Meet KARA DioGuardi : The New AMERICAN IDOL judge ! | SEASON 8 | FOX TV
January 17th, 2009 | by admin |
Singer/songwriter Kara DioGuardi talks about herself ! |AMERICAN IDOL JUDGE
Kara Elizabeth DioGuardi (born December 9, 1970) is an American songwriter, record producer, and singer who has contributed to a long list of internationally successful popular songs. She writes music in the light pop-rock genre. She will be a judge on the eighth season of American Idol. DioGuardi has worked with Celine Dion, David Archuleta, Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, and Paula Abdul, American Idol’s other female judge.
In 2003, DioGuardi won a BMI Cable Award for cowriting and performing, Somethin’ To Say, the theme to the now-cancelled Lifetime Television series For the People, which starred Lea Thompson, Debbi Morgan, A. Martinez and Cecilia Suarez. In 2007, she was named BMI’s “Pop Songwriter of the Year” for 2006, as she had accumulated 10 BMI awards in the previous four years for having written the “most performed songs on the radio”. To date, she has had over 46 albums in the Top 10 on Billboard magazine’s 200 album chart. Her songs are on various hit albums that have altogether sold over 100 million copies.
In 2007, DioGuardi was nominated for a Latin Grammy in the category of Best Song for her writing on the Belinda single, “Bella Tracion” along with co-writers Belinda, Mitch Allan, Ben Moody and Nacho Peregrin. In November of 2007, Kara was awarded the TAXI AR award for Humanitarian of the Year at their annual Road Rally Convention
DioGuardi co-owns Arthouse Entertainment, a publishing company that is a resource business for record companies and other music entities seeking compositions, productions, artists, and related music services. Arthouse has been a part of many chart-topping hits including Cassie’s “Me U” (written and produced by Ryan Leslie), Jim Jones’ “We Fly High” (written and produced by Zukhan Bey), Nick Lachey’s “What’s Left of Me”, David Archuleta’s hit single “Crush” (written and produced by Eman Kiriakou), Mika’s “Grace Kelly” and also OneRepublic’s “Apologize” and “Stop and Stare” (all produced by Greg Wells), and Faith Hill’s “Lost” (written and produced by Kara DioGuardi and Mitch Allan).
DioGuardi continues to work with the Phoenix House, a non-profit substance abuse service organization. She contributes to recording studios in the facilities and helps teach the teens how to operate the equipment. (www.phoenixhouse.org)
In July 2006, DioGuardi was a judge in an “Idol”-like show called “The One: Making a Music Star.” The show debuted on ABC with the second-lowest rating ever for a premiere on a major American network and was abruptly canceled after just two weeks.
She will join the hit FOX television show American Idol as a fourth judge starting in the show’s 8th season (January 2009). In 2000, DioGuardi co-wrote (with fellow Idol judge Paula Abdul) the UK number-one single “Spinning Around”, performed by Kylie Minogue. She has written many songs sung by Idol winners and alumni such as Kelly Clarkson, David Archuleta, Carrie Underwood, and Katharine McPhee. When asked how she will do as a judge, Dave Stewart said: “I think it’s gonna be good, because Kara has always been dealing with artists who are just starting out, or young artists. And she’s an amazing singer, so she can tell straightaway if somebody’s got it.”
http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara_DioGuardi
26 Responses to “Meet KARA DioGuardi : The New AMERICAN IDOL judge ! | SEASON 8 | FOX TV”
By guitarman069 on Jan 20, 2009 | Reply
MILF alert!
By guitarman069 on Jan 20, 2009 | Reply
Please get rid of that boring new judge..shes like a wannabe simon…trying so hard to look all tough cuz shes on camera.but guess what shes one of those singer rejects long time ago, she didnt become real famous. keep it to just randy,paula and simon.its just too much arguing and bitching.
By iamthebilestoad on Jan 21, 2009 | Reply
she’s lame.
jealous whore
boring as hell.
writes shit songs for lame artists
are you a ‘tard or 9 years old?
By coleloverforever345 on Jan 22, 2009 | Reply
Yup. To me i think she brags to much about her self!!!!
By MayIMayhem on Jan 26, 2009 | Reply
Someone shoot this bitch please!
She talks bullshit on american idol
By LysetteOne on Jan 27, 2009 | Reply
Based on that clip, I don’t like her either. And her lips are odd. Too much lip plumper.
By coleloverforever345 on Jan 29, 2009 | Reply
I dont really like her and i NEVER heard of her before! now please dont be mad at me just because i do not like her!
By karen101101101 on Jan 31, 2009 | Reply
i like her!
By incrediblyinsane on Feb 1, 2009 | Reply
jeeez everyone’s being so harsh.
i think she’s cool.
O_o
By mrbh1984 on Feb 2, 2009 | Reply
she’s crap
By operations1000 on Feb 2, 2009 | Reply
Ok so I lost all credibility with that last comment, continue your Kara flaming….
By operations1000 on Feb 3, 2009 | Reply
I’d eat her shit.
By operations1000 on Feb 4, 2009 | Reply
Leave Kara alone! Everyone has their akward judge moments jeeez you noobs obviously forgot Season one. The rest have a flow, let her get adjusted.
and she’s HOT and co-write alot of Kelly Clarkson song’s so she’s all good in my book!
She’s a decent singer too, fuck that bikini model..she was funny last night besides that akward humorous in HS thing, when the black guy came with all that energy she was hilarious!
By EndlessDark16 on Feb 4, 2009 | Reply
Definitely meaner than simon. Simon is just brutally honest, but funny at the same time about it. True, he can go a bit overboard at times, but that’s just him being TOO honest.
But this Kara girl is just a plain b****. My family loves American Idol and we all say that Kara ruins the show now.
By RmStriker17 on Feb 10, 2009 | Reply
yea, that was even meaner than simon
By grumpygrunger223 on Feb 12, 2009 | Reply
i think american idol was better when this annoying bitch came along
By chipmunkmileycyrus on Feb 13, 2009 | Reply
Simon is da freaking man! he says it like it is!
don’t yu denyy it! (:
simon is still the best judge. Randy is pretty cool, he’s my homedoggg XD kiddin…
paula and miss new judge r annoying! ahh
By EndlessDark16 on Feb 16, 2009 | Reply
I absolutely hate her. She ruins the show. And she’s a b****!!!
“She was voted most humorous in high school”
By ohi8ofan on Feb 18, 2009 | Reply
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By daveylover4ever on Feb 20, 2009 | Reply
she thinks shes all that… pretty boring with her on idol…. the show was more entertaining before she came
By merocket on Feb 22, 2009 | Reply
she’s annoying bitch and needs to fix her lips
By idontneedthis15 on Feb 22, 2009 | Reply
Oh my damn
jeez this girl just makes me wanna slap a hoe..
OH SHUT THE *hell* UP
By idontneedthis15 on Feb 23, 2009 | Reply
OMG u are so damn right she’s so irritating
By Karma is a b!T(H on Feb 23, 2009 | Reply
Kara is boring… the show was so much better without her. I stopped watching it because of her.
By iamthebilestoad on Feb 24, 2009 | Reply
EVIL JABBERING BITCH
I I I I I I I I
what a fuckin’ bore.
disgusting american ME FIRST bitches.
By parislejean on Mar 5, 2009 | Reply
someone needs to tell her to stop banging her hands on the table, it’s so damn annoying hearing her pounding after every singer. she gets on my nerves bad!!!!!!!