Sanjaya Malakar American Idol Season 6 Contestant Sanjaya Malakar Profile Fame is definitely not only for those who wins a competition as another Idol set off his career in singing after his cast off in American Idol. Sanjaya Malakar, a 17-year-old male whose passion in singing brought him in Hollywood. He came from a musical family because his Bengali Indian father is a classical Indian musician while his mother is an Italian American. He has two other siblings named Shyamali, who also auditioned for the contest but sent off at the end of the round and a younger brother. This guy was typically recognized because of his hairstyle everytime he performs on stage. Even the American Idol host Ryan Seacrest came out the next day and imitated his fauxhawk hairstyle, which was his hairdo during one of his performance. Sanjaya was one of the best things that ever happened to the history of American Idol, a reason why Simon Cowell misses him even though the eminent judge has problems regarding Sanjaya’s vocals. After his Idol career, Sanjaya attended several affairs such as a White House correspondent’s dinner in Washington D.C and even appeared on talk shows like CBS’s Late Show with David Letterman and on Live with Regis and Kelly. Within a few weeks of performing and being “boring” as Cowell commented, Sanjaya now is busy giving autographs in his own fans. American Idol Season 6 Contestant Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 6466378 bytes) in /mounted-storage/home41c/sub005/sc31085-BZAP/sanjayasworld.com/cutenews/inc/functions.inc.php on line 430