Sanjaya Malakar

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Sanjaya says that he doesn't get embarrassed.

Sanjaya's friends never get surprised by his musical choices.

His life goal is to become witty.

If Sanjaya does not win American Idol, he will continue his career in the music business.

Besides singing, Sanjaya is also very talented in culinary arts.

Sanjaya has had formal singing training.

Sanjaya started to sing once he stopped crying.

Sanjaya can flip the sides of his lips.

Sanjaya was born with brown hair and brown eyes and he has never changed his hair color.

Sanjaya's favorite female artists are Lauryn Hill and Susan Tedeschi.

Sanjaya's favorite male artists are Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson.

Sanjaya # for auditioning was 80283 .

Sanjaya is a lot more outgoing then his sister Shyamali .

Sanjaya sang Signed Sealed Delivered when auditioning in Seattle .

Right now Sanjaya is known as the 'ultra-sensitive Indian boy,' but he wants to break out of that nickname further into the season.

Sanjaya is very funny he always makes his family laugh with his funny and random jokes.

Sanjaya is Indian.

When Sanjaya tried out for the competition he was 17 years old and his sister Shyamali was 19.

Sanjaya made it into the top 24!

Sanjaya made it into the top 40.

Sanjaya is 2 years younger then his sister Shyamali Malakar.

Sanjaya is 5 inches taller then his sister.

Sanjaya has a couple of fan sites already and its only been about 3 episodes into American Idol .

Sanjaya credits both his dad and mom with influencing his music. His father may have given the American Idol contestant his voice, but his mother surrounded him with music his entire life from the time he was born till now!

Sanjaya went Shorecrest High School in Shoreline, Washington for 1 year before transferring to Todd Beamer High School in Federal Way.

As Sanjaya walked out of the room just finding out he had made it to the next level, he realized that his sister Shyamali Malakar had not made it. He immediately dropped to the floor crying telling his sister everything was going to be OK.

The 3 judges loved him way more then his sister but he didn't tell her that he just said that they liked him.