Soon after Karen Rodriguez was eliminated from Season 10 in twelfth place, the bubbly American Idol finalist hopped on a press call. She opened up about being a bilingual singer, Jennifer Lopez, and the road ahead.
Karen's favorite moment of her Idol experience was the "fact that I got to record 'I Could Fall in Love' and it's selling on iTunes. Just to be able to look up my name and something comes up out of it. You know, 'I Could Fall in Love' is sung by my idol, Selena. She's the reason I began singing...I was five or six years old and she really inspired me. Her life was taken away so fast and she never got to see her song progress. And just to be able to perform it on live television and have people buy it off of iTunes and have people tweet me and tell me, 'I love your version. You're making Selena proud.' That's what I wanted to achieve. I wanted to keep her memory alive, and I wanted to just let people know that Latinos are back, basically. So I'm just very happy about that."
The 22-year-old made it known that she's a big fan of judge Jennifer Lopez, ... read more
Source: "American Idol 10 Live Feed" via Glen in Google Reader
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