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David Cook Profile |
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Birth Date: December 20, 1982
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Birth Place: Houston, Texas, USA
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Birth Name: David Roland Cook
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Height: 6'2"
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Biography |
David Cook (born December 20, 1982) is an American
singer-songwriter and musician, and is a finalist on the
seventh season of American Idol. He currently lives in
Tulsa, Oklahoma but was raised in Blue Springs, Missouri, a
suburb of Kansas City, Missouri. He is not related to former
fellow Idol contestant Kristy Lee Cook.
Cook was born in Houston, Texas and raised in Blue Springs,
Missouri. Cook's interest in music began early in life; he
received his first guitar at the age of 2. He began singing
in second grade, when his elementary school music teacher
gave him a solo in a school choir performance. He proceeded
to perform in virtually every Christmas and PTA program. He
also participated in choir and drama programs in middle
school and high school. At Blue Springs South High School,
he performed in musicals, including The Music Man, West Side
Story, and Singin' in the Rain. He earned a theater
scholarship to the University of Central Missouri, but he
abandoned theater after two semesters, graduating from the
school in 2006 with a degree in graphic design. While in
college, he was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa. After his
college graduation, he relocated to Tulsa to pursue his
career in music, telling his family, "I just want to give
myself until I'm 26 years old to get a job."
Cook was the lead singer and guitarist of the band Axium
from 1999 until 2006. He formed Axium in his junior year of
high school with drummer Bobby Kerr. One of the band's
songs, "Hold," was picked up by AMC Theatres Movie Tunes and
was played before previews on over 20,000 screens
nationwide. Axium was also named one of the top 15
independent bands in the country in the "Got Milk?"
independent band contest, and it was chosen as the best band
in Kansas City in 2004.
In 2006, after the breakup of Axium, Cook relocated to
Tulsa, Oklahoma, and joined the regional touring band
Midwest Kings, playing guitar, bass, and singing backup
vocals. He recorded one EP, Incoherent with Desire to Move
On, with the band in 2006. He also worked as a bartender at
several Tulsa clubs, including Blank Slate and Rehab Lounge.
Cook released a solo independent album, Analog Heart, in
2006, the year he graduated from the college. It was written
from 2004 to 2006, and he designed the artwork as well. The
album was chosen as the fourth-best CD released in 2006 by
website Music Equals Life. Cook also won the Urban Tulsa
Weekly's "Absolute Best of Tulsa" award for "Best Locally
Produced, Independent Album" in 2007. He had completed
recording his sophomore album before his appearance on
American Idol. Over the weekend of April 18 to April 20,
2008, Analog Heart was listed as the number one album for
"Today's Top MP3 Albums" on Amazon.com. Soon thereafter, the
album was removed from Amazon. |
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Other Information |
Favorite quote is "Pain don't hurt" from the Patrick Swayze
movie Road House.
Is not related to Kristy Lee Cook.
Refers to himself as a "word nerd" owing to his love of word
puzzles. |
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since May 4, 2008