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Brooke Elizabeth White (born June 2, 1983) is an American indie pop/folk-pop singer-songwriter and actress from Mesa, Arizona who was the fifth place finalist on the seventh season of American Idol.
In 2005, White released her first studio album, called Songs from the Attic.
White's first post-Idol album High Hopes & Heartbreak was released on July 21, 2009.
The first single "Hold Up My Heart" was released on February 25, 2009, and the song debuted at number 47 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The second single "Radio Radio" was released on June 23, 2009.
She is also half of the duo Jack and White.Early lifeBrooke Elizabeth White was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and raised in nearby Mesa, with three younger siblings (Katie, Tyler, and Quinn) and her parents, Brad and Kaylene, and is of English descent.
She also has family members in Nova Scotia, Canada.Personal lifeWhite started singing at 16, when she tried out for the high school musical, Meet Me in St.
Louis, and earned the lead role.
White was graduated from Heritage Academy high school in 2001.
She, at one time, attended beauty school, and described herself as a "beauty school dropout," and shared on Idol that she started doing hair when she was eleven years old.
White moved to Los Angeles, California when she was nineteen years old where she attended the Musicians Institute for three months and then spent the next four years honing her craft as a singer-songwriter recording in the studio and performing in the clubs of Hollywood, California under the guidance of Tim Simms.
White also spent a year as a nanny for twin baby girls.
During her elimination video on American Idol, White stated "It's probably not a secret that I struggled with my own confidence but I'm stronger than I thought I was and that's a great thing to get out of this." White currently resides in Van Nuys, California, with her husband, David Ray.
White is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
White and her husband have one daughter, London, born on May 24, 2012 in Los Angeles, California.OverviewWhite auditioned for American Idol, in Philadelphia, where she sang "Like a Star" and received positive reviews from all of the judges.
During her audition, she admitted to never having seen an R-rated movie, which prompted Cowell to state that he could "bring her over to the dark side." During Hollywood week, White performed "Beautiful", by Carole King, and accompanied herself on piano.
After that performance, judges commented that White reminded them of a young Carly Simon or Carole King.In the live rounds of the competition, White accompanied herself on guitar for her performances of "You're So Vain", "Jolene", and "I'm a Believer" and on piano for "Let It Be", "Every Breath You Take", "Hero" and "I Am...I Said".
Judge Simon Cowell chose White early as one of his four favorites in the competition when he appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show on March 17, 2008.During the 1970s theme week, while White performed "You're So Vain", by Carly Simon, she stared at Simon Cowell.
It caught the judges' attention and received good reviews from them.
White performed an acoustic version of "Love Is a Battlefield" by Pat Benatar, in the next week to good reviews, as well.
During the Lennon–McCartney week, she performed "Let It Be", a classic song by The Beatles.
Randy Jackson said it was a very heartfelt performance and Simon Cowell said that it was believable and one of the best of the night and that he thought that Brooke had picked good song choices in the past three weeks.Andrew Lloyd Webber, who served as guest mentor for a show, based on his own music, was particularly impressed by White and predicted a big night for her.
However, three lines into her performance of "You Must Love Me", White apologized, stopped the band and restarted the song from the beginning.
She later explained, "I lost the lyric." Simon Cowell stated that he would have done the same thing, had he been in her situation.
It was the first time in the show's history that a contestant restarted a performance from a point so far into the song.
(White had previously restarted "Every Breath You Take", after a single odd note.) Despite this, she was the third contestant to be named safe on the subsequent results show, while Carly Smithson went home.When White performed "I'm a Believer" and "I Am...I Said", during Neil Diamond week, she personalized the latter, at Diamond's own suggestion, by changing the lyrics from "I'm New York City born and raised" to "I'm Arizona born and raised."White was in the bottom three three times, once on April 2 after performing Dolly Parton's song "Jolene", again on April 16 after performing Mariah Carey's "Hero", and when she was eliminated on April 30, 2008 after performing "I'm a Believer" and "I Am...I Said".Performances/results^1 White was saved first from elimination.^2 When Ryan Seacrest announced the results for this particular night, White was among the Bottom 3 but declared safe second, when Kristy Lee Cook was eliminated.Songs from the Attic (2005)White's debut album, Songs from the Attic, was released nationwide in the US by the independent record label New Millennium Records Group, in 2005, and was produced and co-written by Tim Simms.
Songs from the Attic is a full length 11 song album which contains some of White's first songs that she ever wrote and recorded.
The album also contains cover versions of Aerosmith's "Dream On" and Coldplay's "Yellow".
White's first music video was from a song off Songs from the Attic, entitled, "Free", which was directed by Braden Barty and produced by Tim Simms.
In the video, she acts out her story as a beauty school dropout who moves to Hollywood to pursue a singing career.
Songs from the Attic was re-released, after White was eliminated from American Idol.High Hopes & Heartbreak (2009-2011)On January 31, White announced that she signed with Sanctuary Artist Management, instead of earlier reported Sanctuary Records.
She also announced that the title of her new album would be called High Hopes & Heartbreak.
On February 25, 2009, White released her first single, "Hold Up My Heart," written entirely by White.
The song featured a piano riff that repeated throughout with a mid-tempo beat.
White returned to American Idol to perform her debut single, on the February 26 results show and played the keyboard to accompany the song.
White announced, on May, 2009, that she started her own record label "June Baby Records", with Randy Jackson, and her first post-Idol album, High Hopes & Heartbreak, would be available July 21, 2009.
The second single off the album "Radio Radio" was available on iTunes on June 23.
The album was originally supposed to be dropped on June 2, 2009, but was postponed to release a little more than two months later, as said in White's blog entry for the 15th of May.
White held a live webcast at 5PM PST, on the 9th of July, 2009, and announced that she had teamed up with iTunes and her album High Hopes & Heartbreak was to be exclusively digitally released from the iTunes Store on the July 14, as well as the music video of her second single Radio Radio to be available for downloads free on the same date.
During the webcast, she performed 3 songs on her album, including her single "Radio Radio", her cover of Use Somebody originally by the Kings of Leon and the title track off her album, "High Hopes & Heartbreak", all performed with her on the keyboard.
A 'backstage pass' was also released in connection with The Republic Project, which allows purchasers to receive and view behind-the-scenes videos of the making of High Hopes & Heartbreak.
10 lucky purchasers of the backstage pass were chosen to attend the live webcast, in Los Angelos, which streamed live on July 9 on Facebook and uStream.
A Live Session EP was released on the October 13, 2009, exclusively on the iTunes Store.
It consisted of five songs recorded live during her summer tour with fellow 'Idol' mate Michael Johns and Benton Paul.
The five songs included three acoustic and piano versions from "High Hopes & Heartbreak", a cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Rhiannon" and a personal song that White wrote, "Take it Away."Jack and White - Gemini (2011)Brooke White partnered up with singer-songwriter Jack Matranga to form a duo Jack and White.
They released a six-song EP entitled Gemini.
They got together initially to write songs for her new solo album but ended up releasing an EP together.Jack and White Winter (2012)White and Jack Matranga teamed up for the second time on a new EP titled Winter, released on January 24, 2012, included four original tracks and a live acoustic version of "Telephone Games." The first single was "Night After Night."Brooke White Christmas (2012)White's first Christmas album was released in 2012 on Jane Baby Records featuring eleven tracks including "Blue Christmas" and "Silent Night."Musical influencesWhite cites her musical influences as the "soulful sounds of the 70s", such as the Carpenters, Carole King, Fleetwood Mac, James Taylor, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, the Eagles, America, Carly Simon, the Bee Gees, Hall & Oates, Joni Mitchell, Bonnie Raitt and Phil Collins.
When asked on American Idol with whom she would like to do a duet, she named John Mayer as her choice for a modern artist.
She also says that, if she could choose a partner for a "dream duet", she would choose Carole King, whom she cites as one of her main influences.
She also cites Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood as her favorite former American Idol winners.
Carly Simon, one of the singers who inspired White, said publicly that her favorite contestant on Idol was Brooke.
She was impressed with White's performance of "You're So Vain" and said that she thought, "Oh my God, this girl is so talented and she sings the song so much better than I ever did or ever could."ActingWhite starred in a Fox TV movie titled "Change of Plans", which aired on January 8, 2011.
She wrote and performed three songs for the movie, "Something Beautiful", "Let Us Live As One", and "Love Lovin' You".
Brooke starred in Hallmark Movie Channel TV movie titled "Banner 4th of July", which aired on June 29, 2013.