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Bo Bice: In the Beginning on "America Idol"

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Huntsville-born singer Bo Bice is burning up the stage on the 2005 "American Idol" show. In fact, this 29 year old Alabamian, nicknamed "Bo" by his grandmother because she thought he looked like Humphrey Bogart, stood out from the other contestants with his amazing voice, charisma and quiet-confident stage presence. Bo Bice's music influences are blues, rock, folk and country. He went on to come in second place for the 2005 "American Idol" title.

His mother, Nancy Downes of Covington, Georgia praises her son as an "all-round nice guy." Recently Bo Bice was on his way to see her, driving from Alabama to Georgia. Bice suddenly got a phone call from someone at his New Hope Presbyterian Church in Pelham, who told him that a church member's little newborn grandson had died. Bo turned around and went back home, wrote a song and sang at the funeral and gave the grieving parents a copy of song on a CD.

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