Taylor Hicks News & Pictures

Taylor Hicks performs “Dancing in the Dark”
It was a rainy Independence Day in Washington, but that didn’t stop Taylor Hicks from putting on his dancing shoes. The American Idol Season 5 champ headlined the A Capitol Fourth celebration, hosted by actor Jimmy Smits, in the Nation’s Capitol Friday night. Peep these vids of Taylor’s crowd-pleasing [...]

American Idol 5 winner Taylor Hicks and the cast of the Broadway production of Grease performed Taylor’s number from the show, “Beauty School Dropout,” on Friday’s Live with Regis & Kelly. Taylor will star as “Teen Angel” in the hit musical until September.

Taylor Hicks is headed for the Great White Way. The grey-haired crooner, who won the fifth season of American Idol, will join the Broadway cast of Grease on June 6, The Associated Press reports.

In December, American Idol Season 2 winner Ruben Studdard was released from label home J Records after just three albums. Now soulful Season Five winner Taylor Hicks has been dumped by the prestigious label.

Taylor Hicks, winner of last season’s American Idol has agreed to settle a lawsuit he’s filed against a Nashville producer who apparently sold his songs he’d recorded prior to his American Idol victory.
Court documents filed Tuesday in a federal court explain Hicks now owns all the rights to the master recordings of his songs, [...]