Clay akin biography

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    Singer Clay Aiken was born November 30, 1978 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, but grew up in nearby Raleigh. His parents are Faye Aiken Parker and the late Vernon Grissom.  As a ungdom, he was a member of a local boys choir. During his teen years, Aiken was a member of the local theater community and performed in school theater productions at Leesville High School, including a production of Oklahoma! Aiken also sang several times at Raleigh IceCaps and Carolina Hurricanes hockey games. In addition to pursuing his musical interests, Aiken worked at the local YMCA in Raleigh.  

    Clay Aiken rose to fame in 2003 during the second season of the television series American Idol, taking second place. In the same year, Aiken released his debut album, Measure of a Man (2003), and also earned his bachelor’s degree

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    Clay Aiken

    American singer, actor, producer (born 1978)

    Clayton Holmes Aiken (néGrissom; born November 30, 1978) is an American singer, television personality, actor and political activist. Aiken finished second place on the second season of American Idol in 2003, and his debut album, Measure of a Man, went multi-platinum. He released four more albums on the RCA label, Merry Christmas with Love (2004), A Thousand Different Ways (2006), the Christmas EP All is Well (2006),[2][3] and On My Way Here (2008).[4] Since then he has released two more albums, both with Decca Records: Tried and True (2010) and Steadfast (2012).[5][6] Aiken has also had eleven tours in support of his albums. In all, he has sold over 5 million albums, and is the fourth-highest-selling American Idol alumnus.[7][non-primary source needed]

    Aiken co-wrote a bestselling memoir in 2004, Learning to Sing. In 2004, he

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    Clay Aiken

    The second season of "American Idol" (Fox, 2002-16) proved most noteworthy for the rise of Clay Aiken from nerdy country boy-next-door to unlikely heartthrob on the strength of his powerhouse vocals and charming personality. Overshadowing the season's winner, Ruben Studdard, Aiken enjoyed an enviable string of recording, tour and television success, striking multiplatinum with the album Measure of a Man and hitting No. 1 with "This Is the Night."

    An easy target for his less-than-masculine demeanor and dramatically earnest performing style, Aiken's rise as a good-natured pop culture punch line only incited his fans, the self-proclaimed "Claymates," to defend and promote him all the more ferociously. Even his most passionate fans cooled, however, when he finally quelled career-long rumors by coming out of the closet and simultaneously announcing that he and a platonic female friend were new parents via artificial insemination. As his music industry success waned, Aiken ap