British crooner James Blunt, of "Beautiful" fame, was also ready for his own showdown.
The average blog is amateurish, just as the average crooner is no American Idol.
This year, the 300-plus guests included Eddie Murphy, country crooner Kenny Chesney and Transformers director Michael Bay.
"I came because he's a real crooner, one of the best in the world, " said Didier from Paris.
"I gotta remember something--what got me here was Spanish, " says the 24-year-old Iglesias, son of crooner Julio Iglesias.
The crooner competition is not only the highest-rated program on TV, but also the second-most-swapped on traditional BitTorrent networks.
Willie Nelson, a local country crooner, has even started BioWillie, a biofuel firm.
The coiffed Canadian crooner is Twitter's first new king or queen since Gaga dethroned Britney Spears in August 2010.
So did Bernard Tapie, a crooner turned soccer club owner and Socialist minister.
And oh, yes, there's Mario Vazquez, a 27-year-old Bronx-bred crooner who grabbed the spotlight by quitting American Idol in March.
Take the famous Welsh crooner Tom Jones, who is still wowing audiences throughout the U.S. with his wild and raucous stage persona.
"Nothing Would Matter At All" is another high point, where the smooth horns give the song a '50s crooner feel, but with some obvious unique departures.
"I'm on a very long list, which is why we are looking to donors, " said Cole, the daughter of legendary crooner Nat King Cole.
Fellow crooner Tony Christie, who achieved chart success with Is This The Way To Amarillo, described Williams as "a very charming man" who had "perfect pitch".
Jones' early hits, such as "Lightning, " "The Race Is On" and "Root Beer, " were in a high-powered, rockabilly mode, but he found his biggest success as a crooner.
Well-known Latin stars like Marc Anthony, Carlos Vives, Thalia and Shakira were largely ignored in favour of new artists, but Spanish crooner Alejandro Sanz also received four nominations.
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He steered Bieber into lucrative deals spanning records, touring, film and fragrances, even helping the teenage crooner launch a career as a venture capitalist with investments in startups like Spotify and Stamped.
Hannah Montana, which stars the daughter of country crooner Billy Ray Cyrus as a high school pop star who hides her real identity, was the second-most-watched show on cable the week of June 24.
British pop crooner Cliff Richard's relationship with 1976 French Open winner Sue Barker made waves in the early 1980s, while Agassi's brief marriage to American actress Brooke Shields also attracted a deluge of headlines.
Born in Milan in 1936, Berlusconi gave notice early on of his showman side by working as a lounge room crooner aboard a cruise ship to help fund his university tuition -- he studied law.
The amoral Duke is a Sinatra-esque crooner with his own casino and posse of violent henchman (he sings his anthem, "Questa o quella, " with a microphone prop to a sycophantic crowd of dudes and showgirls).
He has talked about re-inventing his image, and the suspicions that he may turn into a Sinatra-style crooner were reinforced when he broke into an impromptu rendition of Ol' Blue Eyes' One For My Baby.
There's no erasing those tabloid photos, like the ones that chronicled the once-blissful pairing of Oscar-winning actress Renee Zellweger and country crooner Kenny Chesney, who wed in the Virgin Islands in May 2005 after a whirlwind courtship.
French actor Alain Delon is a Swiss resident as is crooner-rocker Johnny Halliday, and many other French stars and sportsmen ensure they reside for under six months in France in order to escape being taxed here on their income and capital.
With a knack for signing young artists and locking them up cheaply, the pair worked with acts from Caribbean crooner Billy Ocean to rockers Def Leppard to new wave acts like the Cars to Whodini, one of the first big rap groups.
While she was married to Richard Burton, whom she famously met on the set of Cleopatra while still married to crooner Eddie Fisher (who had left his wife, Debbie Reynolds, for her making them the Jen-Brangelina of their day), Taylor bought a parcel of land in what as then a lonely undeveloped stretch of beach in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
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