As you can see, I put up a new layout. It looks great. Thanks to May at Beautiful Chaos for making it! Hope you guy like it. I’m thinking of putting up another layout so you can choose which one you want to use, but I’m not sure yet.

There’s a new video that was posted on davidarchuleta.com


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Also, David’s new Christmas CD will be out on October 13th. You can pre-order it here.

David won all three Teen Choice Awards he was nominated for!! Great job voting guys! David posted a new blog two days ago. Here it is.

Hello there to all of you who are reading!

Just another week of updating here. This last week has been pretty interesting since I’ve had the little challenge of trying to perform even though I was struggling with losing my voice. It’s actually been a pretty good learning experience though! I struggled quite a bit the last 3 shows, but what’s interesting is that I loved all 3!
Minneapolis, and then 2 solo shows in Sioux Falls and Milwaukee haha. I think it made me appreciate what I’ve been doing even more, and made me realize the most important thing isn’t blasting away at every high note perfectly. There’s a lot more to music and performing than that, and I need to remember that there’s a connection and feeling in music that doesn’t come by hitting each note technically perfect. I guess I just needed to lose my voice to remember that haha. Anyway, I could go on with that but I probably wouldn’t make any more sense than what I already said .

Wednesday we had our acoustic show, and that was really fun! We just did stripped down versions of the songs, and I think it allowed people to focus more on the music side of things rather than just the energy. It was a really laid back mood too, and I felt really comfortable. It’s definitely something I’d like to do again!

So my buddy Ashlee has come out for a few days!! It’s been fun having a friend here for me (and for everyone else) to hang out with. I had her come on stage the last 2 shows we had in Sioux Falls and Milwaukee to sing for the encore. We sang Lean On Me, which is a song we used to always sing together at home haha. It’s good to have friends who are and have been there for you no matter what changes you may be going through, and who still treat you with the same respect that they had before – even when everyone else is treating you differently haha. But it’s been great singing that song, and it’s a great song that represents a good friendship.

Something that Ashlee, Kendra and I got to go to after the Minneapolis show was the Parachute and The Script concert! Both acts have really great music and are really talented! We got to talk to both bands afterwards, and they were all really nice and cool guys. You never know how people really are until you get to really talk to them and meet them. So when people are genuine and appreciative of what they have even when they’re successful, I find them really admirable and have a lot of respect for them. So it’s cool to see that and feel that energy from them.

So today is a day off in Nashville, and I had a writing session! One of the writers I worked with today, Joy Williams, actually was one of the writers of Waiting For Yesterday. I’ve had one of her songs (Every Moment, great song!) as my song for the day before too. The other talented writers were Matt Bronleewe and Andrew Frohm (sp? haha.) But I had a really good time. It’s so much fun getting to write and be in the studio! I also did some recording for the Christmas album when I had a day off in Minneapolis. I’m looking forward to doing more writing and recording! I really hope you guys like the Christmas stuff. We’ve really been working on trying to have the songs be heartfelt and have that spirit of Christmas in them. So I hope you guys like it! Well I have a bunch of people waiting for me to come join them dinner, so I’m gonna eat some food now! So ciao as I chow down haha.

Song for the day: She Is Love – Parachute

Hey guys! The Teen Choice Awards was filmed last night at Gibson Theater. Sadly, David couldn’t make it because he was busy doing a show, but be sure to watch tonight (August 10) at 8 PM on FOX. David was nominated for 3 awards. Let’s hope he won all three!! The results are already out but I’ll wait to post them after the show is over. Go David!!

David Archuleta is sending his love and sympathies to David Cook after news broke that the 2008 “American Idol” winner’s older brother, Adam, died of cancer over the weekend.

“It really struck me when I heard about the news of Cook’s brother,” Archuleta said in a statement. “I know they had been struggling with it for a while, so my heart really goes out to them.”

Adam, 37, had been battling brain cancer for over a decade, and Cook often paid tribute to his brother on the show. In his statement, Archuleta continued, “It’s so admirable the way he’s handling it, though, and it’s amazing to see him there as an example for millions of other people who have also been affected the same way he and his family have. I’ll be keeping him in my thoughts and prayers, and hope the Cook family stays strong.”

On Sunday at the 12th annual Race for Hope 5K run in Washington, D.C., where Cook served as grand marshal just a day after his brother died, Cook told the crowd, “I actually lost my brother yesterday to a brain tumor, and I couldn’t imagine being anywhere else right now. I lost one today, but I gained 9,000, and I will be here every year that they will have me.”

“Idol” judge Paula Abdul told People that Adam Cook was part of the show’s “extended family,” saying he “supported his brother wholeheartedly, even through his own fight. My heart goes out not only to David, but his family as well.”

Fellow judge Simon Cowell also had kind words for the family, telling the magazine, “I was incredibly saddened to hear the news. I met Adam Cook a few times at ‘American Idol.’ He was an incredible guy, and right now my thoughts are with David and his family.”

Source: vh1.com