Mikalah Gordon

ABOUT MIKALAH GORDON

Singer and presenter who first rose to fame as a competitor on the fourth season of American Idol. She then went on to become a presenter for The Tyra Banks Show, American Idol, and American Idol Extra.

As a child, she would often perform onstage with her father, a jazz musician. Prior to her American Idol audition, she worked at an oxygen bar.

In 2008, she was a contestant on the CMT reality show Gone Country.

Her mother, Victoria Cavaricci, is an Italian American and her father, Rocky Gordon, is Italian and Jewish. Her father was a jazz musician.

On the fourth season of American Idol, she competed against winner Carrie Underwood .