Seventeen-year-old Sanjaya Malakar auditions (along with older sister, Shyamali) in Seattle for a spot on American Idol's sixth season, and offers the first flash of his megawatt smile after earning praise from Simon & Co. for his pleasingly restrained rendition of ''Signed, Sealed, Delivered.'' What hath the judges wrought?
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Sanjaya's Photo Album
Twelve moments that made Sanjaya Malakar the unlikeliest of household names, from the auditions to Hollywood to the debut of the Pohawk, and, in the end, a former teen ''Idol''
| Apr 20, 2007
Michael Slezak
