He has guest-starred as a mentor and guest judge on American Idol several times since his season, and has also gotten into acting. In , Adam is still making music by himself and with Queen, as well as acting and participating in activism. He released his fourth studio album, Velvet, in They are planning a European tour for Adam appeared in the comedy Moonbase 8 last fall as well, in a non-musical acting role. He also played a role in Ratatouille the Musical , which was streamed in January.
He also had a cameo in Bohemian Rhapsody , as a truck driver who Freddie Mercury Rami Malek has his first gay experience with.
Adam Lambert was born on January 29, He celebrated his 39th birthday in He was born in Indianapolis, Indiana to his mother Leila, a dental hygienist, and father Eber Lambert, a program manager for Novatel Wireless.
His father is of partial Norwegian descent, and his mother is Jewish, with roots in Romania. Even though, as he told Entertainment Weekly , Lambert thought auditioning for the show was a "long shot" and that he wasn't the right "type" for the show, he decided to take a risk. Since the show stipulated that a contestant couldn't be under an entertainment contract and Lambert was still attached to a production of Wicked at the time, he had to quit his job after his first two auditions in front of the producers went well so he could compete in the televised auditions in front of the American Idol judges.
Fortunately, he nailed that audition and Lambert made it on to the show and came in second place in the show's eighth season. Lambert's big break led to a lot of change.
It was an exciting time, but it also left Lambert "dealing with the personal adjustment I had to make. While Adam Lambert never made a secret of his sexuality, he didn't publicly discuss it on American Idol. Several outlets declared the reason Lambert — an early favorite to win — only came in second was because of homophobia. Lambert told The Guardian that, as the competition progressed, speculation about his sexuality "was becoming bigger" than his singing, which he described as "fundamentally He ended up publicly coming out in a Rolling Stone cover story shortly after the American Idol finale, but his struggle for acceptance was just starting.
His first album, For Your Entertainment , was effectively launched with a performance at the American Music Awards in which he kissed a male member of the band, something that was censored. His label, RCA, was afraid that focus on his sexuality would hurt album sales. Lambert wrote in a Instagram post that "the powers that be" issued an alternative cover for his first album "for retailers who felt 'uncomfortable'" with his preferred cover, in which he said he "was feelin my gender fluid In spite of all of the drama that marked Adam Lambert's early career, he still caught the attention of some pretty notable people.
May said via Louder that he was inundated with messages about Lambert's talent after he performed the Queen song "Bohemian Rhapsody" at his American Idol audition, saying that Lambert was "the natural successor to Freddie [Mercury]" and that Lambert would be the ideal choice to go on tour with Queen as their new frontman.
Lambert first performed with Queen when May and fellow Queen bandmate Roger Taylor were asked to go on American Idol to perform with the finalist. Lambert's chemistry with the band was immediately apparent, and, as noted by Rolling Stone , he performed his first concert with the band in Lambert told Australian radio station Triple M via Blabbermouth that, while he's not trying to replace or "imitate" Freddie Mercury, he is honored to be able "carry on [Mercury's] spirit. Adam Lambert's sound has changed a lot over the course of his career.
His American Idol audition established him as a powerhouse and his first album, For Your Entertainment , was a major hit.
Lambert has slowly moved away from that sound over his career, making a big departure with his third album, The Original High , which The San Diego Union-Tribune praised for its "musical maturity," hailing the album as an "assured, sophisticated and carefully calibrated work.
Lambert told the outlet that the shift in sound was deliberate and that he wanted to move away from the "ridiculous, thematic pop" of his first two albums.
He said that he wanted a sound that was truer to himself that would "connect" with his audience "in a real way" on his third album. Lambert's vocals were noticeably more subdued — but no less powerful — on The Original High , with Lambert saying that he had realized "less is more. Lambert stepped into the national spotlight in , when he became a finalist on the eighth season of the popular vocal competition show American Idol. His performance of Gary Jules's arrangement of "Mad World" earned a standing ovation from the show's harshest critic, Simon Cowell.
Lambert's vocal range, along with his jet-black hair and heavy mascara, earned him comparisons to glam rockers like Freddie Mercury and Gene Simmons. Lambert and two other contestants, Danny Gokey and Kris Allen, were the only finalists of Season 8 who were never ranked in the bottom three. Lambert was considered a frontrunner in the competition, but was later beaten by dark horse candidate Kris Allen. Critics theorized that Lambert lost because of his openly gay lifestyle.
Lambert denies this rumor, however, saying that Allen won because of his talent. In May , Lambert released his second studio album, Trespassing , which met with wide acclaim; Trespassing landed at the No. The artist enjoyed more success with his third album, The Original High Fronted by the dance track "Ghost Town," the album debuted at No.
Lambert, who sang Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" during his audition for American Idol , hit it off with the classic rockers when they all performed together on the finale of the eighth season.
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