Lazaro Arbos Update (March 1st, 2013)

Hey, Lazis! Time for another Lazaro update! So much has happened since our last post, and we're here to update you on it all!

First off, last night on Idol Lazaro sang Keith Urban's song, "Tonight I Wanna Cry." At the end when asked by Ryan Seacrest how he thought he did, Lazaro tried to say what he thought, but end the end finally just said, "Um.. sure, yes." How cute!! Everyone in the crowd erupted with laughter from Lazaro's comment. To watch his performance (in which the angle of the camera suggests Lazaro is a giant and Ryan is a shrimp) you can click the video below:

After all of the contestants had preformed, Lazaro survived the Sudden Death Round and was third to be seated in the stools. The show wasn't filmed live like most people assumed, but actually it was filmed Wednesday night when all of the girls sang. Lazaro gave us a hint that he made it through the competition with this tweet:

Only the Top 20 get new pages made for them, so Lazaro secretly let us all know that he had made it through!! Sneaky little thing ;)

IMPORTANT --- For any of you who have ever been tweeted/RTed/followed by Lazaro on his @lazaromusic account, be SURE you screenshot all of those tweets because in the past Idol has made contestants with previous twitter accounts delete them which means all of Lazaro's old tweets will more than likely be gone! To learn how to screenshot, you can go here. --- IMPORTANT

To follow Lazaro from his new and 100% official twitter page, you can click here. Lazaro will also, more than likely, have a new Facebook account, but nothing has been confirmed about that yet. We would also like to thank Lazaro for following us on his new twitter page too! Thanks, Lazaro! It means SO much to us! :D If you want to follow us on twitter for all the latest updates and facts posted daily about Lazaro, then you can click here -- we even follow back!

That's it for this update! More coming soon! Be sure to tweet Lazaro and give him a big congratulations for making it into the Top 20! It's up to us now guys to keep him in the competition! We have to vote 'till our fingers fall off!!! We'll do the best we can, Lazaro! We love you!!

 Thanks so much for reading everyone! :)

Lazaro On American Idol

Hey everyone! Tonight is the last night of Idol until the official Top 40 are announced! If you're even half as excited as we are then you'd be jumping around like crazy!! We're so excited to see if Lazaro makes it to the Top 40 (and to see him dance at the end of the episode if he does makes it!) We can't wait!

We decided to make a post compiling all of Lazaro's Idol performances so you can get up to date on him just in case you've missed an episode of Idol. There are only four now, but we'll make more update posts as the competition advances. Here we go!!

First off is his audition in which he sang "Bridge Over Troubled Water"

Next, is his first Hollywood week song, "Angels"

Then, Lazaro's group in Group Week when they sang, "Wouldn't It Be Nice"

And finally, after Group Round when Lazaro sang, "Edge of Glory" by Lady Gaga

For now there are only a few, but we'll start making more posts with a compilation of videos from the competition in the weeks to come. Thanks for reading and good luck to Lazaro tonight!

Lazaro Interviews!

Hey everyone! First off, I want to give a big thank you to all of you who have read this blog and followed us on twitter! It means so much to us :) Lazaro also followed us on twitter today and we want to say a HUGE thank you to him as well! We can't wait to see you excel in the competition, Lazaro! We wish you the best of luck!

This post is going to be a list of interviews that Lazaro has done from the time of his audition until now so you can all get to know more about Lazaro. :)

The first interview was an American Idol interview that all Idol contestants who made it to Hollywood did. It's called "Road To Hollywood." Lazaro talks about how he got to sing with Jennifer Hudson and about his love for music. You can click here to watch that :)

The second interview was with NBC Latino where Lazaro talked about his stuttering and his American Idol experience. He looked very handsome, if I do say so myself, wearing a denim colored button-up shirt and purple tie. Click here to view the interview.

And third is a two part interview with Un Nuevo Dia where Lazaro is interviewed about his American Idol experience. Lazaro's parents are also interviewed in the first part as well! Click here to watch Part 1 and here to watch Part 2 :)

Be sure to watch American Idol at 8:00 EST on FOX tonight to see Lazaro continue to compete in the competition during AI's Hollywood week. Good luck, Lazaro! We're rooting for you!!

Thanks for reading! :D

Lazaro Arbos Performances!

Hey everyone! I wanted to share two of Lazaro's performances that I found on YouTube with you all! Enjoy!

The first performance most of you have probably seen, but it was on the Latino show called Aqui Todos Ganan where he sang "Imagine." There is no specific date on the video, but we can guess it was a few years back taking that he looks much younger. Lazaro kills it in this performance which is no different than in any of his other performances. Truly moving!

The second performance was much more recent (around two weeks ago) at a church in Naples, Florida. Lazaro sings a duet of the song "Holy, Holy, Holy (Is The Lord God Almighty)" with singer Jenna Young. In this very beautiful and touching performance, Lazaro is wearing his signature blue button-up shirt that he was seen wearing in his Idol audition. I'm so happy to see Lazaro being very open about his religion as a Christian! He is so inspiring!

I hope you guys enjoyed those performances as much as I did! Be sure to follow us on twitter (@LazaroAFacts) and follow Lazaro also (@lazaromusic)! Thanks for reading :)

Lazaro Arbos | American Idol Season 12

Lazaro Arbos, 21, a native of Cuba who now resides in Florida, blew the nation away last week with his rendition of Simon & Garfunkel’s song “Bridges over Troubled Water”. Arbos may seem like just another face in the crowd, but there is something quite unique about this handsome heart throb – he has a speech impediment that he’s been dealing with for years.

At the age of ten, Lazaro and his family moved to the United States where his stuttering took a turn for the worse. His mother says, “When we got to the US, his stutter got much worse to the point where he couldn’t speak and I had to say everything for him.” Stuttering from the age of six, Lazaro and his family struggled with his speech problem almost all his life. At one point, it was so bad that he couldn’t speak at all. His family says they don’t know where the problem originated. He went through therapy to try to improve his speech, but no improvement showed after much treatment.

Lazaro’s stutter not only affected him at home, but also at school.

“No one wanted to hang out with me in school. Because I had no friends to go out with, I came home,” Lazaro told Idol.   

Although Lazaro has struggled to fit in, he doesn’t let that get him down. He says, “I’ve always taught myself even though it’s not going good now, but you can’t let things get you down ‘cause you have to keep going.”

Despite his impediment, Lazaro found a way to communicate with the people around him – through music. Lazaro’s only form of communication came from his ability to sing.

“Normally when he wouldn’t be able to tell me something because of the stutter, I would just say “Sing it to me. Sing it to me”, his mother says when interviewed on Idol.

Lazaro added, “Ever since I was small, I’ve always wanted to sing.”

Lazaro never gave up on his passion, and that showed tonight as he made it through the next round of the competition receiving a golden ticket to Hollywood. Lazaro’s talent blew the judges away landing him with yeses from all four of the judges. Lazaro’s dream won’t stop here though. America has already fallen in love with him, and his voice! 

We love Lazaro and hope to see him excel in this competition!

What do you think? Will Lazaro make it through the heat of the competition or will he take down all of this other competitors? Find out on the upcoming episodes of Idol continuing next Wednesday (January 30rd) at 8:00 EST.

Original article here