Most celebrity memoirs, especially ones from young stars, read like superficial, thrown-together works. But Chords of Strength is something different: It genuinely captures David's voice, in both its content and its cadence.
Reading the book is like listening to him speak. The book spends as much time on the way David views life as it does with his personal history.
American Idol weaves through the story on many levels -- attending the first season's finale shows, meeting future contestants Joelle James (a Season 6 semi-finalist) and Tori Kelly (a Hollywood contestant during Season 9) while competing on Star Search and, of course, his time on the show.
David also discusses his vocal paralysis at length. While he was on Star Search, David was diagnosed as having one working vocal cord and one that was paralyzed, a condition that forced him to stop singing publicly for a while.
Though he eventually regained his voice, he learned the true extent of his condition during his Idol run.
"The one vocal cord, it seemed, had actually grown up over and around the weak one in order to adjust for the other one not working," he writes.
The book several lists, such as favorite artists, interviews and Idol memories. David also offers a musical appendix listing several of his favorite songs, which range from Mariah Carey's Butterfly to Led Zeppelin's Kashmir.
It's hard to imagine one of David's fans not enjoying Chords of Strength. It would also be instructive for aspiring singers considering the talent-competition route, since David goes into great detail about the things in his life that prepared him for Idol and his thought processes and biggest challenges during the show.
Story courtesy of USA Today.
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A memoir at 19? How much can he say about life? This has got to be what? 20 pages or so in length. There's probably more pictures than stories. I wonder if he even wrote it - not that it matters. I'm sure all the little girls and boys will buy it for the pretty pictures.
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