Sanjaya Malakar

By soc2006 When former "American Idol" contestant Sanjaya (SANJAYA!) wanted to sing Janis Joplin's "Mercedes Benz," he found himself at an impasse. The "American Idol" reject told Seattle's KISS 106.1 that during American Idol's country week he wanted to sing the Janis Joplin song "Mercedes Benz...

By soc2006 The man with the flowing locks that make my otherwise impressive mane look downright scraggly, admits that his popularity with the ladies has made him a target for teasing in the past. Growing up close to his mother and sister, Sanjaya tells People magazine: "I've always gotten along with...

By harvey The National Enquirer has a piece on how Sanjaya Malakar's mother was once busted for dealing the devil weed. Hot. Malakar's American-born mother, Jillian Blyth, was busted in Pierce County, Wash., in February 2005 after neighbors reported smelling marijuana and noticed a large vent on t...

American Idol"'s centerpiece this year, Sanjaya, apparently had a crap childhood. Sanjaya's world fell apart in October of 1992, when he was just 3 years old - and his sister Shyamali, another Idol contestant, was 5 - after his father, Vasudeva Malakar, 44, filed for divorce from their mo...

By soc2006 On last night's American Idol, Sanjaya's enormous hairdo, which consisted of seven ponytails in a line on his head, was possibly employed as a distraction from the behind-the-scenes tension that was going on between him and Gwen Stefani. Idolator reports that Sanjaya's insistence on p...