Constantine James Maroulis (born September 17, 1975 in Brooklyn, New York) is an Constantine Maroulis Tickets American rock singer, actor, and writer who was the lead vocalist of the hard rock band Pray for the Soul of Betty and the sixth-place finalist on the fourth season of the Constantine Maroulis Tickets popular reality television series American Idol. He was eliminated from American Idol on April 27, 2005.
Maroulis was born in Brooklyn to Greek American parents, James Constantine Maroulis and Constantine Maroulis Tickets Constance P. Maroulis (born 1938). Both maternal and paternal grandparents immigrated to the States from Greece in the 1920s. He was brought up in the Greek Orthodox Constantine Maroulis Tickets religion, and he can speak Greek. His older brother, Athan Maroulis (born 1964), is a record producer and his sister, Anastacia P. Maroulis (born 1968), is a New York / New Jersey schoolteacher.
When Maroulis was five years old his Constantine Maroulis Tickets family moved to Wyckoff, New Jersey, an affluent suburb of New York City, where he grew up. At that time he developed an interest in music, following the Constantine Maroulis Tickets lead of his older brother.
By age eleven he was Constantine Maroulis Tickets studying the trumpet at Eisenhower Middle School.
He later sang in high school garage bands, including Lady Rain and Milkbone. He graduated from Ramapo High School in 1993 and later Constantine Maroulis Tickets attended the The Boston Conservatory of Music. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Musical Theater from The Boston Conservatory of Music and a minor in voice from the Berklee College of Music in 2002.
He was in the Constantine Maroulis Tickets cast recording of the 2000 musical, Suburban Dreams, which was produced by composer Stephen Thompson, Richard Kenner, and Jesse Merz.
Some years before appearing on Idol, Maroulis competed on the dating show Elimidate and was Constantine Maroulis Tickets an extra in NBC's Law and Order: SVU and the WB's Astro Boy.
He has appeared in a number of off-Broadway roles from the Conservatory, along with a Constantine Maroulis Tickets series of independent films. After graduating the Conservatory, Maroulis trained as a director's apprentice at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts and toured in the Broadway international touring company of Rent as the lead role Roger Davis. His role as Roger was Constantine Maroulis Tickets non-equity. Since he had no agent representing him, he was allowed to appear on American Idol. After American Idol Maroulis was briefly represented by the Creative Artists Agency, but as of October 2006, he is no longer represented Constantine Maroulis Tickets by the agency. As of 2006, Constantine has created his own independent label, Sixth Place Records, a branch of Sixth Place Productions, which hopes to release his debut solo album in 2008.
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