American Idol’s Allison Iraheta is not a Filipino
I’ve been getting a lot of visits here in my blog for the search keywords “Allison Iraheta” + “Filipino”. For those of you who don’t know, Allison Iraheta (pronounced ay-ra-hee-tah) is one of the youngest contestants at 16 years old who made it to the Top 36.
She looks like a Filipina and her surname sounds like one but she isn’t. She auditioned in San Francisco but she’s originally from Los Angeles and is of Hispanic origin. I was able to verify this from her Myspace page before the contents were removed (which is a policy of AI). But there’s still Google’s cache.
Anyhow, she’s been singing since 5 and has joined and won a singing reality show, Quinceañera, on Telemundo in 2006. Let’s find out in the upcoming weeks if she can compete with the other girls.
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Filed under: American Idol
Alison FAN’S sites
http://www.myspace.com/452854816
http://www.myspace.com/452526676
Iraheta is a Basque name
She’s from El Salvador The last name is from Spain The Family migrated to el salvador and then migrated to and now the family is scattered through out el salvador Honduras spain and i believe maybe Germany
we’re from the same family