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Top 10 contestant on season six of American Idol

PERFORMANCES:
Queen, "I Want To Break Free" (audition)
Savage Garden, "I Want You"
David Bowie, "Life ON Mars"
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, "Bad Reputation"
Jesus Christ Superstar, "Superstar"
Creedence Clearwater Revival, "Have You Ever Seen The Rain?"
T-Rex, "20th Century Boy"
ABBA, "S.O.S." (eliminated week 7)

played by: Logan Lerman.
voice sounds like: Tony Vincent.

BIOGRAPHY
What do you get when you mix a music teacher spending her last week of vacation before classes at Walt Disney World and an aspiring animator in a condo no more than a stone's throw from the resort? Not much of a surprise, if you happen to be Kimberly and Richard Doyle. After a brief, passionate courting, the couple happily married and brought their first and only child into the world on July 24th, 1991. Not a single member of their family batted an eyelash when, at the tender age of two-and-a-half, their boy announced that he wanted to become a superstar.

Robin Doyle started his "career" early; by the time he entered elementary school, he had taken part in many children's community theatre performances and was already working his way up to starring roles. Through both the plays and his class, making friends was an astoundingly easy feat for him. In the neighborhood, Disneyland passes were about as common as anything, so Robin and his friends practically grew up inside the parks. In fact, it took a lot of reminding (and disappointment, once he figured it out for himself) for the boy to remember that he did not actually live in Disney World. Did all the hard work pay off? Of course not. To this day, Robin still tells people he meets that his house is the topmost apartment in Cinderella's Castle.

When Robin was thirteen, his father was offered a job as a Disney Imagineer and, through the promotion, the Doyles were able to move from their cozy apartment to a larger, single family home in Celebration, Florida. Throughout elementary school, no one minded Robin's taste for the theatrical or his natural flamboyance. On the contrary, his parents seemed to encourage it. Unfortunately, although the move didn't take them very far from their old home, Robin had to change middle schools. Leaving his friends behind was a sad side effect, but he felt positive about the new ones he would make. Until, that is, his first day of classes. What his former classmates had regarded as talent and charm was now considered an embarrassment and - that ever-popular, teenage word - "gay" by others. Apparently, there ought to have been a huge personality shift between sixth and seventh grade, but no one gave Robin the memo. Nor would he have followed its instructions if he had received it. As far as he could tell, there was nothing wrong with the way he was. So, he met each day with a stiff upper lip, but an unrepressable smile on his face.

Despite continuing ridicule from the larger part of the student body, he managed to loosely secure friendship with a few kids from his choir and drama classes. He became, or so he thought, especially close to one boy and, before he knew it, they were almost unofficially dating. Since his parents never bothered to lecture him, one way or the other, on the subject of sexuality, being gay was another thing Robin couldn't find the wrong in. His almost-boyfriend seemed to feel the same way until, one day after school, a few girls caught them kissing behind the lockers. The next day, everyone knew and he was back down to having zero friends. Even the teachers seemed to turn the other way when names like "queer" and "fag" were being tossed at him, during class. It took three months into his eighth grade year, a torn, dirty shirt, and a bloody lip for him to finally admit to his parents what was going on. Almost immediately and without qualms, his mother pulled him out of school and set him up on an independent study program.

Thankfully, with the pressures and confines of public school out of the way, Robin had more time to devote to his one true love: music. He attended - sometimes even helped out in - the classes his mother taught and began stealing all the lead roles in the Celebration Players Community Theatre musical productions. Finally, once again, he was comfortable and happy with the way his life was headed. Dropping out of public school had been a big risk to take, but it was paying off. This lead him to believe that any chance that might yield amazing results was worth taking, so the summer after his freshman year of high school, he began begging his parents to let him try out for American Idol.

The closest audition location, that year, was in Birmingham Alabama. At first, his parents played skeptical, pointing out the expense of a trip that could end up being fruitless. An audition never guarenteed anyone a spot. If anything, his father liked to tease him, he could end up traveling over five hundred miles just to become another William Hung. But secretly, the Doyles had complete faith in their son and, a week before the auditions, his mother presented him with two plane tickets to Birmingham and a stack of CDs. "Get working," she told him. "You have an audition to land." And land it, he did. For the first time in his life, he was nervous almost to the point of petrification. But all three judges approved him (not without a little criticism on Simon Cowell's part - but that was to be expected) and gave him the golden ticket to Hollywood, California.

It was in Hollywood that he began making his first real friends in ages, too, even though he was easily the youngest of the bunch. He met plenty of affable, like-minded people, but the one who stuck out the most was soon-to-be fellow semi-finalist, Ariel Woodrum. The pair clicked instantly and when the competition finally began, he begged - without avail - the producers to let them bunk together. Regardless of sleeping arrangements, Robin and Ariel were inseparable; even after his elimination in the seventh week, he persuaded his mother to let him stay and cheer his best friend on.

Although Robin will always be grateful for the experience and friendships that American Idol gave him, he has grown almost uncomfortable being recognized for his part on the show. Currently, he works at Disney's Magic Kingdom, where he's trying to maintain a low profile as Peter Pan, rather than as a star of one of their live shows. Plans, however, for an Idol-based stage show have been announced and it is widely believed that he and Ariel (once she graduates and moves out to live with him) will be the hosts, once it opens.