Yay! I’ve been waiting to see one of these David’s album“Christmas From The Heart” now has a commercial that is playing on TV! So far, people have spotted the commercial on ABC Family, ABC, Hallmark, etc.

Be sure to pick up the album — of course for the Holiday’s and for Christmas gifts! They make great presents David’s HOLIDAY album is one that you MUST have added to the collection!

.P.S. Guys, I’m updating on my Mom’s computer - my computer got a virus and crashed. Too make a long story short, computer is fine now and I just need to get my Internet back on it sometime this week. Thanks and Amy is doing a great job staying posted!

Holiday layout to launch once I am able to get back online on my computer

David left a voice message today wishing us all a Happy Thanksgiving!

Credit to xlilkatiax for the video.

A quick reminder to all:

David will be appearing on Kaleidoscope today! Tune in to FOX at 4:00PM ET to catch it!

You can also call 1-801-386-8196 to leave David a voice message!

In 2007, 16-year-old David Archuleta became one of the youngest contestants to compete on the TV talent competition “American Idol,” winding up as runner-up to David Cook after receiving 44 percent of over 97 million votes. David Archuleta’s self-titled album was released in late 2008, he’s toured the country with the “Idol” cast and, in September, won the Year in Music’s Rising Male Star Award at the American Latino Media Arts Awards. Besides his new “Christmas From the Heart” CD — a collection of holiday favorites such as “Silent Night” and “Ave Maria” — he’s writing songs for a new pop CD to be released next year. He spoke by phone to AnnArbor.com writer Roger LeLievre recently in advance of his Friday night concert at Hill Auditorium with the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra.

Q: Where are you this morning?
A: I’m in Southern California, eating some cereal. … It’s Kashi, and I’ve mixed it in with some golden flax.

Q: How you are feeling about performing with a full symphony? Is this a first for you?
A: I’m excited. I’ve been able to perform with a symphony before, but never Christmas music and never a whole entire show like this. … It’s so amazing to see how so many people come together and make a song. It really makes such a huge difference and makes it so much greater. It’s really neat.

Q: How do you prepare? You’re there, the orchestra is here.
A: There isn’t a whole lot of time to rehearse it. The songs I already know, and I will have a little bit of time to go through them with the orchestra. I’m really excited to hear the arrangements. (The songs) are going to be coming to life performed with a live orchestra and that’s really exciting for me and I am really happy to be able to be able to get to do it.

Q: How has life been since ‘Idol?’ Are things less of a whirl, or more?
A: It hasn’t really stopped. ‘American Idol’ was just a year ago, so much has happened since then. I can’t believe I went through that and all the extremes I had, from the beginning of those auditions where I wasn’t sure what was going to happen to now, having released an album last year and now the Christmas album and Christmas tour. It’s like, wow — I did not think I would have moved this much since last year. It’s just crazy. I didn’t think I would be going on tour this year and performing and getting to work on music and a Christmas album over the summer, which is kind of funny, working on a Christmas album in the summer. It’s made Christmas last a lot longer this year. It’s just go, go, go but it’s nice. I’m productive with myself and that’s a good feeling.

Q: Tell me more about the Christmas CD.
A: This is my Christmas gift to all the fans. I wanted to keep it really heartfelt and share what I feel is important about Christmas. It’s my favorite holiday first of all, and Christ’s birth is really important to me, and just that whole thing of celebrating that and celebrating his life is really special. … It’s really neat to see the (Christmas album) come out now. I spent all summer working on this, I know what goes on with the details, and later it’s out on CD and people are listening to it. It’s so cool to think about that — they’re listening to what I’ve been working on all summer. I want people to leave with that whole spirit of Christmas and keep that with them after the show.

Q: Do you still tour with the ‘Idol’ folks?
A: I’ve been doing my own stuff, pretty much. We did the ‘American Idol’ tour last year, after that I’ve just done my own thing. I did a couple of shows with (winner) David Cook, there was one real cool show we did in Manila in the Philippines. It was great being able to perform with David Cook and go to the Philippines for the first time.

Q: What’s next for you when the tour is done? Do you have another pop CD in the works?
A: Yeah, that’s actually why I’m in L.A. right now. I’ve been writing a lot and traveling around, working in different places and working with different writers. It’s been a challenge trying to work on my own songwriting. It’s something I’ve always wanted to get better at doing and do more of. … When you’re part of a song’s creation, your personality comes into it and you have all that more of a connection to it. It’s just been great.

Q: Do you have a release date in mind?
A: No (he laughs). Right now the main focus is the Christmas tour.

Q: Will you be just playing Christmas music at the Ann Arbor concert?
A: I’ll have a few of the pop songs I’ll be adding to the show but it will mainly be about the Christmas music.

Q: It must be hard, touring over Thanksgiving. Is your family coming with you?
A: They’re not. I’ll have my band, crew and tour manager.

Q: Since it’s a Thanksgiving show, what are you thankful for this time of year?
A: I just have to be thankful for everything I’ve been able to experience. I owe that to God because I really feel like he’s been able to let me do all this. I am so thankful for that. I wouldn’t be here without him. … Another thing is family, for sure. Family and friends are so important, and they’re the ones who keep you sane. They let you know there is someone there for you and people care for you.

AnnArbor.com

American Idol runner-ups David Archuleta and Katharine McPhee will perform on “Kaleidoscope,” a completely unique Thanksgiving special on FOX. The show was created to help raise awareness of the key issues surrounding women and cancer. To inform, inspire, and influence women to take action for their health is the goal of the show. “Kaleidoscope” will become a new Thanksgiving tradition on FOX that combines the beauty of skating, the excitement of song, and the brave message of survivorship to raise awareness of the key issues surrounding women and cancer.

“Kaleidoscope” will include ice skating from champions and cancer survivors Scott Hamilton and Dorothy Hamill, as well as Kristi Yamaguchi, Nancy Kerrigan, and three Olympic hopefuls. In addition, cancer survivor Olivia Newton-John will perform, as will David Foster, Katharine McPhee, and David Archuleta.

Tune in Thanksgiving Day, November 26th at 4pm ET on FOX

Source: American Idol News

David shot us a new video blog from his home in Utah! He’ll explain why he is back in Utah in the blog.. we get to see the new Archuleta Family Members too! haha. Thanks David for the new blog!

If you have ANY David videos can you PLEASE send them to us? Please though, try not to have them tagged from another David site as we don’t want to take there videos. E-mail them to me at davidarchuletaweb@gmail.com and I’ll let you in on the big surprise!

Fans have voted for the Top 5 acts in a future Stadium of Fire!
For the last poll…we have to choose our favourite from the Top 5.
I’m sure you guys know the drill VOTE VOTE VOTE!

Vote HERE!!

Awesome! David wrote us a new blog on his official site today, and it’s awesome! Thanks David!

Hello to all! I’m sorry I haven’t made a blog for a while. I’ve been in the studio a lot doing writing and recording, and it’s been a lot of fun! Last week I got to work with Matt Squire and Victoria Horn, and this week I’ve been working with Daniel Bedingfield and Kina Grannis. They’re all really great and talented people! I can’t wait for you all to hear the songs that we’ve been working on heheh. But I’ve been loving the writing sessions!

While I’ve been working in LA, I’ve gotten to spend time with my aunt! It’s been a lot of fun getting to spend time with her and let her be a part of all of the things I’ve been doing down here. I haven’t gotten to spend this much time with her for years, so it’s always great to be with family and have good times. It’s been a hectic, busy week but we still manage to do some fun things here and there.

All right, so Monday while we were writing, Kina told me she was going to the Imogen Heap concert. I just about passed out! I have been wanting to see Imogen Heap for soooo long and she’s one of my favorite musicians! So I got tickets for me and my aunt and we got to go to Imogen’s show. It was AMAZING! it was fun to see how nervous Imogen was and she was just so genuine and quirky. And then her music and the way she loops cool sounds is incredible. I couldn’t get enough of it, and she kept going until midnight lol. I was exhausted but I was so happy to watch her. But anyway, you can never get enough of Imogen but you’ve probably had enough of my blabbing lol.

That’s all I have for right now! More writing today so I better head off. There are some fun things coming up this week that I’ll talk to you about next time! But until then I’ll talk to you later!

Song for the day: The Moment I Said It - Imogen Heap
This song really stood out to me when she performed it at the concert. SO good!

David wants us to know that his Christmas tour kicks off on 24th November, in Salt Lake City!
Be sure to leave him a message to let him know what you think about ‘Christmas From The Heart’.