If you're not among the tens of millions of people who watch American Idol each week, now is as good a time as any to meet Elliott Yamin from Season 5. Yamin is a classic Idol story: a young guy from ...

Yamin hopes to hit the road on a national tour before heading to Japan in the fall, where he has maintained a consistently faithful fan base. He recently completed a six-week residency in Branson, Mo.

Since his debut single, "Wait for You," arrived in March, he hasn't spent much time at his rented residence in Los Angeles. Instead, it's been a different city nearly every day as he tours, visits ...