David Roland Cook (born December 20, 1982 in Houston, Texas, US) is an American rock singer-songwriter, who rose to fame after winning the seventh season of the reality television show American Idol. Prior to Idol he released an album entitled Analog Heart; his post-Idol self-titled album, produced by Rob Cavallo, was released on November 18, 2008 and has been certified platinum by the RIAA, as were two singles from the album, "Light On" and "Time of My Life." A third single, "Come Back To Me," was certified gold. On June 28, 2011, Cook released his second major-label studio album, entitled This Loud Morning. Produced by Matt Serletic, the album consists of 14 tracks penned by Cook along with co-writers David Hodges, Ryan Tedder, Kevin Griffin and Marti Frederiksen, among others. ...show more

David Roland Cook (born December 20, 1982 in Houston, Texas, US) is an American rock singer-songwriter, who rose to fame after winning the seventh season of the reality television show American Idol. Prior to Idol he released an album entitled Analog Heart; his post-Idol self-titled album, produced by Rob Cavallo, was released on November 18, 2008 and has been certified platinum by the RIAA, as were two singles from the album, "Light On" and "Time of My Life." A third single, "Come Back To Me," was certified gold. On June 28, 2011, Cook released his second major-label studio album, entitled This Loud Morning. Produced by Matt Serletic, the album consists of 14 tracks penned by Cook along with co-writers David Hodges, Ryan Tedder, Kevin Griffin and Marti Frederiksen, among others.

The album title comes from a line in the song "Rapid Eye Movement" - "Give me one more quiet night, before this loud morning gets it right, and does me in." On May 10, 2012, Cook debuted a new, independently released single, The Last Song I'll Write for You, on American Idol. Early Music Career: David Cook formed a band with his friend Bobby Kerr while at high school. The band was initially named Red Eye, later Axium. He wrote his first song titled "Red Hot" when he was fifteen.

He was encouraged by Evan Sula-Goff of 8stops7 to make an album when he went to Cook's school to judge a contest, Mr. Jaguar, where David Cook and his band performed Guns N' Roses' "Paradise City". The band had some success when one of their songs, "Hold", was selected to be played in movie theaters across the country, and they were named one of the top 15 independent bands in the country by "Got Milk?" contest as well as the best Kansas City band in 2004. Axium however broke up in 2006 and David Cook moved to Tulsa where he joined Midwest Kings, a band he once opened for. ...show less