American Idol's Jordin Sparks and more

Jordin really is all the rave, she might has well already won the thing, check this out from People Magazine.

JORDIN SPARKS

On a ferry to the Statue of Liberty at age 3, "Jordin (now 17) was swinging on the rails, saying, 'Mommy, look!' every five seconds," recalls her mom, Jodi. "I'm sure she was singing. Her voice was very raspy and deep, even then."

BLAKE LEWIS

Those slick dance moves evolved over decades of practice. "Blake was doing the moonwalk at 5 years old," says his mom, Dinah. He was making his own videos then, too. "I have a tape of me singing 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,' " says Lewis, 25 (with Santa in Seattle in 1984). He might have Mr. Claus to thank for his trademark beatboxing: "I always wanted to be a drummer (but) I never got any drums!"

MELINDA DOOLITTLE

Would you believe this vocal powerhouse once had something in common with Milli Vanilli? "People would let me in choirs but ask me to lip-synch!" says the singer, 29 (in a childhood portrait). "I was actually tone deaf until after seventh grade. I had charisma, but they didn't want me to sing out loud." All that changed, she says, with divine intervention: "I just prayed. I know that me without God is just tone deaf!"