I am a fan (and you should be too), because... I am absolutely in love with Chris Daughtry's voice. It's been A LONG TIME since a singer or musical artist has affected me in this way. I've been very down on the direction that music has been going for quite a while. People just don't have talent anymore. As long as they've got a look or something marketable, they just get thrown in a studio and the producers do the rest.

I watched the very first season of American Idol. Then I maybe caught one or two episodes over the past few seasons. But last season, once I'd heard Chris Daughtry's voice, I never missed an episode, up until Chris was voted off, because he was the only reason I watched it.

Yeah, he's not bad on the eyes. Not AT ALL! But his voice.... there's just something about it I never get tired of hearing it. I don't just love it... I'm IN LOVE with it. And NO ONE has had this kind of affect on me ever. I've been a fan of artists... but I'm more of a song person than a singer or band person. I might like a certain song I hear on the radio. Doesn't mean I'm a fan of the band or singer that sings it because I might not like anything else that they do. It's not that way with Daughtry. From the moment I got a copy of their album, I listened to it nonstop. I ripped the songs to my computer so I could listen to it at home and keep a copy in my car. And I even take the CD out of my car and take it into work to listen to it on my computer with headphones. I've been doing this constantly since the album came out and I can honestly say I'm not tired of it yet. I don't think I ever will be.

Before the album had even come out, I had a Chris Daughtry CD. I downloaded every performance he did on American Idol and even downloaded some of the songs he'd recorded with his previous band, Absent Element, and burned myself a CD so I could listen to his voice.

I really hope to be able to see them perform on April 7th at Universal in Orlando, FL. I'm going through a very difficult time in my life right now and that show is a couple months away, so who knows where I'll be or what will be happening in my life then. But I haven't been to a concert in several years (and I used to go to a dozen shows a year, at least). I think this would give me something to look forward to and something to get my mind off of all the crap going on in it right now. Either way though, listening to Daughtry's CD gives me a few minutes of salvation everyday.

I've never been a big fan of the Americal Idol concept. But I'm so thankful that it was there to give Chris Daughtry the opportunity to come into my life. As long as Chris makes music, I'll be here as a fan.