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Kris Allen<\/a> is an American musician and singer-songwriter from Conway, Arkansas<\/a>, and the winner of the eighth season of American Idol<\/a>. Prior to Idol, he self-released a 2007 album entitled Brand New Shoes. Kris Allen is an American musician and singer-songwriter from Conway, Arkansas, and the winner of the eighth season of American Idol. Prior to Idol, he self-released a 2007 album entitled Brand New Shoes. Allen's Idol coronation song, \"No Boundaries\" and his version of \"Heartless\" both charted within the Top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15979,35962],"tags":[35963,34195,35964,35965,34230],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist","category-kris-allen","tag-acoustic-rock","tag-alternative-rock","tag-blue-eyed-soul","tag-contemporary-christian-music","tag-pop-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/scxrl3t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/scxrl3t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/scxrl3t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/scxrl3t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/scxrl3t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/scxrl3t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364,"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/scxrl3t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/scxrl3t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/scxrl3t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/scxrl3t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAllen's Idol coronation song, \"No Boundaries\" and his version of \"Heartless\" both charted within the Top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100<\/a>, Allen's post-Idol self-titled album<\/a> was released on November 17, 2009, through Jive Records<\/a>. The album<\/a> debuted at #11 on the U.S. Billboard 200<\/a>. The album's lead single, \"Live Like We're Dying\", was released on September 21, 2009, and has so far peaked at #18 in the U.S. The album's second single, \"The Truth\", was released on May 11, 2010, the song featured Pat Monahan of the rock band Train<\/a> on vocals. The third single is confirmed to be \"Alright With Me\", written by Allen and Joe King.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"