1. Megan Joy used to work as a type designer for a company called SendOutCards.
46 Facts About Megan Joy
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Megan Joy has a mom, a stepdad, a sister, and a brother named CJ.
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Megan Joy has stated that she is musically inspired by, among others, Bjork after listening to her when she was 16.
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Megan Joy auditioned for the eighth season of American Idol in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2008, coincidentally on her birthday.
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Megan Joy sang "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II.
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Simon Cowell said she had a seriously good voice and he loved it and Kara DioGuardi said that Megan Joy was an interesting girl and that she had an incredible face.
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Megan Joy had to have a sing-off with another contestant who hoped to make the competition's Top 36, with Megan Joy being the one picked by the judges.
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Cowell has said during his critique on Megan Joy's "Put Your Records On" performance during the semi-final rounds that she "had a rough middle stage in the competition" referring to the Hollywood audition rounds.
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Megan Joy was not one of the three finalists chosen out of her semi-final performance group.
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Megan Joy returned for the "Wild Card" show, sang KT Tunstall's "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" and was selected by the judges to be in the Top 13.
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Megan Joy kicked off her run in the finals with mostly negative critiques from the judges on her performance of the Jackson 5's "Rockin' Robin".
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DioGuardi praised Joy for being able to put her signature on everything she touches and with Randy Jackson in agreement adding "That's so Megan".
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On Motown Night, Megan Joy performed a cover of the Stevie Wonder classic "For Once in My Life" and mentor, Smokey Robinson, said that he believed she was one of the most original contestants American Idol has ever had on the show.
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On Top Downloads night, Megan Joy performed "Turn Your Lights Down Low" and she thought the judges were going to feel her this time but they didn't.
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Megan Joy then added that she really liked Joy but thought she was in trouble.
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Megan Joy performed a duet of "Pretty Flowers" with Michael Sarver in the finale.
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Megan Joy has revealed during an after-Idol interview with TV Guide that there is a possibility that she "obviously blew" her chance at being saved from elimination.
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DioGuardi mentioned on an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno that Megan Joy was one of her favorite two singers in the competition with the other one being Adam Lambert, and Cowell has expressed numerous times that Joy is one of his favorites.
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Megan Joy performed "Put Your Records On" by Corinne Bailey Rae and "Tears Dry on Their Own" by Amy Winehouse.
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Megan Joy announced via Twitter on September 24,2009, that she was in Los Angeles having some meetings and that she has started writing material for her debut album.
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Megan Joy made an appearance at a SendOutCards Convention in Utah on Saturday, September 26,2009.
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Megan Joy announced via Twitter on October 1,2009, that the name of her band that she has started would be called Joirider.
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On October 27,2009, Megan Joy attended the grand opening of "Pandora" at Vibiana in Los Angeles, California.
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Megan Joy attended Gen Art's 12th Annual 'Fresh Faces in Fashion' at the Petersen Automotive Museum on October 29,2009, in Los Angeles, California, as well.
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Megan Joy announced via Twitter on November 2,2009, that she had recorded three songs so far and that her album was in the works.
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On Sunday, November 29,2009, Megan Joy uploaded two of her songs called "Feel Love" and "Incomplete" on her MySpace.
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On December 14,2009, Megan Joy performed a duet of "Silent Night" with Kevin Griffin from Better Than Ezra at a Barenaked Ladies concert.
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On January 6,2010, Megan Joy stated in an online chat interview with ainow.
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Megan Joy stated that her album was due for a mid-2010 release, and that labels are interested in signing her.
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Megan Joy had worked on 14 songs at that point, and she debuted one of her new songs called "Sweet Love".
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On February 2,2010, Megan Joy revealed via Twitter that new songs would be coming very soon.
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On Saturday, February 13,2010, Megan Joy released a new song called "Ryder On The Storm" on her Facebook.
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On Monday, February 22,2010, Megan Joy revealed another new song called "Boy Next Door" which was uploaded to her MySpace and was featured on one of the episodes of the ABC show The Deep End.
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On February 27,2010, Megan Joy uploaded a new song called "I'm Not Tryin' To Hear That" on her Facebook.
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In March 2010, Megan Joy uploaded a new song titled "Trouble Me" to her Myspace Page.
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Megan Joy tried acting with a small role in the film Hall Pass, but her role was cut in the released film.
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On February 24,2011, Megan Joy released a music video for "Two Rivers", one of her songs that was included on her debut album.
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Megan Joy originally planned to release her debut EP in the Summer or Fall of 2011.
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On October 13,2011, Megan Joy revealed one of her new songs titled "Can't Bring Me Down" on her Tumblr and Kickstarter pages.
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Megan Joy released her debut album, Megan Joy, on April 25,2012, on Bandcamp.
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Megan Joy released her second album, Free to Fly, on January 21,2014.
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Megan Joy teamed up with The Bethel Foundation, an organization that helps get single mothers back on their feet, to raise money and she hosted one of their events on Friday, November 13,2009, at the Coca-Cola Bricktown Events Center in Oklahoma City.
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Megan Joy appeared in the Idol auditions phase as Megan Corkrey and then added her middle name Joy during the semi-finals.
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Megan Joy has joint custody of her son and it was during her time on American Idol that her custody battle was "raging," making it the "hardest time of my life," she says.
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Megan Joy has said during an interview that she currently has ten tattoos and that she plans to get another one on her ribs.
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Megan Joy is married to Quinn Allman, founder member of rock band The Used and they have two sons.