Once suffered partial vocal paralysis but declined risky surgery and has said he feels he is almost fully recovered.
In 2003, at the age of 12, Archuleta won the title of Junior Singer Star on "Star Search" with his version of the song "You're All I Need to Get By," walking away with $100,000.
His performance of John Lennon's "Imagine" on the Feb. 26, 2008 broadcast of "American Idol" made him an early favorite to make it to the seventh season's finals.
Is of Hispanic/Latino decent: Spanish-Basque (father) & Honduran
(mother).
Video for "Crush" placed number #23 on VH1's Top 40 Videos of 2008.
Older sibling is Claudia. Younger siblings are Daniel, Jazzy, and Amber.
In an L.A. Times article Ann Powers pointed out that Archuleta's arrangement of the song happened to be borrowed from one recorded by the late jazz-pop singer Eva Cassidy. A YouTube clip shows him singing the same arrangement for an appearance on the morning show "Good Things Utah" when he was 13.
David's dad is James Jeffrey Archuleta & his mom is Xiomara Guadalupe Mayorga