How much is Allison Iraheta worth?
| Net Worth: | $2 Million |
|---|---|
| Profession: | Professional Singer |
| Date of Birth: | April 27, 1992 |
| Country: | United States of America |
| Height: | 1.57 m |
About Allison Iraheta
Allison Iraheta was born on April 27, 1992 and is an American singer with an estimated net worth of $2 million. Allison Iraheta was born in Glendale, California to Salvadoran immigrant parents. She began singing at a very young age. In 2001 Iraheta began taking vocal lessons with Raphael Enriquez at the Los Angeles Music and Art School. It is a nonprofit community school of the arts. In 2006 Allison Iraheta competed in the Spanish-language Telemundo TV network’s show Quinceanara. She won the competition and was awarded a $50,000 prize and recording contract. However, the recordings never took place.
American Idol
Allison Iraheta auditioned for American Idol’s eighth season in San Francisco, California. The judges considered her to be a contestant to watch from her first audition. However, she received little screen time prior to her selection to be among the final 13 contestants, at age 16 the youngest contestant yet to make it to the finals. One of Iraheta’s best received performances was a duet on Foghat’s classic “Slow Ride” with eventual runner-up Adam Lambert. Allison Iraheta made it to the final four of the competition but was then eliminated. She was the last surviving female contestant for American Idol’s Season Eight.
Style of Allison Iraheta
Allison Iraheta has a bluesy, gutsy, raspy style of singing. She has been compared to such vocal greats as Janis Joplin and Bonnie Raitt. The interpretive skill obvious in performances of such emotional classics as “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone” and “I Can’t Make You Love Me” points to a vocal maturity very rare in a singer as young as Iraheta. Her obvious preference on American Idol was to perform rock songs. The rock orientation was further accentuated by Allison Iraheta’s raspberry dyed hair and aggressive, distinctive outfits.
Recording Contract and the Future
With praise from a wide range of prominent members of the music industry as well as entertainment press, it seemed inevitable that Allison Iraheta would be quickly signed to a recording contract. Howard Benson, producer of the debut album by Daughtry, praised Allison Iraheta saying, “I think I could make a huge record with that girl.” The announcement came on June 9, 2009 that Allison Iraheta had been signed to a recording contract by 19 Entertainment with a first album due in the fall on the Jive Records label. Iraheta is touring over the summer of 2009 as part of the American Idols Live concert tour.
Friday I’ll Be Over U (2009)
When high profile producers are hired to put together tracks for the first album from an American Idol contestant it often seems the singer gets a bit buried in the effort of the production wizard to showcase their own talent. Here Max Martin seems to perfectly capture the image and vocal style of Allison Iraheta. She could do loud and bratty with the best of them, but there was always an underlying sweetness and vulnerability to her singing as well. Here the chorus could certainly be sung in an angry, accusatory fashion. However, instead Iraheta’s vocals have an almost sweet and wistful quality. It makes “Friday I’ll Be Over U” sound more like an expansive song instead of simply a diatribe.
There is plenty of rock fire to go around as well. The aggressive guitar that kicks off the song with Allison Iraheta’s “Oh yeah!” echoes some of the best of harder-edged bubblegum of the past. Twinkly synthesizers give way to a wall of sound that kicks the song into an even higher gear. Pop radio programmers should be listening, because “Friday I’ll Be Over U” will stick in the minds of listeners.
An element of a number of Allison Iraheta’s American Idol performances that is missing here is the bluesy, classic rock sound that created comparisons with the likes of Janis Joplin. It would be good to see material like that included on her first album. However, the style of this song will instantly grab fans of contemporary pop with its easy to grasp and understand arrangement. With more recordings like this, pop stardom could be on the way for Allison Iraheta.
Iraheta returned to music in October 2020 as a member of the three-piece band Fuhm. As of 2023, Allison Iraheta’s net worth is estimated to be $2 million. The band’s first single, “Send Out the Clown”, came out in 2020. She has previously been the lead singer of the band, Halo Circus.
