American Idol has proven to be a great stepping stone for many musicians. Many of its alumni are now successful artists and musicians, even some received sales with over 500,000 albums.Then, during its 17th season, American Idol helped the world to discover a multi talented and musically gifted singer, Alejandro Aranda. He is not only doing cover songs but also sings original during the season. His guitar play has a unique style to it. Not only that, he can play piano, rapping, and make electronic music. It’s also something rare that an American idol contestant was able to perform their own works. But Alejandro was different. Even during his first audition, he was performing his original and he was playing with a guitar. Then, the judges were challenging him and he was able to play piano. He mentioned that his inspiration was Beethoven, Bach and Chopin in which you can hear later in some of his music. I personally followed his audition from the beginning until the end and remained fans despite American Idol being over. Now, without further adieu, I present to you some of Alenjadro Aranda's best work a.k.a Scary Pool Party.

Out loud

It’s the first song that he sings during his audition that really captured the judges, even myself. It’s so melodic and his guitar play is just indescribable. As you can hear in this video below, he also mentioned that he’s self taught which made this song and the composition of his song even more incredible. In short though, he’s super talented.

Blesser

This was also played during Idol but in a much shorter version. However this is the original version which is such a delight and the lyrics are poetic too. Since it’s not recorded in a professional studio, his voice is lower than the piano. I also leave you the idol version where it sounds much cleaner and his voice was much more visible compared to the previous version.

Poison

This song also highlights Alejandro’s guitar skill and was also played during American idol. Throughout the season, he was continuously bringing his A game into the shows and unlike many other contestants who were just doing covers, he was singing his own music. Sadly though, he didn’t win the first spot. He only got the 2nd spot. One thing for sure is that, even today his music is so versatile and he shows different sides of himself with different instruments.

I was actually very difficult for me to pick only three because I also left out one of his work, cholo love which is also great and available in different versions. His personality is very humble and chill. It’s like the type of guy that just doesn’t take life too seriously but does amazing in everything he tries to do. For the next three tunes Tuesday, I will bring you Eden, one of the underrated artists that I listen to a lot as well. Stay tuned!