David Anthony Hernandez (born May 31, 1983) is an American singer and the twelfth place finalist of FOX's seventh season of the television series American Idol.\r \r Biography\r Hernandez was born in Phoenix, Arizona, but grew up mostly in Glendale. He was raised by his single mom, Spring Hernandez, in a broken family. His father is a truck driver and he has a younger sister named Alexandra who is eight years younger than him.\r \r He began singing at age six. His grandfather took him on his first audition for a local theater company named Valley Youth Theater. He got one of the lead roles and knew that singing and performing was the only thing out there for him. Hernandez used to train at Voices, a vocal coaching studio. His teacher claimed that Hernandez trained "whenever he could afford it" since he wasn't always financially stable.\r \r He was a young gymnast when he was a little kid and won around ten medals in the Grand Canyon Olympics ...