Natalie Zahra picked up an award at the recent Music Oz Awards.

Natalie won the award for "The Legit Music Development Best R&B Artist"

A mp3 of her song "Essence of You" can be downloaded here: Essence of You

From the Music Oz website:

Idolblog would like to congratulate Kate DeAraugo on her winning the title of Australian Idol 2005!

No doubt that we'll hear more from Emily Williams in the future, but for now the celebrations, title, single and new car belong to Kate DeAraugo...

Kate's single "Maybe Tonight" will be released very soon, so stay tuned!

Details of the new single:

The Australian Idol 2005 winner's single is not released until November 21 but you can pre-order your copy now!

Simply phone 1900 933 333 and follow the instructions. You'll be sent a BigPond Music voucher which can be redeemed against the single when it's released on November 21.

HOW TO VOTE: Voting Lines ARE NOW CLOSED!!!

The countdown's began, soon we'll find out who's going to win the title of "Australian Idol" for 2005...

Will it be Emily?

Will it be Kate?

Stay tuned for the 2.5 hour live concert finale from 7.30pm EST Eastern Daylight Savings Time, for those of you stuck in a time warp we'll be here letting you know just how painful the concert experience actually is...

2.5 hours for a verdict, aren't I glad that this is an abnormality? Imagine a 2.5 hour verdict every week...

HOW TO VOTE: Voting Lines ARE NOW OPEN!!!!!

Tonight both Idol hopefulls gave Australia a first hearing of the new Idol song "Maybe Tonight" that will become the single for the winner. What did you think of the performances? Who sang the song better? What is your opinion of the vocals, of the song, of the lyrics?

Maybe Tonight

I've been holding on
To a love gone wrong
It’s true
For too long

The hurt it left inside
Has made me want to hide
Too much
But I do

I'm not afraid to be alone
The truth is I'm alright

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I've created 3 separate posts, one for people to comment on Emily's performances, another to comment on Kate's and one more for people to discuss the new Idol winner's single that we'll get to hear for the first time tonight...

Please feel free to make yourself at home, tell us what you think, express yourself, let everyone know how you enjoyed (or didn't enjoy) the performances from tonight...

Kate DeAraugo will be singing:
Shackles (Praise You) - Mary Mary
How Could An Angel Break My Heart - Toni Braxton

HOW TO VOTE: Voting Lines ARE NOW OPEN!!!!!

I've created 3 separate posts, one for people to comment on Emily's performances, another to comment on Kate's and one more for people to discuss the new Idol winner's single that we'll get to hear for the first time tonight...

Please feel free to make yourself at home, tell us what you think, express yourself, let everyone know how you enjoyed (or didn't enjoy) the performances from tonight...

Emily Williams will be singing:
Emotion - BeeGees
Since You've Been Gone - Kelly Clarkson

HOW TO VOTE: Voting Lines ARE NOW CLOSED SO DON’T EVEN BOTHER!!!

Lets face it, there can only be three results from tonight’s verdict, and neither of them are particularly exciting…

Tonight we’ll find out who will be in the farce that will be the Idol series final, where last year’s American Idol showed two of the most spectacular vocal performances of the season this year’s final seems that it will be the same old same old. If Lee gets through then he’ll jump around like a epileptic tropical fish on acid, if Emily gets through then she’ll cry and then continue to be a few apples short of a pie and if Kate wins then Kyle’s going to make another comment about her washer woman arms and we’ll be delivered with a good but not great performance…

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I just had to laugh at this particular article, it, along with the article about a drunk Lee pashing Christie and a drunken Dan being found beltless and hammered after the Arias has to be the funniest Idol piece written this year...

REALITY television entered politics yesterday after Queensland Premier Peter Beattie heeded Toowoomba pleas and called on Channel Ten to reopen Australian Idol voting lines following the shock eviction of "Dreadlock Dan" on Monday night.

Dan England was claimed by Toowoomba as its own at the beginning of the series (his grandparents live here), and many local voters felt his eviction – by just 27 votes – was unfair due to the impact of daylight saving on voting times.

Yes, tonight one of the Idols will be feeling “so lonely that they could die