page_title: EJay Day
section_title: Post-Idol
hierarchical_section_title: EJay Day / Post-Idol
caption_attribution_description: English: American Idol season one finalist Ejay Day, performing on the cruise liner MS Veendam in 2012, alongside unidentified guitar player.
context_page_description: Earl "EJay" Day Jr. is an American singer and songwriter, who placed tenth during the first season of American Idol. Originally not chosen to advance into the voting rounds, Day was brought back to replace another contestant who had lied about his age. After being voted through the semi-finals into the top ten, Day became the first finalist in American Idol history to be eliminated from the competition. Prior to appearing on the Fox reality series, Day helped write the song "Pure Love" for Raven-Symoné's album Undeniable and placed in the top 20 on Popstars: USA.
  Day went on to participate in the 2002 American Idols LIVE! tour and throughout the following year made several appearances at charity events. He toured again in 2003, as part of a promotional campaign called Coca-Cola's Behind the Scenes With American Idol – a tour in which various American Idol finalists performed in select shopping malls throughout the country. A recording of Day singing Edwin McCain's "I'll Be" is included on American Idol: Greatest Moments. This compilation album of all the first season finalists was released in 2002 and reached #4 on the Billboard 200 chart.
context_section_description: Less than a month after American Idol's first season finale, Day reunited with the top thirty contestants to perform in the two-hour American Idol in Las Vegas TV special. Day then participated through October and November in the 2002 American Idols LIVE! tour, along with his fellow top ten finalists. Each of this tour's thirty shows was opened by Day singing Janet Jackson's "Black Cat". To usher in 2003, Day performed in Pasadena, California's New Year's Day Rose Parade. Paired with eighth place finalist AJ Gil on a float for Give Kids the World, the two sang "Calling All Angels", a song which had been specifically written for the charity organization. The band OTown also participated in this float. Day and Gil would subsequently perform "Calling All Angels" at an Orlando, Florida fundraising gala in June and release this duet as a single through Give Kids the World. Later that year, Day participated in further fundraising events, such as the Hollywood Knights Season Wrap Party in Los Angeles and NSYNC's Challenge for the Children event in Miami. Throughout the Spring, Day participated in Coca-Cola's Behind the Scenes With American Idol promotional tour, in which he and a selection of other finalists from the first two seasons of the series performed in shopping malls owned by the Simon Property Group. Around this time, Day also performed the National Anthem for a variety of professional Georgia sports teams, such as the Atlanta Hawks and the Atlanta Thrashers. In November, Day performed along with Edwin McCain and American Idol second season finalist Vanessa Olivarez in a tree lighting ceremony at the World of Coca-Cola.
  Shortly after appearing on American Idol, Day returned to performing on cruise ships. Between 2005 and 2006, it was reported that he had been performing on two different ships operated by Royal Caribbean – Voyager of the Seas and Explorer of the Seas. By 2011, Day had established a musical act performing on Holland America's MS Veendam. Day has also performed in Las Vegas and been cast in several low-profile theatrical productions. It has been suggested by PopCrush, that Day may have continued performing for Muhammad Ali, extending his purported pre-Idol history with the iconic boxer.
  The American Idol: Greatest Moments album, released October 1, 2002, features a recorded version of Day singing Edwin McCain's "I'll Be". The album reached #4 on the Billboard 200 chart. Although Day has never released a debut album of his own, he remarked during his American Idol run that he would likely title such an album Fire or Eye Candy. Following his elimination from the series, Day elaborated to Billboard that his dream would be to collaborate with The Neptunes on music similar to that of Britney Spears. Five months later, People magazine reported that Day was recording "demo tapes", and the following April, Day told Orlando Weekly that he had completed a song called "Come Into My World". In July 2003, "Come Into My World" was released as a single. According to Day's official website, the song found airplay on two radio stations in Atlanta. Currently, "Come Into My World" can be heard on Day's StarNow account, along with another original song, "My Lovin's Too Good Too Wait". Day's MySpace page included two additional tracks, "Just Let Go" and "One Good Beat", which can no longer be heard due to MySpace accidentally deleting millions of songs.
  In September 2006, it was reported by Gwinnett Daily Post that Day had recorded a full album. Evoking Day's single from three years earlier, this album would have been titled Come Into My World. Although unreleased, the album was said to contain original songs, mixing R&B with pop. The publication was told by Day that "many of the songs were inspired by his experiences performing on cruise ships." Day's official website noted that the album's songs were written by Day himself, Charlie Morgan, and Georgi Ivanov.
  The LGBT publication Baltimore OUTloud reported in 2012 that dance music artists known as the Perry Twins were writing and producing new music for Day, although nothin
caption: Day performing on the cruise ship MS Veendam in 2012 (with an unidentified guitar player on his left)
exif: {"Image Tag 0x000B": "Windows Photo Editor 10.0.10011.16384", "Image Make": "Canon", "Image Model": "Canon EOS 7D", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "240", "Image YResolution": "240", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Windows Photo Editor 10.0.10011.16384", "Image DateTime": "2016:12:18 16:23:07", "Image Artist": "Ronald S Woan", "Image ExifOffset": "2376", "GPS GPSVersionID": "[2, 2, 0, 0]", "GPS GPSLatitudeRef": "S", "GPS GPSLatitude": "[45, 259393/10000, 0/0]", "GPS GPSLongitudeRef": "W", "GPS GPSLongitude": "[74, 110183/5000, 0/0]", "GPS GPSAltitudeRef": "1", "GPS GPSAltitude": "67/5", "GPS GPSTimeStamp": "[18, 37, 3]", "GPS GPSSpeedRef": "K", "GPS GPSSpeed": "79174/2331", "GPS GPSMapDatum": "WGS-84", "GPS GPSDate": "2012:01:03", "Image GPSInfo": "4952", "Image Padding": "[]", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "96", "Thumbnail YResolution": "96", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "5306", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "7849", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/60", "EXIF FNumber": "28/5", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Shutter Priority", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "3200", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0230", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2012:01:03 15:37:03", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2012:01:03 15:37:03", "EXIF ShutterSpeedValue": "5906891/1000000", "EXIF ApertureValue": "2485427/500000", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MaxApertureValue": "39/8", "EXIF SubjectDistance": "9758/25", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Pattern", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode", "EXIF FocalLength": "80", "EXIF SubSecTimeDigitized": "00", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF FocalPlaneXResolution": "5184000/907", "EXIF FocalPlaneYResolution": "691200/119", "EXIF FocalPlaneResolutionUnit": "2", "EXIF CustomRendered": "Normal", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Auto Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Standard", "EXIF BodySerialNumber": "220102169", "EXIF LensSpecification": "[18, 250, 0/0, 0/0]", "EXIF LensModel": "18-250mm", "EXIF Padding": "[]"}