Elliott Yamin

Efraym Elliott Yamin is an American singer known for his hit single Wait for You and placing third on the fifth season of American Idol.

Yamin was born in Los Angeles, California, to father Shaul Yamin, an Israeli Jew of Iraqi Jewish descent, and mother Claudette Goldberg Yamin , a Jewish American of Ashkenazi descent and former professional singer known for her fiery spirit and for receiving the Golden Idol for Proudest Family Moment Award from Ryan Seacrest during her sons American Idol competition. His family relocated to Richmond, Virginia when Yamin was 11, and his parents divorced when he was 14, his father returning to Los Angeles. Yamin went to school in Richmond at Tuckahoe Middle School, and later, Douglas Southall Freeman High School. Dropping out of high school in his sophomore year, he later achieved a high school GED while working at Foot Locker , a pharmacy, and as an onair disc jockey for local RampB radio station WCDXPower 92 FM, using the name EDub before auditioning for American Idol. Yamin has an older halfsister on his mothers side, Jodi Queen, a married mother of two children and a younger brother,

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