'Idol' alum Trias has the Philippines in her back pocket
From Grammys and gold records to college and day jobs, life after American Idol is a mix of the ordinary and the entertaining. USA TODAY catches up each week with a former finalist:
When Jasmine Trias landed, only Mount Pinatubo could have rocked the Philippines harder.
By one account, it was complete mayhem. By her account, complete mayhem is actually pretty accurate. "I was nervous and scared," Trias recalls. "All the media was on me."
It was 2004, the year of Jasmania in the Philippines.
Idol, she got the ultimate consolation prize: her very own adoring archipelago in Southeast Asia. "I had no idea I was such a big deal there," Trias, 21, says.
As Trias scurried up the Idol ranks (she finished third), she had no clue that people in the Philippines, her parents' homeland, were pulling for her. (The show airs there, but on a delay.)
When she arrived in person, "it was hard for me to take it all in."
There was a lot to digest, including endorsement deals with Hapee toothpaste and McDonald's.
Four years ago, you could've walked into any McDonald's in the Philippines and ordered the Jasmine Trio, a Happy Meal of sorts: a strawberry float, large fries and a CD of her singing a ditty called Love Ko 'To (translation: "I'm lovin' it").
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When Jasmine Trias landed, only Mount Pinatubo could have rocked the Philippines harder.
By one account, it was complete mayhem. By her account, complete mayhem is actually pretty accurate. "I was nervous and scared," Trias recalls. "All the media was on me."
It was 2004, the year of Jasmania in the Philippines.
Idol, she got the ultimate consolation prize: her very own adoring archipelago in Southeast Asia. "I had no idea I was such a big deal there," Trias, 21, says.
As Trias scurried up the Idol ranks (she finished third), she had no clue that people in the Philippines, her parents' homeland, were pulling for her. (The show airs there, but on a delay.)
When she arrived in person, "it was hard for me to take it all in."
There was a lot to digest, including endorsement deals with Hapee toothpaste and McDonald's.
Four years ago, you could've walked into any McDonald's in the Philippines and ordered the Jasmine Trio, a Happy Meal of sorts: a strawberry float, large fries and a CD of her singing a ditty called Love Ko 'To (translation: "I'm lovin' it").
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