Hedley

Canadian Idol has run for six seasons now, and there have been some high-placing contestants who have gone on to a music career after the season ended. Read More

Easily the most successful thing to come out of Canada's now-defunct version of the Idol franchise, Hedley is a punk-pop band with a lot of radio appeal. Read More

In Hedley's early days, lead singer Jacob Hoggard spent a lot of energy trying to make people forget that he ever appeared on Canadian Idol. "There was a period where we worked as hard as we could to separate ourselves from the show," he says. Read More