May 21, 2003: It all came down to Ruben Studdard vs. Clay Aiken. Some 124 million votes were cast and a whopping 38 million viewers tuned in, one of the highest-rated TV broadcasts that year and the ...
The season 2 finale of American Idol brought together opposing ends of the spectrum: Ruben Studdard, the velvet-voiced R&B singer from Birmingham, Alabama, pitted against Clay Aiken, the “geek to chic ...
They seemed an unlikely couple — the teddy bear from Alabama with the gospelly R&B voice and the geeky pop singer from North Carolina. But Ruben Studdard and Clay Aiken hit it off on "American Idol" ...