From Kids to Top 10 Idols!

Take a look back at Jordin, Blake, Melinda and the rest of the gang as tiny tots ready for their moment in the spotlight

  • BLAKE LEWIS photo | Blake Lewis

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Updated: Monday Mar 26, 2007 | 06:00 AM EDT

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BLAKE LEWIS

Those slick dance moves evolved over decades of practice. "Blake was doing the moonwalk at 5 years old," says his mom, Dinah. He was making his own videos then, too. "I have a tape of me singing 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,' " says Lewis, 25 (with Santa in Seattle in 1984). He might have Mr. Claus to thank for his trademark beatboxing: "I always wanted to be a drummer (but) I never got any drums!"