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

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MELINDA DOOLITTLE

Would you believe this vocal powerhouse once had something in common with Milli Vanilli? "People would let me in choirs but ask me to lip-synch!" says the singer, 29 (in a childhood portrait). "I was actually tone deaf until after seventh grade. I had charisma, but they didn't want me to sing out loud." All that changed, she says, with divine intervention: "I just prayed. I know that me without God is just tone deaf!"