Three Hundred Sixteenth in the Famous People (FP) Series - Jason Castro
Born in Dallas, March 25, 1987 and raised in Rowlett, Jason René Castro currently resides in Rockwall, Texas. He was the fourth place finalist on the seventh season of the television series American Idol.
Jason auditioned for American Idol in Dallas, singing the Ray LaMontagne version of the song "Crazy". He was not shown on the television series until the final 24 due to legal restrictions on the songs he chose to perform.
Castro is the first contestant in the history of American Idol to ever play an instrument on the American Idol stage. He played the guitar during the Top 24 performance night when he sang "(What A Day For A) Daydream". He is also the only contestant so far to have played the ukulele on the show. He played the instrument while singing Over The Rainbow, after learning to play it in less than a week. Castro also sang in three languages on American Idol, supplementing English songs with Spanish (a combination of Sting's "Fragile" and "Fragilidad" on March 25, 2008) and French (Paul McCartney's "Michelle" on March 12, 2008).
Before he was eliminated, Castro was in the bottom three only once. He was voted off the competition on May 7, 2008. On May 8, a day after Castro's elimination, a poll conducted in The Ellen Degeneres Show's website revealed that 75% of the public didn't agree with the results. But since that time, Jason has completed the American Idols LIVE! Tour 2008 with his fellow contestants during the summer of 2008. So just like this tubular cache, Jason is hanging in there.
The location of this cache is in the Shooks Cemetery within close proximity to a Castro namesake marker.
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