American Idol 6 Tour Pictures

Chris Richardson and Blake Lewis, aka CAKE, kick off the 56-date and 35-state American Idols Live tour at the Bank Atlantic Center in Sunrise, FL, on Friday night.

Idol champ Jordin Sparks and Sanjaya Malakar spoke out about the upcoming tour at a press conference earlier in the day.

“Just seeing everybody, being able to perform in front of the eight-to-fifteen thousand packed out arena and that we’re not being judged,” Jordin said. “And I can wake up in a new place every morning, I think that’ll be really cool.”

“Being able to see my fans’ faces and shake their hands. Live performance like that is really the only way that you can really see them all or see as many of them that can come,” Sanjaya said.

Here’s the set list for American Idols Live 2007:

* Let’s Get It Started – Entire Group
* Baby Love, Stop In The Name Of Love – Girls
* Heard It Through The Grapevine – Chris Richardson & Ladies
* Proud Mary – Sanjaya Malakar & Melinda Doolittle
* Blaze of Glory – Phil Stacey
* Thanks For The Memories – Chris Sligh & Gina Glocksen
* When God Fearing Women Get the Blues – Haley Scarnato
* Thriller, The Way You Make Me Feel – Sanjaya Malakar
* Typical – Chris Sligh
* Lady Marmalade – Haley Scarnato, Gina Glocksen, & LaKisha Jones
* What Hurts The Most – Chris Richardson & Jordin Sparks
* This Will Be – Jordin Sparks & Melinda Doolittle (fighting over Chris Richardson)
* Time Of The Season – Blake Lewis
* She Will Be Loved – Blake Lewis
* You Give Love A Bad Name – Blake Lewis

* INTERMISSION

* Crazy – Guys (with instruments)
* Who Knew – Gina Glockson
* Virtual Insanity, Ain’t No Sunshine, Geek In The Pink – CAKE
* I Will Always Love You – LaKisha Jones
* Killing Me Softly – Melinda Doolittle (Blake beat boxes and Chris sings towards the end)
* This Love – Chris Richardson
* Another One Bites the Dust – Phil Stacey & Gina Glocksen
* It’s Your Love – Chris Sligh
* Life Is A Highway – Chris Richardson, Sanjaya Malakar and Haley Scarnato
* Natural Woman – Melinda Doolittle
* Ain’t No Other Man – Haley Scarnato, Gina Glocksen, LaKisha Jones, & Melinda Doolittle
* I Who Have Nothing – Jordin Sparks
* Heartbreaker – Jordin Sparks
* You Were Meant For Me – Jordin Sparks
* Broken Wing – Jordin Sparks
* Living On A Prayer – Jordin Sparks
* This Is My Now – Jordin Sparks