A B O U T
    Constantine was born in Brooklyn to Greek American parents on September 17, 1975. Both of his maternal and paternal grandparents immigrated to the United States from Greece in the 1920s. He was brought up Greek Orthodox. When Constantine was five years old his family moved to Wyckoff, New Jersey, an affluent suburb of New York City, where he grew up. At that time he developed an interest in music, following the lead of his older brother. By age eleven he was studying the trumpet at Eisenhower Middle School. He later sang in high school garage bands, including Lady Rain and Milkbone. He graduated from Ramapo High School in 1993.

    He then attended The Boston Conservatory of Music, where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Musical Theater and a minor in voice from the Berkley College of Music in 2002. He was in the cast recording of the 2000 musical, Suburban Dreams, which was produced by composer Stephen Thompson, Richard Kenner, and Jesse Merz.
Some years before appearing on Idol, Constantine competed on the dating show Elimidate and was an extra in NBC's Law and Order: SVU and the WB's Astro Boy.

    He has appeared in a number of off-Broadway roles from the Conservatory, along with a series of independent films. After graduating the Conservatory, Constantine trained as an acting apprentice at the prestigious Williamstown Theatre Festival in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts and toured in the Broadway international touring company of Rent as the lead role Roger Davis. Since he had no agent representing him, he was allowed to appear on American Idol.

A M E R I C A N   I D O L
    In August 2004, supposedly upon an ex-girlfriend's suggestion, Constantine traveled to Washington DC to audition for the television show American Idol. For the 2005 season, Idol producers changed the age range of contestants from 16-26 to 16-28. Along with Bo Bice, Constantine was one of the oldest contestants to participate on American Idol. Constantine and Bice are also notable for being among the first contestants to compete using the rock idiom.

    On April 27, 2005, Constantine was eliminated from American Idol after he performed Nickelback's "How You Remind Me" during the 2000s music round. He was in the bottom three with Vonzell Solomon and Anthony Fedorov. Less than a week before his elimination, Constantine's pre-Idol band, Pray For The Soul Of Betty, announced the May 10 release of their self-titled debut on their label, Baby Julius.

    After American Idol Constantine was briefly represented by the Creative Artists Agency, but as of October 2006, he is no longer represented by the agency. As of 2006, Constantine has created his own independent label, Sixth Place Records, a branch of Sixth Place Productions.

P R A Y   F O R   T H E   S O U L   O F   B E T T Y
    Constantine was added to the band in 2003 as the lead vocalist after winning over 150 auditioners. For three years, he contributed lyrics and songs for the band. The band rose to national attention when Constantine appeared on Idol. His audition clip showed him "quitting" the band, a claim he had denied at the time. On March 20, 2006, Constantine announced his departure with the band due to creative and business differences.

S O L O   C A R E E R
    In November and December 2005, Constantine performed four live shows in Manila, Philippines and New Jersey, USA. His set list included well-known songs he has performed previously, including songs from Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Rent, Jesus Christ Superstar and American Idol. In August, 2006, Constantine completed a solo tour of 13 cities throughout the Northeast, where he debuted material from his CD, including various self-penned compositions. On August 7th, 2007 Constantine released his 2-years-in-the-making CD with 12 tracks.

A C T I N G
    In the fall of 2005, he was in negotiations to star in a television sitcom called "Brooklyn" that was to be loosely based on his upbringing as the youngest of three in a large Greek-American family of New York. Disney's ABC network bought rights to the show, courtesy of Grammnet (of Paramount, owned by former Cheers and Frasier star Kelsey Grammer). However, later ABC passed on the project before it passed the script stage.

    On August 22, 2006, it was announced by MTV that Constantine joined the cast of the Broadway musical The Wedding Singer alongside Stephen Lynch. On August 23, 2006, it was announced that he would be performing the role of Sammy, originally performed by Matthew Saldivar. He is to join the show for an 8-week stint beginning September 8, 2006. Constantine joined the cast of the CBS daytime drama The Bold and the Beautiful on May 15, 2007 for a limited run as Constantine Parros, a singer and record producer. He signed a 13-week contract. In February of 2008, Constantine appeared in a reading of Eric Sanders, playwright's play "It's a Dry Heat" at Playwrights Horizons, opposite Tony Award-nominee Isabel Keating and rising star Gillian Jacobs.

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