Haley Reinhart

Haley Reinhart (born September 9, 1990) is an American singer from Wheeling, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. Reinhart is currently a finalist on the tenth season of American Idol. Reinhart was born in 1990 to Patti Miller-Reinhart and Harry Reinhart. Both her parents are musicians. She began singing when she was 8 years old, and she performed with her parents’ band Midnight, which covers rock songs from the ’60s and ’70s. She attended Mark Twain Elementary School and Wheeling High School in Wheeling. After graduating high school in 2009, Reinhart attended Harper College in Palatine, Illinois in 2009-2010 studying jazz. She has performed at the 2009 Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland with her high school's jazz band and at Harper College with the college's Jazz Ensemble and the Jazz Lab. Reinhart first auditioned for the ninth season of American Idol in Chicago, but did not advance to the Hollywood round.