{"id":141689,"date":"2025-03-13T18:07:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T22:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/03\/13\/doug-kiker-american-idol-contestant-known-as-the-singing-garbage-man-dies-at-32\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T18:07:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T22:07:55","slug":"doug-kiker-american-idol-contestant-known-as-the-singing-garbage-man-dies-at-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/03\/13\/doug-kiker-american-idol-contestant-known-as-the-singing-garbage-man-dies-at-32\/","title":{"rendered":"Doug Kiker, \u2018American Idol\u2019 Contestant Known as \u2018The Singing Garbage Man,\u2019 Dies at\u00a032"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tAmerican Idol <\/em>contestant Doug Kiker has died at age 32.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe singer\u2019s sister, Angela Evans, shared the news with a Facebook<\/a> post on Wednesday, writing, \u201cIt is with a heavy heart that we have to announce the passing of my brother Douglas Kiker.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cHe was sooo loved and will be missed by so many!\u201d she continued. \u201c[You\u2019re] singing with the Angel\u2019s now Bubba Please pray for our family as we go [through] this very difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDonna Kiker Carrillos-Ramirez, another family member, also posted about Doug\u2019s death on Facebook. \u201cToday I got the call that no one wants to get,\u201d she wrote. \u201cWe lost an amazing person today. He had the biggest smile and knew how to make you laugh.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe added, \u201cDouglas Kiker you will forever be missed. Fly high. Say hey to grandma.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNeither post shared Doug\u2019s cause of death. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Mobile, Alabama, singer competed on season 18 of American Idol<\/em> in 2020, where he earned the nickname \u201cThe Singing Garbage Man\u201d thanks to his day job as a sanitation worker. His audition moved then-judge Katy Perry to tears, with Doug performing Rascal Flatts\u2019 \u201cBless the Broken Road.\u201d Though he was eliminated the following round after singing Marvin Gaye\u2019s \u201cAin\u2019t No Mountain High Enough,\u201d Doug was later invited back to virtually perform \u201cBless the Broken Road\u201d again with the country trio.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2021, Doug was arrested and charged<\/a> with third-degree domestic violence. The next year, an independent film produced in Doug\u2019s home city titled Garbage Man<\/em> premiered on Vimeo<\/a>. The project found him portraying a fictionalized version of himself, with his character working as a bouncer at a club hosting a singing competition.<\/p>\n

\n\tDoug is survived by two daughters, pictures of whom he sometimes posted on Instagram<\/a>. In his bio on the platform, he described himself as \u201cjust regular guy trying to make it who found love in music!!!!!!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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American Idol contestant Doug Kiker has died at age 32. The singer\u2019s sister, Angela Evans, shared the news with a Facebook post on Wednesday, writing, \u201cIt is with a heavy heart that we have to announce the passing of my brother Douglas Kiker.\u201d Related Gone But Not Forgotten: Musicians We Lost in\u00a02025 03\/07\/2025 \u201cHe was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}