Ídolos Brazil season 3

Ídolos Brazil 3 (known as Ídolos 2008) was the third season of Brazilian reality interactive talent show Ídolos (and first aired on Rede Record), which premiered August 19, 2008 with the season finale airing on December 17, 2008.

Ídolos Brazil
Season 3
Hosted by	Rodrigo Faro
Judges	Luis Calainho Paula Lima Marco Camargo
Winner	Rafael Barreto
Runner-up	Rafael Bernardo
Finals venue	Arena Skol Anhembi
Release
Original network	Rede Record
Original release	August 19 (2008-08-19) – December 17, 2008 (2008-12-17)
Season chronology

Rodrigo Faro was the host and the judging panel was reduced from 4 (in seasons 1 and 2) to 3 and consisted of Luís Calainho, a music and entertainment businessman, Paula Lima, a soul singer/songwriter and Marco Camargo, a Latin Grammy Award winning music producer.

Rafael Barreto won the competition with Rafael Bernardo as the first runner-up and Maria Christina finishing third.

Early Process

Regional Auditions

Auditions were held in the following cities:

Episodes Air Dates	Audition City	Audition Date	Audition Venue
August 19, 2008 to September 10, 2008	Porto Alegre	May 3, 2008	Hotel De Ville
	Salvador	May 17, 2008	Hotel Bahia Othon Palace
	Rio de Janeiro	May 24, 2008	Sambadrome Marquês de Sapucaí
	São Paulo	May 31, 2008	Ibirapuera Gymnasium

Theater Round

Groups

The first day of Theater Week featured the eighty-nine contestants from the auditions round. Divided into groups, each contestant should go on stage and sing a song a capella for the judges until they stopped them. Seventy contestants advanced.

Duets

The next round required the contestants to split up in pairs and perform. Forty-five advanced to the final round of Theater requiring a solo performance.

Solos

Forty-five made it to the final round, which required the contestants singing solo with the option of playing an instrument. In the end, the judges take the contestants in groups of five and tell them if they made the final thirty.

Semi-finals

The thirty semifinalists were randomly split into different groups. Each contestant would then sing in their respective group's night. There were three separate groups and the top three contestants from each group made it to the finals.

Wild Card

Six contestants who failed to make it to the finals were invited back to perform for another chance at a spot in the finals. Only one wildcard contestant (Nanda Garcia) was chosen by the public vote.

Finals

Finalists

Contestant	Age	Hometown	Audition Location	Voted Off
Rafael Barreto	22	Salvador	Salvador	Winner
Rafael Bernardo	23	Vitória da Conquista	São Paulo	Dec 17, 2008
Maria Christina	19	São Bernardo	São Paulo	Dec 10, 2008
Paulo Cremona	23	São Paulo	São Paulo	Dec 03, 2008
Nanda Garcia	23	Niterói	Rio de Janeiro	Nov 26, 2008
Lorena Chaves	21	Belo Horizonte	São Paulo	Nov 19, 2008
Cássia Raquel	21	Rio de Janeiro	Rio de Janeiro	Nov 12, 2008
Amandí Cortez	26	João Pessoa	Salvador	Nov 05, 2008
Pedrinho Black	23	Uberlândia	São Paulo	Oct 29, 2008
Tiago Mattos	18	Curitiba	Porto Alegre	Oct 22, 2008

Elimination chart

Legend

Top 30

Top 10

Winner

Safe

Safe First

Safe Last

Eliminated

Stage:		Semi-Finals			WC	Finals
Week:		09/23	10/01	10/08	10/15	10/22	10/29	11/05	11/12	11/19	11/26	12/03	12/10	12/17
Place	Contestant	Result
1	Rafael Barreto		Top 10						Bottom 2					Winner
2	Rafael Bernardo	Top 10					Bottom 2				Bottom 2			Runner-up
3	Maria Christina		Top 10						Bottom 3			Bottom 2	Elim
4	Paulo Cremona			Top 10						Bottom 3		Elim
5	Nanda Garcia			Elim	Top 10			Bottom 2		Bottom 2	Elim
6	Lorena Chaves	Top 10				Bottom 3	Bottom 3			Elim
7	Cássia Raquel			Top 10				Bottom 3	Elim
8	Amandi Cortéz		Top 10			Bottom 2		Elim
9	Pedrinho Black	Top 10					Elim
10	Tiago Mattos			Top 10		Elim
Wild Card	Geise Rios	Elim			Elim
	Grazzi Brasil			Elim
	Mariana Bravo		Elim
	Rubens Daniel		Elim
	Sarah Raquel	Elim
Semi- Final 3	Bruna Caiala			Elim
	Daniela Ismério
	Dyggo de Deus
	Edu Louzada
	Saulo Roston
Semi- Final 2	Helen Cristina		Elim
	Larissa Carvalho
	Leila Lins
	Paulo Xavier
	Renata Bacal
Semi- Final 1	Ricardo Fé	Elim
	Thaís Barja
	Maiquel Zafanelli
	Allan Lopes
	João Klaus

External links

• Ídolos Brazil website