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Age: 19
Occupation: Student / Mechanic
Hometown: Burlington, NL
Audition City: St. John's, NL
Place of Birth: Dawson Creek, BC
Nickname: "Box"
Sounds Like: Jim Cuddy
Identifies With: Bruce Springsteen
Musical Style: Jazz/Big Band/Rock/Country
Fashion Style: "T-shirt and Jeans"
Motto: "If it's meant to be, it will be."
"I want to represent Newfoundland the way she deserves: with guts and glory."
Rex Goudie began singing for his grandmother at the age of three. "Nan would have me going around the house singing Sunday School songs and occasionally a bit of folk music," he says. "She never had me leave a room without singing her a song." He first began singing in public a year later. With a diverse musical taste ranging from Frank Sinatra to AC/DC, Rex formed a band with three of his friends when he was 16 called the "Purple Monkey Band Squad." He considers Canadian Idol a great opportunity. "It's been a bit of a struggle finding a place to sing," he says. "I'm from a tiny port community ? not the best place for a guy to want to start a music career."
Rex is now enrolled at Memorial University where he hopes to study mechanical engineering. A self-described "car nut," Goudie works as a mechanic for his father's trucking company during the summer. He calls himself a "decent" hockey player and says he's "proud to be known as a nice guy." Rex likes to snowmobile and loves to eat alouettes. "Moose meat and spices ? beautiful!" His favourite movie is The Fast and the Furious and he can't part with this white ball cap. "Maybe if I win I'll throw it into the crowd," he says.
Rex says he couldn't live without his guitar. "It's been there for me through some of the toughest times of my life." The song title that best describes him? The Blues Man, by Alan Jackson. "The lyrics go: He's a singer, a natural born guitar ringer, kind of a clinger, to sad old songs. He's not a walk behinder, he's a new note finder, his name's a reminder of a blues man that's already gone. That song fits me to a tee," he says.
