Juan Diego Florez is a rising Peruvian opera star who says Pavarotti remains his idol.
Swift aspires to follow in the tradition of his idol and namesake, Jonathan.
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As the newspaper noted, Mr Hun Sen sees his idol as a bringer of peace and prosperity.
He responded by saying he wanted to follow in the footsteps of his idol, Steve Jobs.
And days later, a fan of Anna Kournikova walked unchallenged into the players' lounge to meet his idol.
Searching for a reason starts with the player that made the 38-year-old Guerin sound like a child describing his idol.
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Chambers, who won Strictly Come Dancing in 2008 with partner Camilla Dallerup, said that Astaire had always been his idol.
His dream would be to work for Apple, and one day rise to the level of his idol, Steve Jobs.
Intent on getting a look at his idol, Son called Fujita's office dozens of times and flew to Tokyo to press his case.
Jess' group choose to investigate Madonna's ultimate fan, a man from Rio De Janerio who went to great lengths to meet his idol.
Nevertheless, if Kerry does pick Gephardt and ultimately wins, the senator from Massachusetts may get the most legislatively skilled VP since his idol picked LBJ.
Gradually, he decided to strive to produce a Jewish art, depicting in paint the fear and dislocation that his idol, Franz Kafka, had encapsulated in words.
It put Mailer within striking distance of his idol Ernest Hemingway who also wrote about his experiences in war and was preoccupied by questions of masculinity.
He supported his idol Louis Armstrong in 1968 during his last European tour and played at the wedding reception for the Prince and Princess of Wales in 1981.
He then rose to prominence when he joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers - replacing his idol Clifford Brown - and soon became one of the most in-demand trumpeters.
In 2001, he told WHYY's Fresh Air that he was too young to get into the clubs to see his idol so he would meet him at the subway.
When he enters one in a story contest, his idol, the popular novelist Ronald Chevalier (Jemaine Clement), passes it off as his own and turns it into a best-seller.
His mom was his idol, his rock, his foundation.
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After the war, he made stop-motion versions of fairy tales that prompted his idol, O'Brien, to hire him to help create the ape in "Mighty Joe Young, " an achievement that won an Academy Award.
After the war, he made stop-motion versions of fairy tales that prompted his idol, O'Brien, to hire him to help create the ape in Mighty Joe Young - an achievement that won an Academy Award.
The X Factor was a smash (10.2 million viewers for the finale), and when Cowell approached Fox in 2005 for renewal of his Idol contract, he threatened to sell X Factor to a competing network.
On the face of it, this was a stunning drama: a beloved Yankee testifying for the prosecution in a case against his idol and friend, one of the game's all-time greatest, a former Yankee himself.
The trumpeter, whose given name was Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II, rose to national prominence when he joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers later that year, filling the seat in the bebop group held by his idol Clifford Brown.
With this abiding classic of the 1960s, Mr. Truffaut leapfrogged back a generation to join his idol, Jean Renoir, and reasserted the virtues of naturalism and vivacity that had been treated with disdain by French directors of the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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Like his idol Donovan, Casey raided the corporate world, Wall Street, academia and so forth for the kind of people he needed -- people who thought fast, could spot a pattern with the fewest possible facts, get their point across to everyone else and hit the enemy hard.
When told at a news conference Thursday that Swan had cited his musical idol as an influence on his center-left government's economic policies, Springsteen urged caution.
Mr. Seacrest's opportunity to meet Mr. Clark came after "American Idol" made him a household name in 2002 and he cold-called his childhood idol, asking for a meeting.
But what will the man best known for his American Idol duties really bring to the table?
In the living room he has a entire bookshelf dedicated to memorabilia of Michael Jackson, his professional idol.
Mr. Kimmel, 45 years old, is a full two decades younger than his longtime idol David Letterman, who is 65.
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