Paris Bennett, 19, who finished fifth on season five of the Fox
singing show "American Idol," is pregnant, according to
StarTribune.com, the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune newspaper's Web
site.

She is expecting a girl in October, the Web site reported. Two of her
family members in Rockford were not immediately available for comment
today.

The site said that Bennett's mother, Jamecia Bennett, confirmed her
daughter's pregnancy but she did not identify the father. Paris was
born in Rockford but raised mostly in Edina, Minn., near Minneapolis.

Paris sang in 2006 at the Coronado Performing Arts Center in Rockford
and in 2007 at Macedonia Baptist Church in Rockford, where her
great-grandfather, the Rev. Perry Bennett, is pastor.

Ann Nesby, who was lead singer for the Grammy Award-winning group
Sounds of Blackness, is Paris' grandmother.