The auditions for season 3 started in March 2008, as in auditions for the previous seasons. There was a form to fill in the
Latin American Idol official site to try for auditions for 2008.
Top 12 (dark green), Top 30 (green) and Top 95 (light green)
Season 3 premiered on Thursday, June 19, 2008 at 9 pm in Sony Entertainment Television, with the auditions from Mexico. As
American Idol and
Canadian Idol, it also start using the new intro sequence. Episodes from
Venezuela's and
Argentina's auditions were broadcast on June 25 and June 26 respectively. Episodes from
Colombia's and
Panamá's auditions were broadcast on July 2 and July 3 respectively. Theatre Stage episodes were aired on July 9 and July 10, with the Top 30 being announced at the end of July 10 episode. Semifinals Episodes started on July 16. Finals Episodes started on August 13.
Margarita Henriquez, winner of the Latin American Idol 2008.
Semi-finalists are in alphabetical order by last name, and finalists by reverse chronological order of elimination.
Stage:
Semi-finals
Wild Card
Finals
Week:
7/16
7/23
7/30
8/6
8/13
8/20
8/27
9/4
9/11
9/18
9/25
10/2
10/9
Place
Contestant
Result
1
Margarita Henriquez
Top 12
Winner
2
Maria José Castillo
Top 12
Runner-up
3–4
Sandra Muente
Top 12
Btm 6
Elim
Pako Madrid
Elim
Top 12
Btm 6
Btm 4
Btm 3
5
Manuel Arauz
Top 12
Elim
6
José Manuel Espinoza
Top 12
Btm 4
Btm 3
Elim
7
Nicole Pillman
Top 12
Elim
8
Manuel Salas
Top 12
Btm 6
Btm 4
Elim
9
Raquel Bustamante
Elim
Top 12
Elim
10–12
Francisca Silva
Elim
Top 12
Elim
Anne Lorain Lanier
Top 12
Jesús Pardo
Top 12
Wild Card
Licetty Alfaro
Elim
Elim
Eliana Berreta
Elim
Karina Catalán
Elim
Ariana Dao Bolivar
Elim
Monserrath Franco
Elim
Yina Gallego
Elim
Semi- Final 3
Rodrigo Arizpe
Elim
Daniela Cevallos
Vanessa Leiro
Carlos Quezada
Semi- Final 2
Juan David Becerra
Elim
Osvaldo Conde
Andrea Ponce
Iván Torcates
Semi- Final 1
Sinahí Méndez
Elim
Kelly Ojeda
Ricardo Rosas
Rodrigo Tapia
As of the first three concerts, the "Bottom" contestants were not directly mentioned. Instead, this chart shows the contestants who weren't called "Saved" at the moment of declaring the eliminated contestant(s) on each concert. The contestants that don't appear as "Bottom" on a specific date were announced as "Safe" before another contestant(s) was/were announced "Eliminated".*
On the seventh concert results show, the producers decided to send the four remaining finalists to their respective countries without making the ordinary elimination. Host
Monchi Balestra announced that the votes of the seventh and eighth concerts would be merged, so the bottom two contestants would be eliminated on October 2 and the other two would pass to the final week.
All the winners of Golden Tickets went to the Theatre Stage on
Buenos Aires,
Argentina. Episodes of this stage were broadcast on July 9 and July 10. On July 10 with the final cuts made, the group of seminalists for this season was revealed.
Mexico
The contestants left out of the semi-finals from México's auditions were: