Jena Irene Asciutto

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Season 13's Idols go live tonight in Binghamton

...Jena's future in the music industry is less certain (than Caleb's): She's not signed to a record deal yet, but she's "on hold" with Idol producer 19 Entertainment and will find out after the tour if she'll be signed. In the meantime, she'll try to squeeze in songwriting when she can during the tour.

"We're going to be on a bus the whole time, so it's going to be really hard to write music," she says. "But the whole journey's going to be very inspiring and there's going to be a lot of new song topics to write about."

After the show ended May 21, Jena graduated from North Farmington High School in Farmington Hills, Mich., having studied math, English, forensic science and astronomy during her Idol tenure. Regardless of where her music career goes, she'll be taking online classes at Western Michigan University in the fall.

...Looking ahead, Jena would love to record music with Zedd, while Caleb's dream collaborations include Slash, Matthew Bellamy and Chris Cornell.

"I watched the show when Carrie Underwood was on and a couple seasons after that, but I never thought I was going to audition for any kind of show like that," Jena says.

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