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Cassandra Beth "Casey" LeBlanc (born on November 4th, 1987) was a contestant on the 2005 edition of the popular reality television show Canadian Idol. The eldest daughter of Constance and Leo LeBlanc, she is from Nackawic, New Brunswick. In the Top 32 round, she sang Sam Cooke's "Bring it on Home to Me" which earned her a place in the Top 10. Songs that Casey performed include:

Top 32: "Bring It On Home to Me"
Top 10: "From This Moment" (Canadian Hits week)
Top 9: "Heaven Help Us All" (Stevie Wonder week)
Top 8: "Like A Prayer" (Eighties week)
Top 7: "I Could Write a Book" (Big Band week)
Top 6: "I'll Stand By You" (Classic Rock week)
Top 5: "Timeless Love" (The Guess Who week)

On the August 10, 2005 results show, Casey was in the bottom three for the first time in the competition. The next week, however, Casey was back in the top three following a performance on "I'll Stand By You" which was lauded by the four judges. Though she had been dogged by criticism that she'd been kept alive all along by regional voting (especially in her home province of New Brunswick), there was a glitch in the Aliant telephone system which kept much of the province from voting that night, and still she placed in the top half. Her fans had asserted that this was an indication of a strong national following.

However, on the August 24 show, despite contentions by the judges that she had her best performance so far on the show, she received the fewest votes and was sent home.

On September 25, 2005, the Town of Nackawic celebrated her success by naming a street after her. A section of Route 105 running near the town is now known as Casey Way. On that day, Casey was honored at a celebration in the park. She arrived at the festival by helicopter and sang three songs, including her signature theme, Bring It On Home.

In October 2005, Casey became a spokesperson for the New Brunswick Laubach Literacy Foundation, a group with promotes adult literacy acquisition. She also appeared at several other community and charity events throughout the province during the fall of 2005.

On November 23, 2005, Casey appeared before a crowd of over 1400 fans in her first major concert. The University of New Brunswick's Aitken Centre was the venue for this concert in which Casey was backed up by the Halifax band, Shaydid. She sang many of the songs she had performed on Canadian Idol, including Stevie Wonder's Heaven Help Us All, The Guess Who's Timeless Love, The Pretenders' I'll Stand By You, and Sam Cooke's Bring It On Home.

LeBlanc has formed a currently unnamed group with fellow former season 3 contestants Ashley Leitao and Amber Fleury. It is believed to be the first time in any Idol series that more than one competitor have formed a permanent group. They are currently working on an album release, which is expected during the summer of 2006.

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