JB- Now, you mention about the process you use the word frustrations, and it's really pressing, it's a really taxing time. You're going through so much, your schedule is crazy. Did at any point did this Idol experience make you think that maybe this isn't the path, maybe music isn't what I should be doing? Did it ever get you to that point?

VS- No, it never got me to that point, but it got me to the point where I wanted to call my dad and my brothers come to talk to a couple people for me. (laughing)

JB- You mean to beat them up? Is that what you mean?

VS- (laughing) Just jack 'em up and tell them to leave me alone. (continues laughing)

JB- Since the show you've obviously continued with your music. What's happened since? Let's fast forward a few years. What's happened since your time on Idol?

VS- Well, since Idol I got the experience of my first tour with my Idol family and it was really cool, in summer 2005, and in winter 2005, I was on tour as a spokesperson with the postal service. That was really cool. I travelled around the country and I visited almost every state and got a good rapport with my postal family. It was really cool, because I got to do some events for the postmaster general and his secret servicemen were everywhere, so I felt like I was Princess Di or something.

JB- You could send his people to go rough up, well, never mind.

VS- (laughing) You're right. I never thought of that!

JB- Make some calls.

VS- It was after Idol was over and I was, like, "Whatever."

JB- Well, if you ever need protection or anyone to stick up for you.

VS- Watch out, because we'll go postal in a good way. So it was really cool doing that, and it got me a lot of exposure. I was on Good Morning, America. That was the first time I had ever seen snow, and I was like, "Oh, my god." It was so beautiful, but it was like torture. I was out there all day in the ice rink. My father and I were freezing.

Also, I did a Christmas album; it's a compilation album. It was exclusively sold at the postal service. It was called Dear Santa, and Alicia Keys, Nat King Cole, Nick Lachey; there were a lot of good, really well known people on the album, and just to be associated with that album, my album. So that was exciting. What else? I made a cameo in an independent film called Still Green.

One of my aspirations is to be on Broadway and get my foot wet on film and everything to see how that goes, so that was really cool. I'm trying to remember everything, because there was a lot.

JB- It's interesting how quickly all of this stuff can happen.

VS- I know. I'm just so grateful for the opportunity to be on American Idol, because it opened up so many doors, I can't even tell you. I don't know any other road I could take that could take me from delivering the mail one day, it was like a matter of a month, and then the next month I was on TV and everybody knew my name, and I was like, "Oh, my gosh."

So what else did I do? I'm working on my album right now. I had some offers to sign with some major labels, but I didn't want to compromise who I am as a person, so I started my own label with my dad. It's called Melodic Records. I started my own publishing company, because I write and arrange my own music, so I've been working on my album for about a year and I have single coming out this summer called Can't Move On. My album should be released by the end of the year, and I have a website, www.officialbabyv.com, where you can stay abreast of everything that's going on in my career.

I also just came off tour with Miss Debbie Reynolds and Anthony Federov of season 4. We were in a show called Simply Ballroom, which came from the U.K. and it made its American debut this year in the U.S. We had a blast. It was about ballroom dances from all over the world, and there were champion dancers and couples. It was like Dancing with the Stars meets American Idol. We had a great time and all the dancers and Anthony and I we're around the same age, and they have some different places around the world. So when we were on tour we would hang out and it was just cool to get to know them on a personal level. They even try to teach us some of the dances. It was kind of crazy. Ms. Debbie was like our grandmother and she looked out for everybody. She's so sweet. I love her. So I had a really nice time, but the main thing I'm grateful for from American Idol is just me being able to do what I love to do, and get paid to do it and I make a living singing now. So I'm really, really thankful for American Idol.

JB- You're a busy gal, and you know what I figured out this is why my mail has been late.

VS- Oh, I'm so sorry.

JB- I'm just kidding.

VS- I'm going to have to come there and light a fire under them.

JB- Send your dad and your other people. Send them up here to help me out.

VS- Yes, but if you give them a little gift or something, I think it will be incentive for them to get it right for you.

JB- You know what we'll do, when we're off the air I'll get your address and I'll send you a box of snow. Would that help?

VS- Oh, no! (laughing) I'll send you some sunshine.

JB- We need that. It's cloudy and grey, but the sunshine is here, like I said at the beginning, because you're joining us on the phone.

JB- So, we're going to fast forward five years from now. Where is Baby V? What's happening? What's the plan?

VS- Baby V will be one of the biggest stars in the world and she will be a businesswoman, and let's see, a great entertainer. I want to be an actress.

JB- And she'll have the nicest heels around.

VS- Oh, yes. Hopefully, I'll have a clothing line or something, because I have a lot of aspirations. I'll hopefully have been on Broadway, and hopefully …I started a foundation last year in my home town, it's called the Vonzell Baby V Solomon Foundation, and we're looking to enrich our youth's lives, because we have a lot of crime. I wanted to build a building for kids to go and have a positive place to just realize what they want to do with their lives, because there's a vicious cycle in Fort Myers, Fla., where everybody's falling into and it's not good. So I see people I've grown up with and they're on drugs, or in jail. I want to try help save our youth. Hopefully, in five years I'll have a nice big building where kids can come and hang out and just have a positive place to go and have mentors and have some other help outside their home to help guide their life. I don't know about a family yet, honey. I'm not ready for that.

JB- And if they can get past dad, they're lucky, too.

VS- Oh, yeah, because a lot of people in my town, I grew up in martial arts since I was five, and my dad is a karate instructor. He has a school here, so everybody would be scared of us, and it's four of us, so they'd call us the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and they'd call my dad Splinter. They would. Then I started dating in high school, and guys would be devastated to meet my dad. They were like, "He's not even mean or anything." But other people outside of Fort Myers, they don't know that I have a black belt and that my dad is a martial artist, but when they find out they get all shaken up and everything. So hopefully, I can star in a martial arts movie or something.

JB- So there you go. There's another idea for you. Wow, it's great to hear you have so much ambition and drive and still very down to earth and philanthropic. I don't know how many other words there are to describe you, Vonzell Solomon.

VS- Oh, thank you, Jeremy. I appreciate you.

JB- No problem. Well, thanks very much for giving us the update, and I'm sure we'll check in with you soon.

VS- OK, thank you. You have a wonderful day. I hope you guys get some sunshine.

JB- Well, we just did for the last half hour or so.

VS- Oh, well thank you! (laughing)