Christopher Chris Rene (previously Rene; born December 25 1982) is an American singer-songwriter musician and producer from Santa Cruz California. He had been in a band called Diversion and also had a solo career including the album Soul'd Out. Chris auditioned for the first season of The X Factor USA with one of his original compositions Young Homie and was one of the finalists during season one with L.A. Reid as his mentor. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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