Watch: Jimmy Kimmel brings back American Idol 2006 sensation Sanjaya Malakar

As the American Idol 2018 finale was playing out, television talk show host Jimmy Kimmel walked out on stage, followed by a so-called time capsule, in which, he claimed, memorabilia from past shows had been buried.

Pulling out some of them with accompanying jokes, Kimmel pretended to be astonished when a former star, Sanjaya Malakar, also emerged. The American singer, who is partly of Indian origin, had appeared on the 2006 edition as a teenager with his sister Shyamali, and made it to the final, where he earned a high share of the public vote.

Here is their audition.

PS: Also on the show, finalists Caleb Lee Hutchinson, who came second, and Maddie Poppe, who won admitted they were dating each other. Here’s the winning performance.