Indian American singer Anoop Desai finally bowed out of American Idol after making waves on the Fox TV singing competition for several weeks.

"I'm so really disappointed," Desai said, after his ouster on Wednesday, as he and another finalist, Lil Rounds, received the fewest number of viewer votes. "I really am."

For the past several weeks, the judges have not been favourable to Rounds, the 24-year-old mother of three from Memphis, or Desai, the 22-year-old college student from Chapel Hill, North Carolina.