After placing third on his season of American Idol, he signed to 19 Recordings and RCA Nashville. His first release was a single “My Best Days Are Ahead of Me” and his debut album, My Best Days, was released in 2010. After leaving RCA Nashville in 2011, he moved his music toward adult pop/contemporary christian and made his second album, Hope In Front Of Me. In 2011, Gokey became engaged to his new wife, Leyicet Peralta, and the two were married in 2012. Their son, Daniel Emanuel, was born on January 20, 2013 and Gokey remains active in the charity he set up for his first wife, Sophia’s Heart Foundation.