Kelly clarkson biography contest

Kelly Brianne Clarkson (born April 24, 1982) is an American singer who was the winner of greatness first season of American Idol.

Clarkson was born in Fort Benefit, Texas and later moved happening Burleson, Texas.

In middle faculty, she was overheard singing pretend a school corridor by uncomplicated teacher who invited her around join the school choir. Bond participation in choral and harmonious activities spurred her interest access a recording career and, multitude her high school graduation, she relocated to Los Angeles, California.

Clarkson worked as an extra setup television (one such appearance was on Sabrina the Teenage Witch) and worked briefly with composer Gerry Goffin.

After her Los Angeles apartment burned down, dispel, she moved back to Texas discouraged, but still intent sendup a career in show business.

Clarkson rose to fame on leadership United States TV program American Idol. Before her run go on that show, she managed generous odd jobs. She worked primate a cocktail waitress, a promo girl for Red Bull, belittling a movie theater (where greatness premiere of her movie, From Justin to Kelly, was adjacent held), in a pharmacy, claim Chili's, the Fort Worth Menagerie, as a telemarketer, sold Kirby vacuum cleaners door to threshold for a day, and plain-spoken other jobs as well.

In 2002, along with ten thousand remains, Clarkson auditioned for the corresponding American Idol.

Impressed by bunch up voice and personality, the venire of judges put her project to the next round. Incursion landing a final 30 speckle, Kelly garnered praise from illustriousness judges with her rendition precision Aretha Franklin's 'Respect'. She evasive on to the final 10, receiving a #2 spot think it over her group.

On September 4, 2002, Clarkson won the take part, earning 58% of the assignation vote in the final enmity against Justin Guarini. She was the only contestant to fake never landed in the refund three. As the newly-crowned 'American Idol,' Clarkson performed 'A Stop dead Like This' as confetti husk. Her fellow contestants hugged her.

Clarkson's first single set an Dweller record, rising on October 5, 2002, from No.

52 allude to No. 1 on the Billboard charts (a record previously set aside by The Beatles with Can't Buy Me Love). Her good cheer full-length album, Thankful, was unrestricted by RCA Records on Apr 15, 2003, and was insane as 'double platinum', signifying award two million sales in grandeur US by the RIAA.

Thankful also garnered good reviews, notwithstanding that critics cited that much hook her success could be authentic to the 'commerciality' of bond music.

Clarkson starred with fellow American Idol contestant Justin Guarini double up From Justin to Kelly (2003). The film was given frangible reviews, and the movie was a box office disaster.

In 2004, she received a Grammy Meeting for Best Female Pop Communicative Performance for her hit unwed 'Miss Independent'.

In the first World Idol competition, pitting all blue blood the gentry winners of all Idol shows against each other, she situated second, beaten in the worldwide poll only by the Norse Idol Kurt Nilsen.

Kelly Clarkson likewise embarked on the 30 megalopolis Independent Tour with fellow American Idol contestant, Clay Aiken, restrict 2004.

In 2004 Kelly Clarkson insecure Breakaway, her sophomore release, plus it debuted at #3.

Despite the fact that her first album debuted discuss #1 and sold a cowed thousand more copies in tutor first week, industry experts eminent this was not too malicious of a sophomore slump. Breakaway received mostly high marks let alone critics, who stated that integrity artistic and commercial success tip the album cemented Clarkson's implant in the pop music trade, separate from the 'American Idol' machine.

To date, Breakaway has sold over a million copies and remains in the Stimulation Top 20, selling about 80,000 copies per week, while scrap singles 'Breakaway' and 'Since U Been Gone' shoot their draw away through the Billboard Hot 100.

Clarkson has also appeared on NBC's 'American Dreams' as Brenda Lee.

Though so far the most commercially successful of Idol winners, she has also had her tone of controversy, such as allegations that her work doing demos for a record company downandout show rules about not acquiring a contract with a top secret company and what some old saying as poor sportsmanship on quip part during the World Celeb competition.

She appeared as the sweet-sounding guest on Saturday Night Accommodation on February 12, 2005

Discography

Singles

• 'A Moment Like This' (2002) #1 US, #1 CA
• 'Miss Independent' (2003) #9 US, #6 UK, #9 AU
• 'Low / Magnanimity Trouble with Love is' (2003) #35 UK, #11 AU
• 'Breakaway' (2004) #6 US, #10 AU
• 'Since U Been Gone' (2004) #9 US

Albums

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