Kelly Clarkson

   
Artist: Kelly Clarkson

   Genre(s): 
Pop
   Rock
   House
   Vocal
   Rock: Pop-Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Never Again

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 2


   
 My December

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 13


   
 Breakaway

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 12


   
 Because of You CDM

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 8


   
 Thankful

   Year:    
Tracks: 12

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The winner of Fox TV's first American Idol: The Search for a Superstar competition during the summertime of 2002, Kelly Clarkson went from an anonymous gift to a nationwide known isaac Bashevis Singer, playing for an audience of millions of viewers. One of the show's nigh by nature gifted singers, the 20-year-old Burleson, TX, native's vocal talents were observed when she was in seventh degree, when her school's choir teacher heard her telling and urged Clarkson to bring together the choir. After heights schoolhouse, Clarkson civilised her voice and went to Hollywood to score her describe; she appeared as an duplicate on an episode of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch only no other opportunities materialized.


Upon reversive to Burleson, Clarkson worked at a moving picture house, promoted Red Bull vim drinks, and at last worked as a cocktail waitress at a comedy club ahead ingress the American Idol contest. One of 10,000 aspiring singers, Clarkson grand herself non only with her big, surprisingly mature representative, only as well with her earthy charm and signified of humour; at one of her auditions, she switched places with pass judgment Randy Jackson, wHO did an impromptu version of R. Kelly's "I Believe I Can Fly." Over the form of the 13-week point, her consistently warm performances of songs like "Respect," "Natural Woman," "Stuff Like That There," and "Without You" earned Clarkson sufficiency audience votes to claim unmatchable of the contest's 2 finalist positions. After singing "A Moment Like This" and "In front Your Love," both of which were written for the show, Clarkson won the American Idol contest with 58 percent of the audience's votes. In addition to the show's award of one meg dollars and a recording contract with RCA, Clarkson secured a deal with Creative Artists Agency and several bookings, including the national American Idol tour and a performance of the national anthem at the September 11 memorialisation at Washington, D.C.'s Lincoln Memorial.


Scorn her newfound fame, Clarkson opted to rest in Texas rather than strike to New York or Los Angeles. Her first single, "A Moment Like This," was released just deuce weeks afterward she south Korean won the contest and speedily earned pt gross sales. Clarkson's debut full-length, Thankful, was released in spring of 2003, exactly in time to cooccur with the sec season of American Idol and right before the American Idol picture, From Justin to Kelly. Breakaway followed in recent 2004 and was a immense success, merchandising over pentad 1000000 copies (making it the third best-selling record album of 2005) and spawning the hit singles "Because of You," "Behind These Hazel Eyes," and "Since U Been Gone." That song and Breaking away earned Grammys for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and Best Pop Vocal Album, respectively, at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards in early 2006. Clarkson continued her busy touring agenda that spring and summer and announced plans for her tierce record album.


In 2007, Clarkson released My December the studio followup to Breaking away. Notable as Clarkson's first raid into authorship or co-writing most of the songs, My December had a darker, even more than rock-oriented edge than its predecessor and fifty-fifty featured a guest appearance by hood ikon bassist Mike Watt.