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Jordin Sparks
Jordin Brianna Sparks Smith is an American singer and actress. She rose to fame in 2007 after winning the sixth season of American Idol at age 17, becoming the youngest winner in the series' history. Her 2007 self-titled debut studio album was met with critical and commercial success; it peaked at number ten on the Billboard 200, received platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (…
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Born 22 December 1989 · Q215300
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2026· 12 entries
Published video “H.A.G.S.! - Summertime Memories | Jordin Sparks”.
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Published video “We Own The Night | Jordin Sparks x Avello”.
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Published video “Metamorphosis - The In Between | Jordin Sparks”.
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Published video “Dana Takes Over -- Who is Jordin Sparks? PART 1 | Jordin Sparks”.
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Published video “Soft Living, Big Dreams & Building a Life You Love with Kenzie Elizabeth | Jordin Sparks”.
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Published video “"This or That?" Relationship Edition with Dana | Jordin Sparks”.
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Published video “Ask Me Anything - Part 4 | Jordin Sparks”.
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Published video “Compatability, Perspecitves & Father's Day with Dana | Jordin Sparks”.
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Published video “Special Edition - INDY 500 | Jordin Sparks”.
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Published video “TREAT YO'SELF - Part 1 Things Worth SPLURGING ON! | Jordin Sparks”.
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2024· 2 entries
Released ep “Joy”.
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Released album “No Restrictions”.
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2023· 4 entries
Released ep “The Gift of Christmas”.
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Sparks sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" before the third game of the 2023 World Series
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Sparks announced the upcoming release of her new single off her upcoming album, "Call My Name", on October 13
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Sparks entered into a successful partnership with the soundtracking platform Epidemic Sound
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2021· 1 entry
Sparks competed on The Masked Dancer as "Exotic Bird" and finished in fifth place
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2020· 3 entries
Released album “Cider & Hennessy”.
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Released ep “Sounds Like Me”.
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After over five years of not releasing any solo music, Sparks returned with the single "Unknown"
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2019· 2 entries
Released ep “1990 Forever”.
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Sparks released 1990 Forever, a joint EP with R&B singer Elijah Blake
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2018· 2 entries
Sparks gave birth to her first child, a son
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Sparks stated in an interview with OK magazine that she was recording her fourth album
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2017· 2 entries
Sparks married Dana Isaiah (born: Dana Isaiah Thomas), a fitness model, in Hawaii
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Sparks joined Thomas Rhett and Molly Sims in judging Miss America 2018
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2016· 2 entries
Food Network aired "Keep it Simple, Sparks", a pilot episode of Sparks's potential series Sugar and Sparks, focusing on her dream to own her own bakery and mastering the baking industry with the help of Duff Goldman
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Sparks parted ways with her record company, Louder Than Life
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2015· 2 entries
Released album “Right Here Right Now”.
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Double Tap, the first single for Sparks's album became available for pre-order
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2014· 6 entries
As a promotional single from Sparks's third album
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Released ep “#ByeFelicia”.
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The film's shooting began on August 9, 2013, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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Sparks's label released a promotional single for Left Behind, titled "I Wish We'd All Been Ready", which became available on music outlets the same day
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Salaam Remi took to Instagram to preview the logo for his new label, Louder than Life, a subsidiary of Sony Music
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It was announced that Sparks would be hosting the 2014 Billboard Music Awards 'Samsung Red Carpet', alongside Lance Bass and Ted Stryker
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2013· 4 entries
Sparks partnered with Glade and the Young People's Chorus of New York City to release a brand new Christmas holiday anthem "This Is My Wish"
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It was announced that Sparks would guest star in an upcoming episode in the fourteenth season of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
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It was announced that Sparks had signed on to join the cast of the action science fiction-thriller film Left Behind
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It was announced that the first promotional track from her upcoming third studio album would be released in August
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2012· 8 entries
Before Sparks presented the fragrance at an official launch party in Milwaukee on December 1, 2012
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It was announced that Sparks was releasing her third fragrance Ambition
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Sparks stated in an interview with Billboard, that she had about seven songs set so far for her third album
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It was officially announced that Sparks would star in her second film, an indie drama titled "'The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete'"
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Awarded Soul Train Music Award for Best Gospel/Inspirational Song for Celebrate (2012).
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"Celebrate", the last song Whitney Houston recorded with Sparks, premiered at RyanSeacrest
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Sparks's boyfriend Jason Derulo took to Twitter announcing the official remix of his single "It Girl" featuring Sparks
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Sparks was ranked at number 92 on VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Women in Music"
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2011· 5 entries
It was announced that Sparks had recorded an original song called "Angels Are Singing" as a part of ABC Family's "12 Dates of Christmas"
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RCA Music Group announced it was disbanding Jive Records along with Arista Records and J Records
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It was announced that Sparks would be making her feature film debut playing the lead role in the music-themed pic Sparkle, a remake of the 1976 film inspired by the story of The Supremes
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Sparks had her first-ever bikini shoot for the cover of People's Most Amazing Bodies issue
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It was revealed that Sparks would release a non-album single, "I Am Woman"
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2010· 5 entries
Stopping in over 35 major cities in the United States
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Sparks took part in a tribute to Simon Cowell with other former contestants at the ninth season finale
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It was announced that Sparks would join the cast of the Broadway show In the Heights as Nina Rosario
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Was also featured on the Big Time Rush song "Count on You", and the show with the same name, "Big Time Sparks" which aired on June 18
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As well as Fascinate and Ambition in 2012
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2009· 6 entries
Released album “Battlefield”.
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Awarded People's Choice Awards (2009).
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And reached number ten on the Billboard Hot 100
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Sparks performed "Faith" at the Commander-in-Chief's Inaugural Ball hosted by President Barack Obama during the First inauguration of Barack Obama
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Sparks made her acting debut on Disney's The Suite Life on Deck, guest starring as herself in the "Crossing Jordin" episode, which aired on October 23
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Billboard magazine ranked her as the 91st Artist of the 2000s Decade
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2008· 5 entries
Awarded NAACP Image Award for Outstanding New Artist (2008).
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Awarded American Music Award for Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist (2008).
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Sparks sang the National Anthem at Super Bowl XLII
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“I am so excited that Wet Seal and I have been able to create a line of clothing that will appeal to more girls than ever before.”
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“Traveling to Ghana with Malaria No More gives me the incredible opportunity to see for myself what a difference a simple mosquito net can make in the life of a child.”
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2007· 7 entries
Which debuted at number ten on the Billboard 200
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Released album “Jordin Sparks”.
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At the age of 17, Sparks won the sixth season of American Idol
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Released ep “Jordin Sparks”.
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Sparks signed to 19 Recordings/Jive Records, becoming the first Idol winner to join the label
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After winning the sixth season of American Idol at age 17, becoming the youngest winner in the series' history
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Sparks has returned to Idol six times
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2006· 2 entries
Sparks was one of six winners of the Phoenix Torrid search for the "Next Plus Size Model"
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Released ep “For Now”.
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1989· 1 entry
Born 1989-12-22.
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