Kelly Clarkson is an American singer. Born April 24, 1982 in Fort Worth in the State of Texas, she is the youngest of three siblings. His parents divorced when aged 6 years and the family scatters His brother Jason goes to live with her father, while her sister Alyssa chosen for its live with her aunt. She is studying in school Pauline G Hughes in Burleson, where she joined the choir with one of his teachers, having heard singing in the corridors, identified her as a sacred potential. She continued her education at Burleson High School and participated in talent competitions organized in the school.
His diploma studies in hand, the pretty blonde decides to pursue a career in music and not to go to university. She then moved to Hollywood and won first secondary roles on the small screen. It appears particularly in the series Sabrina, the Teenage Witch Apprentice. After some failures, she decided to return to live in the small town of Burleston. It is in the town where she was raised and during his service as a waitress in a nightclub, Kelly Clarkson heard about a program called American Idol.
The young woman auditioned and eventually win the talent show against Justin Guarini in the live broadcast Sept. 4, 2002. With his victory, Kelly Clarkson sign a contract million with RCA Records and recorded his first solo album, Thankful. This first album has not had the desired effect with the public and critics, but that does not stop the young singer who was released in 2004 a second album, Breakaway.
This disc is at the top of the charts and remained classified for a whole year! The single Because of You is probably his most famous song. In 2007 the third album of the singer was born under the name My December. This album sounds the most successful rock knows more mixed than the last. This is why Kelly Clarkson released two years later a fourth album, All I Ever Wanted, more pop oriented. It includes in particular a song written by Katy Perry, I Do Not Hook Up. The album ranks the first week in pole position Billboard 200 and stayed there for two weeks.
The fifth album from Kelly Clarkson, Stronger, was released in stores in October 2011. Overseas, it ranks second best sales upon its release with 163,000 copies. Ten singles Kelly have flown in the famous Top 10 Billboard Hot 100, and three of them have even reached the first place in this ranking. In 2009, his single " My Life Would Suck Without You "jumped from 97 th to 1 st place in the Billboard Hot 100 during its first week of release, setting a record for the largest leap to the top of Ranking in the history of music.
The same title reached the first position in the UK charts counting only the digital sales, allowing it to become the only candidate of American Idol has reached the top of the country charts. When his single " Stronger (What Does not Kill You) "topped the Billboard Dance / Club Play Song Charts in 2012, Clarkson became the only artist whose singles have reached the top of Billboard six different rankings 9. This becomes even single in July 2012 the best selling single of any candidate for American Idol than "Before He Cheats" by Carrie Underwood.
Kelly Clarkson in February 2012 is the candidate of American Idol the most successful in the United States , with total album sales of approximately 11,664,000 copies, and digital sales exceeding 24.1 million units her singles, while accumulating more than 5 million switching to the radio in his native country. Billboard Kelly Clarkson as the class e artist of the 2000s, also occupying the 9 th position of women artists in the same decade. The singer is also classified in 8 th position in the ranking by the magazine brings together the best female artists of 2009.
In 2012, VH1 class as the 19 th greatest woman in the music world today, while that Entertainment Weekly positions it as the 18 th best "artist of the moment," dubbing the "idol pop America". According to Nielsen SoundScan, Kelly Clarkson is ranked in the top 200 album sellers of the 187 th position and is the winner of American Idol to have sold the most albums worldwide including 24.2 million albums and 36 million singles sold at worldwide, making it one of the artists who sold the most albums of all time. She participated in the American version of the talent show The Voice . It serves as a mentor to candidates coached by Blake Shelton.