Kelly Brianne Clarkson (Fort Worth (Texas), April 24, 1982) is an American singer. She was winner of American Idol in 2002.
Kelly Brianne Clarkson was born in the U.S. state of Texas, where she spent her childhood. She is the third and youngest child of Jeanne Ann Rose, a teacher of Greek and Irish descent, and Stephen Michael Clarkson, a former engineer of Welsh descent.
Clarkson was not an easy youth, especially by the divorce of her parents - she was six years old. In the song Because of You from 2005, they incorporated this theme. Her brother went to live with her father, her sister with her aunt and Kelly stayed with her mother.
Clarkson was a girl who likes to sing, and at age thirteen, she was asked to sing in the choir at her high school. This offer took them and from this moment she had the chance to train her voice. When Clarkson graduated from the school won, she decided with a friend to Los Angeles to move to go along with doing auditions and demos to send to record companies.
Clarkson and her friend had just withdrawn a few hours in their apartment when the apartment completely burnt. At the time of the fire, they were not present in the building. This meant the immediate end of the trip and they returned to Texas.
Winning American Idol in 2002, for which she was notified by friends, gave Clarkson a recording contract with RCA and her dream came true: recording an album. But Clarkson was willing to take time for her album, so she spent first in the United States a double a-side single: A Moment Like This and Before Your Love. The former reached the # 1 position on the Billboard Hot 100.
A year later the debut album Thankful, with the lead single from Miss Independent, along with singer Christina Aguilera written. Then came two more singles: Low, and The Trouble With Love Is. The latter was featured on the soundtrack of Love Actually. With Miss Independent Clarkson also broke through internationally.
Clarkson wanted her second album, compared to the first, would get a more unique sound. This resulted in the best-selling Breakaway, an album with a powerful pop-rock sound and many potential hits. The album appeared in late 2004 in the United States and was an outright success.
The first single Breakaway (written with Avril Lavigne) ended up, despite the popformaat, in her home country at number 6 in part because the song was the soundtrack of the film The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement. In the Netherlands the number as fifth single.
Weeks after the single was released, this was still high in the charts in the United States. Six months after the appearance of the single spent the second single Clarkson Since U Been Gone from. It Clarkson sings about being single after the breakup of a relationship. It reached the fourth spot in the Dutch Top 40.
Successor Behind These Hazel Eyes was also successful. In mid-2005 was Kelly with all three singles in the same U.S. charts, something that rarely occurs. The fourth single Because of You (a ballad) was her most personal. On 31 December 2005, Because of You in the Dutch Top 40 and on 28 January 2006 stood at No. 1.
Then came the fifth single from Breakaway from: Walk Away. This was less successful than its predecessors. This single has never reached the Dutch charts because the record company released Breakaway again - due to the increased popularity of the singer Breakaway now that they hoped would catch on.
And indeed came the song, albeit cautiously, the top ten for several weeks to stay there too. In the United States was the song Gone picked up by radio stations but it was not released on single.
After the release of Breakaway Clarkson went on tour - first with the Breakaway Tour and then the Hazel Eyes Tour. In December 2005, Kelly gave some concerts in Australia, and from February 2006 a number of shows in Europe gave. From the album Breakaway worldwide are now approximately eleven million units sold. This is because the album in the summer of 2005 in Europe (special edition) has been released.
On 22 June 2007 came from the album My December. Clarkson was present and active on this album was also co-written more songs. The result was a more mature sound of the singer. The first single from her new album Never Again, was released on 13 april. In the Netherlands the number named Disk Alarm on Radio 538.
In spite of the achievement of the American top 10, Never Again dropped rather quickly because the very little on the radio has been rotated. Therefore decided to record the second single, Sober, Never Again for two months to bring - while they made an error in judgment by a week later the single to radio stations to send.
Since then the number dropped again in the charts, it was not on the radio. Rumors about the fight between record executive Clive Davis and Clarkson were in the media.
Despite the negativity the album My December came in at number seven in the Dutch Album Top 100. In the U.S., the album came in second place, surpassing the first week sales numbers of Breakaway.
The album quickly disappeared from the lists because the record company gave little attention to promoting the album. Clarkson fired her manager, canceled her My December tour, and looked for someone better suited to her and had the same vision. He found them in the person of Reba McEntire, a famous country singer. Clarkson scored a big hit with Because of You, a Grammy-nominated duet with McEntire.
After the controversy surrounding My December, she started in September with the promotion in Australia, where the rumors had little influence on the sales and Clarkson just in the top 10 remained. One minute it was released as a single and did very well. After My December My December Tour followed the World Tour. This gave her 5 and 6 April 2008 to Belgium and the Netherlands.
For her fourth album, Clarkson worked among others with producer Ryan Tedder, who was responsible for including Leona Lewis' Bleeding Love. He described the songs he was working for the album as: with "big choruses" and "heavy drum programming".
Some songs are inspired by the electro-rock band Garbage, and a midtempo rock ballad that an experimental bridge inspired by Mozart. [1] In a radio interview reported the singer that they are on the song Irvine from the album My December a sequel was written entitled I Finally Got It Right, finally got this song not the album. On 9 January 2009, Clarkson's album title is known in her newsletter.
The first single My Life Would Suck Without You was a week later download. The song did very well in the charts and made a comeback by both the United States and the United Kingdom to reach the first place.
The song set a record by the biggest leap in the history of the U.S. charts to make a record that they already broke in 2002 with A moment like this. The single was its best performing single in the Dutch Top 40 and reached the third place.
The album was released on March 10, 2009. [2] It debuted in the Netherlands and Flanders in sixth place. In her homeland was the album in the first place.
The second single was I Do Not Hook Up chosen - this was less successful than previous ones, but nevertheless achieved in most countries, the top twenty.
The third single was chosen Already Gone. After the track at the 70th spot had entered the Billboard Hot 100 in March 2009, after releasing the album, Already Gone was the third single released on August 11, 2009. The single reached the thirteenth position in the United States, the twelfth position in Australia and the fifteenth in three other countries, but did not in most countries the top 20.
The fourth single in the United States, All I Ever Wanted, the title song of the album was a hit and kept stabbing at the 96th place in the Hot 100.
In November 2009, Clarkson was interviewed by MTV. It gave them to be busy with writing songs for her fifth album. That album is titled Stronger and was (in the United States) on 25 October 2011. In the Netherlands, released the album on October 21.
Clarkson co-wrote about half the songs on the album. Clarkson has stated in interviews that You Love Me by far her favorite song on the album. Also Darkside calls them sometimes as a favorite.
The first single from the album, "Mr.. Know It All", was released on 30 August 2011. Clarkson showed the number (the studio version, not live) in a live webcast on its official website to hear. Then the number on 5 september available on iTunes.
Clarkson has the number several times on television shows in the United States were performed. This has led to the single, after the release of the album, in early November 2011 the top ten of the U.S. Hot 100 earned. In South Korea, and Australia won Mr. Know It All, even the top position. In the Netherlands the single never got past 9 in the place tipparade.
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Clarkson and her friend had just withdrawn a few hours in their apartment when the apartment completely burnt. At the time of the fire, they were not present in the building. This meant the immediate end of the trip and they returned to Texas.
Winning American Idol in 2002, for which she was notified by friends, gave Clarkson a recording contract with RCA and her dream came true: recording an album. But Clarkson was willing to take time for her album, so she spent first in the United States a double a-side single: A Moment Like This and Before Your Love. The former reached the # 1 position on the Billboard Hot 100.
A year later the debut album Thankful, with the lead single from Miss Independent, along with singer Christina Aguilera written. Then came two more singles: Low, and The Trouble With Love Is. The latter was featured on the soundtrack of Love Actually. With Miss Independent Clarkson also broke through internationally.
Clarkson wanted her second album, compared to the first, would get a more unique sound. This resulted in the best-selling Breakaway, an album with a powerful pop-rock sound and many potential hits. The album appeared in late 2004 in the United States and was an outright success.
The first single Breakaway (written with Avril Lavigne) ended up, despite the popformaat, in her home country at number 6 in part because the song was the soundtrack of the film The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement. In the Netherlands the number as fifth single.
Weeks after the single was released, this was still high in the charts in the United States. Six months after the appearance of the single spent the second single Clarkson Since U Been Gone from. It Clarkson sings about being single after the breakup of a relationship. It reached the fourth spot in the Dutch Top 40.
Successor Behind These Hazel Eyes was also successful. In mid-2005 was Kelly with all three singles in the same U.S. charts, something that rarely occurs. The fourth single Because of You (a ballad) was her most personal. On 31 December 2005, Because of You in the Dutch Top 40 and on 28 January 2006 stood at No. 1.
Then came the fifth single from Breakaway from: Walk Away. This was less successful than its predecessors. This single has never reached the Dutch charts because the record company released Breakaway again - due to the increased popularity of the singer Breakaway now that they hoped would catch on.
And indeed came the song, albeit cautiously, the top ten for several weeks to stay there too. In the United States was the song Gone picked up by radio stations but it was not released on single.
After the release of Breakaway Clarkson went on tour - first with the Breakaway Tour and then the Hazel Eyes Tour. In December 2005, Kelly gave some concerts in Australia, and from February 2006 a number of shows in Europe gave. From the album Breakaway worldwide are now approximately eleven million units sold. This is because the album in the summer of 2005 in Europe (special edition) has been released.
On 22 June 2007 came from the album My December. Clarkson was present and active on this album was also co-written more songs. The result was a more mature sound of the singer. The first single from her new album Never Again, was released on 13 april. In the Netherlands the number named Disk Alarm on Radio 538.
In spite of the achievement of the American top 10, Never Again dropped rather quickly because the very little on the radio has been rotated. Therefore decided to record the second single, Sober, Never Again for two months to bring - while they made an error in judgment by a week later the single to radio stations to send.
Since then the number dropped again in the charts, it was not on the radio. Rumors about the fight between record executive Clive Davis and Clarkson were in the media.
Despite the negativity the album My December came in at number seven in the Dutch Album Top 100. In the U.S., the album came in second place, surpassing the first week sales numbers of Breakaway.
The album quickly disappeared from the lists because the record company gave little attention to promoting the album. Clarkson fired her manager, canceled her My December tour, and looked for someone better suited to her and had the same vision. He found them in the person of Reba McEntire, a famous country singer. Clarkson scored a big hit with Because of You, a Grammy-nominated duet with McEntire.
After the controversy surrounding My December, she started in September with the promotion in Australia, where the rumors had little influence on the sales and Clarkson just in the top 10 remained. One minute it was released as a single and did very well. After My December My December Tour followed the World Tour. This gave her 5 and 6 April 2008 to Belgium and the Netherlands.
For her fourth album, Clarkson worked among others with producer Ryan Tedder, who was responsible for including Leona Lewis' Bleeding Love. He described the songs he was working for the album as: with "big choruses" and "heavy drum programming".
Some songs are inspired by the electro-rock band Garbage, and a midtempo rock ballad that an experimental bridge inspired by Mozart. [1] In a radio interview reported the singer that they are on the song Irvine from the album My December a sequel was written entitled I Finally Got It Right, finally got this song not the album. On 9 January 2009, Clarkson's album title is known in her newsletter.
The first single My Life Would Suck Without You was a week later download. The song did very well in the charts and made a comeback by both the United States and the United Kingdom to reach the first place.
The song set a record by the biggest leap in the history of the U.S. charts to make a record that they already broke in 2002 with A moment like this. The single was its best performing single in the Dutch Top 40 and reached the third place.
The album was released on March 10, 2009. [2] It debuted in the Netherlands and Flanders in sixth place. In her homeland was the album in the first place.
The second single was I Do Not Hook Up chosen - this was less successful than previous ones, but nevertheless achieved in most countries, the top twenty.
The third single was chosen Already Gone. After the track at the 70th spot had entered the Billboard Hot 100 in March 2009, after releasing the album, Already Gone was the third single released on August 11, 2009. The single reached the thirteenth position in the United States, the twelfth position in Australia and the fifteenth in three other countries, but did not in most countries the top 20.
The fourth single in the United States, All I Ever Wanted, the title song of the album was a hit and kept stabbing at the 96th place in the Hot 100.
In November 2009, Clarkson was interviewed by MTV. It gave them to be busy with writing songs for her fifth album. That album is titled Stronger and was (in the United States) on 25 October 2011. In the Netherlands, released the album on October 21.
Clarkson co-wrote about half the songs on the album. Clarkson has stated in interviews that You Love Me by far her favorite song on the album. Also Darkside calls them sometimes as a favorite.
The first single from the album, "Mr.. Know It All", was released on 30 August 2011. Clarkson showed the number (the studio version, not live) in a live webcast on its official website to hear. Then the number on 5 september available on iTunes.
Clarkson has the number several times on television shows in the United States were performed. This has led to the single, after the release of the album, in early November 2011 the top ten of the U.S. Hot 100 earned. In South Korea, and Australia won Mr. Know It All, even the top position. In the Netherlands the single never got past 9 in the place tipparade.
