Kelly Clarkson - The First American Idol winner

Kelly Clarkson

Kelly Clarkson has not been easy, both pre-and post-Idol. Growing up in Burleson, Texas, she comes from a family of divorce and deprivation. work several jobs, she tried to stay afloat and make ends meet. Ironically, the gift that changed his life has never been his intention. Kelly Clarkson did not even know she could sing until she was in high school, when the choir teacher heard her sing. She originally wanted to be a marine biologist.

In 2002, Kelly was a match after returning from Los Angeles not too long. She went to work with a composer struck, head of "Natural Woman" Aretha Franklin. However, he fell ill and could no longer work with her. The day they moved into a new apartment, but caught fire while she was eating. Living in his car for three days, she returned to Texas, where her friend Jessica had given him the American Idol competition documents. After a hearing in Dallas, she was admitted to the next round in Hollywood.

Kelly Clarkson first appearance on American Idol, she had no real sense of style, but his voice was as big as many out there and personality lit face each week on national television. Sing songs from artists like Aretha Franklin, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion and Dionne Warwick, she saw herself sitting in the ground for the participants at the beginning, it was considered the underdog. On September 4, 2002, had become our American Idol Kelly Clarkson. She brought her winning song "A Moment Like This" and looked on the cards float, reaching a record on the Billboard Hot 100 previously held by the Beatles for the biggest jump to number 1.

In April 2003, the first album of Kelly Clarkson grateful. The record was a moderate success as a scrapbook Idol as a kickoff to an optimistic future in the music industry. The album has sold over 2 million copies in the U.S. for a role in his first single "Miss Independent", co-written by Christina Aguilera. The album combines elements of pop style with a more R & B. What would happen, nobody saw it coming, nor taken seriously until Kelly finds himself as one of the best singers in the world.

In November 2004, Kelly released his second attempt Breakaway. The title, a number that also appeared in a movie, the title is ideal for many reasons. Kelly had shared with manager Simon Fuller to a company that would assist the budding superstar to reach incredible heights rental. No hard feelings were left. The direction of the album was radically changed into a pop rock sound upset that his voice booming allowed to shine. She had also fought on the action label to documents written by the hair. She had borrowed her love for writing into the first record, but more than half the new album was written by Clarkson himself, including the hit "Since U Been Gone," "Walk Away" and "Because of You . 'This is a song written at age 16 years and it was a song from the record company RCA, said she could about her first album. The album the single "Since U Been Gone" hit the national radio and clubs, and so far his best selling single. Breakaway has sold 12 million copies worldwide and has its label on more than 100 million dollars in revenue.

With the success of the album are the benefits. They started several tours, three in 2005 alone. Two towers were sold in the United States and its international partners World Tour was a success too. In 2006, Kelly was taken home two Grammy Awards and the performance of its peers. She beat some of the biggest names in music, including Mariah Carey, Paul McCartney, Sheryl Crow and Gwen Stefani. Capitalizing on its success, she ventured on another tour begins June 30 for a sample of songs they want to include in its monitoring of Breakaway. She reported that the bubblegum pop are ditching and would be writing and recording with his band. The idea has been widely adopted by the public as they recorded new songs for each tour, she had written with someone in the group. However, the album was to be the most anticipated of 2007 proved to be one of the challenges concern infamous Music: label vs. the artist.

Kelly Clarkson coupled with the legendary David Kahne, who is responsible for songs like "Manic Monday" and "Walk Like An Egyptian, his third studio album production. Co-authored more than 50 songs, his team reduced to 26 digits for plugs and held in 1914 to the default track list. The album, which is called My December, has taken a more mature, raw and emotional. During the period of rupture, she had worked himself to death, Family and friends missing and hard to find the right people to surround himself. Needless to say, the stress took its toll, including a relationship that ended shortly before the release of her second album. Dating producer and former guitarist for David Hodges in Evanescence, she noticed that they were wrong with his ex-girlfriend. He had produced "Because of You," "Addicted" and a track that does not make the cut with the title of "Bleed For Me." After he married two months after the first flame Clarkson discovered, she wrote the song "Never Again", which would become the first single from her upcoming album 2 and a half years later.

Regarding the matter of his record label RCA, they were not happy with the record, particularly the legendary record producer Clive Davis, Whitney Houston, Pink Floyd, Janis Joplin, Hall and Oates and many more. Clarkson and her manager at the time were the executive producers of the plate, and does not fit well with Davis. He quickly dismissed as unmarketable registration, no hits and it would not sell over 750,000 copies. Shelving the record of four months, he tried every trick in the book to make him change his mind. It would have offered him $ 10 million to replace or 5 songs to change the most radio friendly. However, after receiving compositions rip off "Since U Been Gone" and a song from the second record Lindsay Lohan, she stayed with his ground and threatened to pull out my December as it is and it would make the recording of a wider audience next time.

A week before the release date of June 26, they fired the management firm and hired Reba McEntire's Starstruck Entertainment for man. McEntire, Clarkson childhood hero, was already a budding relationship with American Idol winner and Grammy Awards.

RCA had said that "Never Again" was too bitter and the public would not accept as Alanis Morissette "You Oughta Know" in 90 years. However, the figures proved them wrong. The only song peaked at No. 8 on the Hot 100, but since then, sales of 10,000 copies, just a plate that is simple. While the video has reached No. 1 on VH1, the song is from the radio, while a second single was due in July titled "Sober." The label is not the desire to promote the CD at all not push the single to radio and not the mapping in the 100, with a peak at 124. The United States has not simpler. Fans were furious that an artist of this caliber would be disrespectful treatment. Although the record is once platinum in the United States, shows that real music is not dead and you do not need a formula for successful albums to sell, especially to your fans. Media has been mainly positive and stays on the side of the entanglement Clarkson on the whole, they "have the right to call the photographs won."

Connect more deeply with fans, Clarkson said repeatedly she will not release a record just to sell millions. For her, it's music. While many artists need more songs to sell a million copies of a record these days, Clarkson is necessary only proves they are one of the best in the business today. His writing ability was heard up and down, indicating that they are behind closed doors "25 and a singer." Clarkson immediately suspended from the conference call with disgust. To date, she has won three awards from ASCAP writer, two of them are "Because of You", one of which was rewarded for his remake of his own song as a duet with Reba McEntire country.

Some would say Kelly Clarkson is his career as a guarantee when they released My December when several people who heard the record to defend. Life is larger than that number all the time and number 1 on the music charts today, formulas, figures should be made and Kelly has so far remained loyal to never release the same project twice.

The first winner of American Idol's fourth album released in March 2009, combining elements of his sophomore disc wide, including many authors themselves, and the injection with a more aggressive pop rock. While Kelly may be lucky enough to find when they did Idol, American Idol was fortunate that Kelly's voice and talent. Unfortunately for her, she has the murky waters of an industry plagued by corruption, dirty politics and a tendency to tread to produce and pre-packaging of their works to transcend circumstances and music that will create new fan base that has no group who voted for her more than six years.