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id='vu_ytplayer_vjVQa1PpcFO8QFLRBms1SysRfxNEl9yvIXDHngotKk0='> <center><img SRC="kelly_clarkson.jpg" height=258 width=300> <br><b><i><font face="Times New Roman,Times"><font color="#FF0000"><font size=+3>Kelly Clarkson</font></font></font></i></b></center> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </td> <td BGCOLOR="#66FF99"> </td> <td WIDTH="4" BGCOLOR="#00CC00"><img SRC="4x4_spacer.gif" height=4 width=4><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td> </tr> <tr> <td BGCOLOR="#00CC00"></td> <td BGCOLOR="#66FF99"></td> <td HEIGHT="11" BGCOLOR="#66FF99"><img SRC="11x11_spacer.gif" height=11 width=11></td> <td BGCOLOR="#66FF99"></td> <td BGCOLOR="#00CC00"></td> </tr> <tr> <td BGCOLOR="#00CC00"><img SRC="4x4_spacer.gif" height=4 width=4></td> <td HEIGHT="4" BGCOLOR="#00CC00"></td> <td HEIGHT="4" BGCOLOR="#00CC00"><img SRC="4x4_spacer.gif" height=4 width=4></td> <td BGCOLOR="#00CC00"></td> <td BGCOLOR="#00CC00"><img SRC="4x4_spacer.gif" height=4 width=4></td> </tr> </table> </th> </tr> </table> <p><b><font size=+1><font color="#FF0000">Ashthon Jones, </font><font color="#3333FF">Casey Abrams</font><font color="#FF0000">, Haley Reinhart, </font><font color="#3333FF">Jacob Lusk</font><font color="#FF0000">, James Durbin, </font><font color="#3333FF"><a href="http://www.123etcetera.com.karen-rodriguez.html">Karen Rodriguez</a></font><font color="#FF0000">, <a href="http://www.123etcetera.com/lauren-alaina.html">Lauren Alaina</a>,</font></font></b> <br><b><font size=+1><font color="#3333FF">Naima Adedapo</font><font color="#FF0000">, Paul McDonald, </font><font color="#3333FF"><a href="http://www.123etcetera.com/pia-toscano.html">Pia Toscano</a></font><font color="#FF0000">, <a href="http://www.123etcetera.com/scotty-mccreery.html">Scotty McCreery</a>, </font><font color="#3333FF">Stefano Langone</font><font color="#FF0000">, Thia Megia</font></font></b></center> <p><b>Kelly Brianne Clarkson (born April 24, 1982) is an American pop rock singer-songwriter and actress. Clarkson rose to fame after winning the inaugural season of the television series American Idol in 2002 and would later become the runner-up in the television special World Idol in 2003.</b><b></b> <p><b>Clarkson has released four albums to date under RCA Records: her double-platinum debut album Thankful (2003), her multi-platinum second album Breakaway (2004) (which won two Grammy Awards), My December (2007), and her latest album All I Ever Wanted (2009) (which was nominated for a Grammy Award). Her albums have sold over 10.5 million copies in the United States. Clarkson is the only American Idol contestant to have reached number one in the UK. She claimed number one on March 1, 2009, when "My Life Would Suck Without You" debuted number one on downloads alone. Clarkson is also ranked on the top 200 album sellers of the Nielsen SoundScan era at number 187.</b><b></b> <p><b>Eleven of Clarkson's singles became Top 20 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. Her single, "My Life Would Suck Without You", advanced from No. 97 to No. 1 on the Hot 100 in its first week of release, breaking the record for the largest leap to the top position in chart history.</b><b></b> <p><b>Clarkson has toured extensively worldwide as a solo act. She has performed in other versions of American Idol such as Pop Idol, Swedish Idol, Canadian Idol, Australian Idol, as well as other singing competitions such as The X Factor and Superstar K. After Clarkson's appearance on the CMT Crossroads and her duet version of "Because of You" (2007) with Reba McEntire, they co-headlined the 2 Worlds 2 Voices Tour (2008).Billboard named Clarkson the "most successful American Idol of all time", factoring in album sales, singles sales, and radio plays. Billboard ranked Clarkson the #14 artist of the 2000-10 decade. According to Nielsen SoundScan, Clarkson is the highest-selling Idol winner worldwide, with around 36 million singles and 23 million albums sold around the world.</b><b></b> <p><b>Clarkson was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and grew up in the small town of Burleson, a suburb of Fort Worth. She is the third and youngest child of Jeanne Rose, a first grade English teacher of Greek descent, and Stephen Michael Clarkson, a former engineer of Welsh extraction.</b><b></b> <p><b>Clarkson's siblings include her older brother and sister, Jason and Alyssa. When Clarkson was six years old, her parents divorced after seventeen years of marriage. The family settled in Burleson, where Clarkson's mother married her second husband, Jimmy Taylor.</b><b></b> <p><b>Clarkson's family struggled financially, and after her parents divorced, music became her refuge. Clarkson attended Pauline G Hughes Middle School and Burleson High School. She wanted to become a marine biologist but changed her mind after seeing the movie Jaws. In seventh grade, a teacher (Mrs. Cynthia Glenn) overheard her singing in a hallway and asked her to audition for the school choir; Clarkson told the teacher that she had never received professional vocal training.</b><b></b> <p><b>In high school, Clarkson performed in musicals such as Annie Get Your Gun, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Brigadoon. She sang at her high school talent show, after which an audience member shared some inspiring words with her: "God has given you this gift. You've got to sing. You're destined to sing." Clarkson continued singing and soon started classical training, hoping that music would be her ticket to a college scholarship.</b><b></b> <p><b>Upon high school graduation, Clarkson was offered full scholarships to The University of Texas at Austin, University of North Texas, and Berklee, but decided against college because she had "already written so much music and wanted to try it on her own," and she figured "you're never too old to go to college."</b><b></b> <p><b>Music career 2002–03: American Idol and World IdolMain articles: American Idol (season 1) and World Idol</b> <br><b>Clarkson won the first season of American Idol on September 4, 2002, earning 58% of the vote to 42% for runner-up Justin Guarini. Choking back tears, Clarkson performed the ballad "A Moment Like This", the song written for the winner of American Idol, which would subsequently appear on her debut album, Thankful. When released as a single in October 2002, it set a record on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart when it rose from number 52 to number one. This achievement was largely due to the impact from Idol as the CD single managed to sell 236,000 copies in its first week of sales in the U.S.; it spent five weeks at number one in Canada.</b> <br>  <br>  <p>American Idol - American Idol: The Search for a Superstar is a reality television singing competition created by Simon Fuller and produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment, which began airing on Fox on June 11, 2002. Part of the Idol franchise, it was as a spin-off from the UK show Pop Idol. The concept of the series is to find new solo recording artists, and has since become one of the most popular in the history of American television. As of January 2011, it is the most-watched TV series in the Nielsen ratings and is the only program to have been number one for six consecutive seasons, surpassing All in the Family and The Cosby Show, which were both number one for five consecutive seasons. The program aims to discover the best singer in the country where the winner is determined by the viewers. Through telephone and SMS text voting, viewers have chosen as winners Kelly Clarkson, Ruben Studdard, Fantasia Barrino, Carrie Underwood, Taylor Hicks, Jordin Sparks, David Cook, Kris Allen, and Lee DeWyze. The series employs a panel of judges who critique the contestants' performances. The original three judges were Grammy Award-winning record producer and music manager Randy Jackson, Grammy Award-winning pop singer and Emmy Award-winning choreographer Paula Abdul and award-winning music executive and music manager Simon Cowell. Since January 2011, the judging panel currently consists of Jackson, award-winning singer/actress and record producer Jennifer Lopez and Aerosmith frontman and Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Steven Tyler. For all seasons the show has been hosted by radio disc jockey Ryan Seacrest. The show was described by rival TV executives as "the most impactful show in the history of television." It has also become a recognized springboard for launching the career of many artists as bona fide stars. As Entertainment Weekly puts it, "It's given us Kelly, Carrie, Daughtry, and J. Hud. Idol rules the reality roost because the winners of Fox's ratings juggernaut actually do go on to greatness. And Taylor Hicks? He's the exception that proves the rule." <center> <p><b><a href="http://www.123etcetera.com/">Biggest Online Outlet Mall on the Internet!</a></b></center> </center> <center><script type="text/javascript"> var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? 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