A full-page ad for Torrid featuring Sparks ran in the December 2006 issue of Seventeen magazine.
In 2006, Sparks was one of six winners who won the Phoenix Torrid search for the "Next Plus Size Model." She was flown to California, where she was used in a number of Torrid ads and promotional pieces.
She lived briefly in Ridgewood, New Jersey and attended Orchard Elementary School.īefore appearing on Idol, Sparks participated in and won such talent competitions as Sprite Rising Star, GMA Academy, The Proof Is In The Pudding Contest, NBC/PAX America's Most Talented Kids, Colgate Country Showdown and the 2007 Drug Free AZ Superstar Search.
She has a younger brother PJ (Phillippi Sparks, Jr) who also plays football. Sparks was born in Phoenix, Arizona to Jodi Weidmann and former NFL defensive back Phillippi Sparks.
She has been nominated for an American Music Award, her first, for Favorite Artist in the Adult Contemporary category. On May 23, 2007, she was declared the winner of the sixth season of American Idol. Jordin Brianna Sparks (born December 22, 1989) is an American pop/R&B singer, songwriter and plus-size model. Tattoo - Future Presidents Remix - Radio Edit (Let the Music Play) īattlefield (Mike Rizzo Funk Generation Club Mix) Not everyone wants to be in the club all the time, they want that song they can sing along to on the radio in their car.No Air (TMP Remix) “I feel like 90s R & B just makes you feel good. “That is the biggest compliment ever!” she says. Mention that she could be channelling a young Toni Braxton or Mariah Carey or tracks like Boys In the Hood or They Don’t Give and Sparks lets out a big, loud, happy squeal. Sparks has a good shot at striking success with the songs which have a 90s R & B flavour, the sound of now on the pop airwaves. “This was the first time somebody asked me what I wanted to do, what I wanted to say with my music and how I wanted it to sound. 1 somewhere, or it’s played a lot, that is the bonus,” she says. “I am just glad to have new music out for the fans to digest. Her move to a new label run by hip hop producer Salaam Remi, whose credits are on records by Amy Winehouse, Nas and Miguel has rejuvenated her creative spark. She mentions briefly that her voice is close to giving out from all the talking and singing but sounds positively upbeat about squeezing another chat into a packed schedule after a long day.Īnd when she says she won’t be heartbroken if this isn’t the album to put her back into the top 10, it doesn’t sound disingenuous. The young entertainer has been out in the hustings in America, which means singing for her supper at every radio station that can influence the potential success of a single by adding it to their playlists. Sparks shows a sexier side on her new record. I kept trying to work with who was left and work out a timeline for it but in the end, we decided to take a different path and focus on acting,” she says. “When I started on the third album back at the end of 2010, a lot of people at my label were getting moved or moving on. The 25-year-old started to make her way back to music around the same time but ended up shelving an entire album when executive changes at her record label put the release on hold.īut there is not a hint of frustration or bitterness in the bubbly singer’s voice as she explains why there is a gulf of six years between her previous album Battlefield and her third solo record Right Here, Right Now, which dropped on Friday. Sparks was never far from the spotlight, or a red carpet, with her beau of three years Jason Derulo until the pair split acrimoniously last year. She wasn’t idle, pursuing acting roles including the Broadway production In the Heights and making her film debut in Sparkle, which would be Whitney Houston’s final movie.
And then Sparks disappeared from the airwaves.