When was jojo levesque born

Diane Levesque took on cleaning jobs to make sure that her daughter would not go without, but the young singer always felt different from her friends, who seemed to have so much more. In just a few years, however, she would use those early memories to pen one of the songs on her first album.

By the time she was six, JoJo had outgrown performing in her living room and she auditioned for the CBS television program Kids Say the Darndest Things, which was broadcasting on the. She wowed the show's producers, who immediately gave her a spot. The tiny six-year-old faced a packed studio audience and fearlessly belted out an astonishing rendition of Aretha Franklin's "Respect. Not long after, the little girl with the powerful voice received a phone call from executives of The Oprah Winfrey Show, asking JoJo to appear on an upcoming episode.

Thanks to the endorsement by talk show host Oprah Winfrey — , offers began to pour in for JoJo to appear on various television programs and to perform at an assortment of live venues, including a Boston Celtics basketball game and the Republican National Convention. Her big break, however, came in while performing on America's Most Talented Kids, a televised talent program that showcased entertainers under the age of fifteen.

A member of the audience introduced her to Vincent Herbert, producer and owner of Da Family Entertainment, who signed the teen songstress to a recording contract with Blackground Records. Just a few months after her thirteenth birthday, JoJo traveled with her mother between New York, Miami, and Los Angeles to record tracks for her first album. She had the opportunity to work closely with well-known Blackground producers as Soulshock … Karlin, Mike City, and The Underdogs, who had been previously associated with established performers including Whitney Houston — , Ruben Studdard — , and Aaliyah — As she told Danielle Oberdier of Time for Kids, "It's fun working with producers because we have secret handshakes and we eat junk food and it's like family.

In her interview with Oberdier, JoJo opened up and explained how she came to write the song: "I was sitting by the pool where I live now, thinking 'Well, I didn't always have a pool to sit by.

It wasn't always good like this. Things will get better soon so you have to Keep On Keepin' On. The remaining songs on the album are an eclectic mix of soulful ballads, such as "Use My Shoulder," which show off JoJo's five-octave range; party jams like "City Lights"; and catchy pop numbers like "The Happy Song.

In interviews she bristled at being labeled a pop princess and adamantly denied that her album was intended just for teenagers. It is for everybody.

When JoJo's self-titled album was released on June 24, , it received mixed reviews, with most critics commenting understandably on the tender age of the singer. Chuck Arnold of People observed that the thirteen-year-old "has yet to really grow into her big voice," and that "she may still be a little young to play with the big girls. Raymond Fiore of Entertainment Weekly offered up a similar review.

While he criticized JoJo for her over-the-top deliveries, he also commented that her CD was "brimming with sizzling hooks" and that the songstress "exhibited remarkable promise. JoJo's prediction that her CD would appeal to a wide audience proved true.

Fans snapped up her CD, which quickly cracked the Billboard Top 20 and remained there through the end of , ultimately peaking at number four. The single "Leave Get Out " reached number-one on the charts, and the video was a staple on MTV's Total Request Live during the summer and fall of and was the most requested video for months.

Music Award for best new artist—she was the youngest performer ever to receive a nomination. Following her album's release, JoJo was off and running on a whirlwind of interviews, concert dates, and television appearances. She was the opening act for Usher — during his summer European tour, and later in the year she performed with Bow Wow — on Steve Harvey's Big Time, schmoozed with guests on Live with Regis and Kelly, and sang before a presidential audience on TNT's "Christmas in Washington.

It peaked at number four on the U. Her second single, the gold-selling " Baby It's You " — which features rapper Bow Wow — peaked at number twenty-two in the U. The final single from the album, " Not That Kinda Girl ", released in , failed to make waves on the charts. Phil and his wife Robin McGraw. Bush has done in office. I'll leave it at that. In an interview with " OK! It has received mainly positive reviews. The single debuted at number ninety on the "Billboard" Hot and, in its fifth week on the chart, lept from number sixty to number one.

It charted just outside the "Billboard" Hot and peaked at number seventy-six on the "Billboard" Pop It debuted at number thirty-nine on the Billboard Rhythmic Top 40 Chart one month later. She has also stated that she will be touring in the summer of in the U.

Though there has not been an official tour, she has been performing with a live band as part of the Six Flags Starburst Thursday Night Concert series during the summer of She has also stated that she is looking for a publisher so that she can sing some of her self-written songs. In a blog posted on Myspace February 10, she wrote that she is working on her third album and hopes to have it out by fall and a single before that.

JoJo released her eponymous titled debut album in June , "Leave Get Out ", her debut single, became number one on the Billboard Pop songs chart, which made her the youngest solo artist to have a number-one single in the United States, at thirteen years old. The album has since sold over 4 million copies worldwide to date. The single was certified platinum by the RIAA in March and became her first platinum-selling single. The album has since sold over three million copies worldwide.