Maroon 5, Kelly Clarkson Headline 2013 Honda Civic Tour : April 02, 2013

The 12th iteration of the Honda Civic tour will move decidedly toward a more pop flavor this year with Maroon 5 and Kelly Clarkson on the bill. This is in contrast to a bill last y ...

Grammy Nominations Pass Over Bieber, Springsteen for Miguel, Clarkson : December 07, 2012

The nominations for the 2013 Grammy Awards were announced Wednesday night at a primetime concert special broadcast from Nashville's Bridgestone Arena, and there were quite a few su ...

John Legend, Jennifer Nettles, Kelly Clarkson Ready to Pair for ABC’s Duets : May 22, 2012

When ABC’s new reality television singing competition “Duets” debuts this summer, John Legend, Kelly Clarkson, Robin Thicke and Jennifer Nettles will be sitting behind the ju ...

Kelly Clarkson Gets Political on Twitter, Gets Backlash : December 30, 2011

Kelly Clarkson took to the internet Wednesday to voice her support of Republican GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul, and her fans have spoken out strongly both for and against her ...

Kelly Clarkson Takes to Road This Spring : November 15, 2011

Hot on the heels of her fifth album being released a couple weeks ago, former American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson has announced a North American tour that will take up most of the ...

Kelly Clarkson 2009 Tour Set for Fall : July 21, 2009

Kelly Clarkson will be heading out in support of her latest album "All I Ever Wanted" this fall. "Wanted" was released in March, charting a number 1 debut on the Billboard charts. ...

kelly clarkson Biography

Kelly Clarkson is a Grammy Award winning singer and songwriter best remembered as the winner of the inaugural season of the long-running talent show series 'American Idol'. Her first single, 'A Moment Like This', propelled her not only to chart-topper status but also to record-breaker status as the single, which was written specifically for the 'Idol' winner of that season and subsequently appeared in Clarkson's debut release entitled 'Thankful', made the giant leap from no. 52 to no. 1 at the Billboard 100, breaking the record posted by The Beatles.

Fort Worth native Clarkson was born on April 24, 1982. She began writing songs while in high school, and it was also during this time when her vocal talent was discovered and praised by her superiors, peers and random audience members after participating in school musicals like 'Brigadoon', 'Annie Get Your Gun' and 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'. Her vocal range is recognized as soprano with Simon Cowell comparing her to the likes of Celine Dion. Music critic Arion Berger of Rolling Stone magazine even took note of Clarkson's vocal versatility: "her high notes are sweet and pillowy, her growl is bone-shaking and sexy, and her midrange is amazingly confident, as such, from the pop-mellow ballads she was accustomed to sing in 'Idol', Clarkson successfully and easily transitions back-and-forth from pop to pop-rock and recently, to country music, with her collaborations with Reba McIntyre, Rascal Flatts and Jason Aldean now part of her discography.

To date, Clarkson has released five studio albums. She released in 2003 her double-platinum debut 'Thankful' and in 2004, her sophomore, sextuple-platinum and most successful album to date 'Breakaway' which spawned the hits 'Since U Been Gone', 'Behind These Hazel Eyes', 'Because of You' and the title track, which also appeared in the official soundtrack of 'Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement'. She followed it up with the platinum-certified 2007 release 'My December' which featured the single 'Never Again' and 2009's 'All I Ever Wanted' which spawned 'My Life Would Suck Without You', a song which overthrew her own previous record after it made the big chart leap from no. 97 to no. 1 in the Billboard 100. The release also birthed the controversial Ryan Tedder-penned single 'Already Gone', whose style and instrumentation were closely similar to Beyonce's 'Halo'. Her latest release, 'Stronger', was released in October 2011 with the lead single 'Mr. Know It All' charting at no.10 at the Billboard 100.