Who is Kelly Clarkson?

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Who is Kelly Clarkson?

Kelly Brianne Clarkson is an American singer, songwriter, novelist, and television personality who was born on April 24, 1982. She gained notoriety in 2002 when she won the inaugural season of American Idol and signed a record deal with RCA. Her first track, “A Moment Like This,” peaked at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 and ended up being the best-selling single in that nation in 2002.

It was a part of her first studio album, Thankful, which came out in 2003 and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. For her second studio album, Breakaway, Clarkson left the management of American Idol in an effort to change her image (2004). Breakaway sold more than 12 million copies worldwide and won two Grammy Awards. It was supported by four US top-ten singles, including the title tune, “Since U Been Gone,” “Behind These Hazel Eyes,” and “Because of You.”

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For her third studio album, My December (2007), Clarkson had even more creative control by co-writing every song and serving as the album’s executive producer. Her fourth and fifth studio albums, All I Ever Wanted (2009) and Stronger (2011), reverted to a lighter tone and pop rock sound. The former became Clarkson’s second US number-one album, and the latter made her the first artist to win the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album twice. 

Both of her albums produced a Hot 100 number-one song: “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You),” which went on to become her best-selling single globally, and “My Life Would Suck Without You,” which holds the record for the chart’s largest rise to number one in history. With Wrapped in Red, Clarkson then became the first American woman to have her album sell the most throughout the holiday season (2013). Her seventh studio album, Piece by Piece (2015), debuted at number-one in the US, while its title track made it into the top ten. Its single, “Underneath the Tree,” was awarded the ASCAP’s most popular Christmas song recorded in the 21st century.

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Over 25 million albums and 45 million singles by Clarkson have been sold globally. She has nine top-ten singles in the UK, Canada, and Australia in addition to her eleven top-ten singles in the US. She made history by becoming the first performer to ever top the pop, adult contemporary, adult pop, country, and dance charts on Billboard. From the show’s fourteenth to twenty-first seasons, Clarkson also coached contestants on The Voice. As of 2019, she has also hosted her own talk show, The Kelly Clarkson Show. Clarkson has won numerous awards, including five Daytime Emmys, three MTV Video Music Awards, four American Music Awards, two Academy of Country Music Awards, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame .

While VH1 rated Clarkson sixteenth on their list of the 100 Finest Women in Music, Billboard praised her as “one of pop music’s greatest singers” and presented her with the Powerhouse Award.

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On October 20, 2013, at Blackberry Farm in Walland, Tennessee, Clarkson married talent manager Brandon Blackstock, son of her former manager Narvel Blackstock and former stepson of Reba McEntire. They have two children together: River Rose, born in June 2014,and Remington “Remy” Alexander, born in April 2016. In June 2020, Clarkson filed for divorce from Blackstock.

Clarkson acknowledged treating an autoimmune ailment and a thyroid condition since 2006 in October 2019, she had previously discussed this on Today in 2018. Clarkson attributed her weight loss and health gains to Steven Gundry’s “The Plant Paradox” programme.