Kelly Brianne Clarkson was born April 24, 1982. Signed to RCA Records, she was initially marketed as a pop musician with her commercially successful debut album Thankful (2003). kelly Clarkson took more creative control over her music and developed a more rock-oriented image for the release of her second album Breakaway (2004), which yielded the highest sales of her career and received two Grammy Awards. Kelly Clarkson has released numerous worldwide top-ten singles, and her two albums to date have received platinum certifications in several countries.


Kelly Clarkson was born in Fort Worth, Texas on April 24, 1982. She is the third and youngest child of Jeanne Ann Taylor, a first grade English teacher of Greek descent, and Stephen Michael Clarkson, a former engineer of Welsh extraction. Clarkson's siblings include her older brother Jason, and her older sister Alyssa. When Kelly Clarkson was six years old, her parents separated after seventeen years of marriage; her brother went to live with her father, her sister went to live with an aunt, and Kelly Clarkson remained with her mother. Following the separation, Kelly frequently moved around Texas while their mother managed several occupations in order to support the family. Being six-years-old at the time, Kelly did not understand why her family had been constantly moving and said that children usually do not comprehend the process of divorce. Eventually, the family settled in Burleson, Texas where Clarkson's mother married her second husband, Jimmy Taylor.


Kelly Clarkson attended Pauline Hughes Middle School when she reached seventh grade. She had originally wanted to become a marine biologist, but during the same school year, a teacher 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 before. Following middle school, she attended Burleson High School and performed in musicals such as Brigadoon.


Upon graduation, in 2000, Kelly Clarkson worked several occupations to finance her demo CD that she had been hoping to market toward record labels. She received few responses though, and she eventually decided to move to Hollywood to seek out other opportunities in music. However, early attempts went unnoticed and Clarkson wound up appearing as an extra on Sabrina, the Teenage Witch to make ends-meet. After her apartment was burned down in a fire, a disappointed Clarkson returned to Texas. In order to make a living, she worked at a cinema, as a cocktail waitress, telemarketer, and a Red Bull promoter.

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