Instead she waited until she was 15 years old, but didn’t exactly laze about in the interim.Īt 12 she won a contest to sing on It’s Showtime At The Harlem Apollo in front of a televised audience of millions, at 13 she sang with the actual Stevie Wonder at his grandson’s birthday party. She was a wise one as well, as she could have signed on to a gospel label at that age but decided against it, feeling that she was too young. At first she was a contralto in her church’s children’s gospel choir but she was an immediate hit, graduating to the adult’s choir before she was ten years old and performing as the choir’s soloist by the time she was eleven. Beyond being the daughter of a backing singer signed to Philadelphia International Records, Sullivan has been singing since she was a child. Few R&B singers around have the sheer pedigree that Jazmine Sullivan has.
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