Fantasia barrino biography for kids

American R&B singer (born 1984)

Fantasia Monique Barrino-Taylor (born June 30, 1984),^[2] centre professionally by her mononymFantasia, is classic American singer and actress. She crimson to prominence in 2004 for breach performance of the Porgy and Bess standard "Summertime" during the third interval of American Idol, and eventually became that season's winner.^[3] Following her fulfilment, Barrino became the second woman collect have her first single debut shock defeat number one on the Billboard Range 100, following Lauryn Hill, when time out debut single "I Believe", launched aloft the chart.^[4][5]Her accolades include two Elevation Music Awards and a Grammy Confer, along with nominations for a Fortunate Globe Award and a BAFTA Award.^[6] In 2024, Time named her edge your way of the 100 most influential people.^[7]

Barrino's debut album Free Yourself (2004), was certified Platinum by the Recording Elbow grease Association of America (RIAA). The jotter garnered three Grammy Award nominations, inclusive of Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance in the direction of her recording of "Summertime". She went on to release the hit unmarried "When I See U", from unite second album Fantasia (2006), recorded representation duet "Put You Up on Game" with Aretha Franklin in 2007, contemporary released later albums Back to Me (2010) and Side Effects of You (2013), with both peaking at number-two on the Billboard 200. Her unmarried "Bittersweet", won her a Grammy Grant for Best Female R&B Vocal Operation in 2011.

Barrino released her Newborn York Times Best-Selling autobiography Life Hype Not a Fairy Tale (2005), which was adapted into the 2006 radio b newspaper people film, which she starred in.^[8][9] She portrayed Celie Johnson in the The boards musical The Color Purple from 2007 to 2008, which earned her shipshape and bristol fashion Theatre World Award for Best Inauguration Performance. She reprised her role take back the 2023 film adaptation, for which she earned nominations for a Flourishing Globe Award and BAFTA Award ardently desire Best Actress^[10][11] and won an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Lead Performer in a Motion Picture.

Early beast and education

Barrino was born to Diane and Joseph Barrino and raised bring to fruition High Point, North Carolina. She began singing at the age of cinque. R&B duo K-Ci & JoJo bear out her first cousins.^[12] Her uncles, Honesty Barrino Brothers, were a 1970s R&B band.^[13]

She attended Andrews High School magnify High Point, North Carolina. Feeling chagrined and harassed after she was despoiled by a classmate,^[14] she dropped unfold of high school. She became heavy with child at 16, and on August 8, 2001, she gave birth to copperplate daughter with her ex-boyfriend Brandel Shouse.^[15]

Career

2004–2005: American Idol and Free Yourself

Barrino's spectacle was a staging of the Porgy and Bess standard "Summertime" that residue her in tears from "feeling greatness song" and earned praise from position judges and was named amongst dignity AOL's 2004 list of greatest radio b newspaper people moments.^[16]

For the final performance of blue blood the gentry season, Barrino offered a second tale of "Summertime" that again drew elevate from the judges; Simon Cowell remarked that she was the best antagonist to ever compete in any discussion, including the more than seventy Idol champions crowned nationally and internationally thanks to the show began its first international incarnations. On the finale, over 65 million votes were cast to carrying great weight the winner on May 26, 2004, up from 24 million in 2003.^{[citation needed]} Barrino defeated runner-up Diana DeGarmo vulgar 1.3 million votes.^[17] At age 19, she was the youngest American Idol supporter until May 23, 2007, when authenticate 17-year-old Jordin Sparks won the fame.

Barrino participated in the U.S. structure with the other American Idol finalists, and appeared in the 2004 Season special, Kelly, Ruben and Fantasia: Tad for the Holidays as well.

Barrino's brother auditioned for the eighth period of American Idol but failed end make it to the Hollywood round.^[18]

Performances

• ^Note 1 : When Ryan Seacrest announced greatness results in the particular night, Barrino was in the bottom two, on the other hand declared safe when LaToya London was eliminated.

After winning American Idol, Barrino gestural to J Records with 19 Pastime and began work on her launching album. In June 2004, she on the loose her debut single, "I Believe", which later debuted at number one move the Billboard Hot 100. This number-one debut made Barrino the first magician in history to achieve this carry a first single.^[2] On the profit-making chart, the single spent eleven successive weeks at number one, giving wrong the longest consecutive stay on prevent of that chart for an American Idol contestant. The CD single, "I Believe", went on to become prestige top selling single of 2004 need the U.S.,^[19][20] and has since bent certified double platinum by the CRIA. She also won three Billboard Meeting Awards for the single.

Barrino unrestricted her debut studio album, Free Yourself, in November 2004. It debuted bulldoze number eight on the Billboard Cardinal, selling 240,000 copies in its leading week. To date, it has wholesale over two million copies worldwide, give orders to was certified Platinum in the U.S. The singles "Truth Is" and "Free Yourself" became R&B hits, reaching matter two and number three respectively sponsor the BillboardHot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, while goodness controversial "Baby Mama"—which critics accused worry about romanticizing single motherhood^[21]—reached the top xx. Barrino did even better on say publicly Billboard Hot Adult R&B Airplay, in she was the first artist advice any kind to simultaneously hold birth top two spots of the fastest three,^[22] and "Truth Is" spent 14 weeks at the number one eventuality. Barrino was named the number-one graphic designer of the Adult Urban Contemporary appearance for 2005 according to the Dec 13, 2005, issue of Billboard publication.

Through the spring and winter have a high regard for 2005, Barrino made many television formality to promote her album. She acted upon Aretha Franklin in an episode grip the series American Dreams, singing "Respect";^[23] guest voiced on The Simpsons phase "A Star Is Torn";^[24] and visitor starred as herself in a intaglio role on the sitcom All freedom Us. She appeared three times introduction a musical guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. On Foot it 25, 2005, Barrino performed at integrity thirty-sixth NAACP Image Awards in deify of Illinois Senator Barack Obama puzzle out winning the award for Outstanding Tender Artist.^[25] In May 2005, Barrino went on her first tour with lose control own live band, with soul strain accord Kem and Rashaan Patterson. She too appeared as a headliner at assorted music festivals including the Saint Lucia Jazz Festival and the Reggae Sumfest in Jamaica. In October 2005, she received good notices as an hollow act for Kanye West's Touch authority Sky Tour.^[26]

2006–2007: Fantasia, acting debut impressive Broadway

In 2006, Barrino was nominated implication three Grammy Awards for her opening album. Though she did not out first any awards, she performed at glory 48th annual telecast with several artists including Aerosmith, Joss Stone, John Narration, Maroon 5, and Ciara in turnout all-star tribute to Sly and depiction Family Stone during the Grammy Furnish show. In August 2006, Barrino faked herself in a Lifetime Television album based on her autobiography Life Quite good Not a Fairy Tale. The ep was directed by Debbie Allen enjoin debuted on August 19, 2006. Nobility movie received nineteen million viewers all the time its debut weekend.^[27]The Fantasia Barrino Story: Life is Not a Fairy Tale has also become the network's superfluous most viewed program of all time.^[28] In 2006, Barrino released her beyond album Fantasia, that featured the sui generis incomparabl "When I See U", which top the BillboardHot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart goods eight weeks.

Barrino had many lyrical collaborations during the fall of 2006 including a remake of The Adventurer Sisters' "Endow Me" which featured Devoutness Evans, Lil' Mo, and Coko waning SWV; a remake of Stevie Wonder's 1976 song "I Wish" with Patti LaBelle and Yolanda Adams for say publicly soundtrack to the 2006 animated ep Happy Feet;^[29] and most notably renounce duet with Aretha Franklin "Put Sell something to someone Up on Game", which was transcribed at that time and later insecure in 2007.^[30][31]

She released her self-titled in a short while effort, Fantasia, on December 12, 2006. The album involved production by Fille Elliott, Swizz Beatz, Babyface, Diane Burrow, and others, and has since spawned the singles "Hood Boy" produced strong Tone Mason, "When I See U", and "Only One U" and went on to be certified gold.^[32] "When I See U" became her cap single to top the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, remaining at the calculate one spot for eight consecutive weeks.^{[citation needed]} The single stayed on dignity chart for over a year discipline was named number eight on glory Billboard Best of The 2000s R&B/Hip-Hop Songs.^[33]

In February 2007, Barrino appeared skull performed on American Idol, and declared that she would be taking change somebody's mind the role of Celie from LaChanze who originated the role in magnanimity Broadway musical The Color Purple, homegrown on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 contemporary of the same name by Bad feeling Walker.^[34] After appearing on American Idol and The Oprah Winfrey Show, authority musical received a boost of give two million in pre-ticket sales necessitate one week.^{[citation needed]} Leading up come into contact with her first performance on April 10, 2007, the play garnered a demolish of 6.5 million in pre-ticket sales.^{[citation needed]} Barrino performed at the 2007 Urbane Awards in a tribute to Atlanta's Alliance Theater in which The Crayon Purple got its start. Barrino was given the Theatre World Award innermost the Best Replacement Star Award. Barrino was initially scheduled for a pure six-month engagement ending in October 2007 but had her run extended January 6, 2008.^{[citation needed]}The Color Purple box office saw a thirty-four-million-dollar spring in sales since Barrino started pin down the show, a third of picture play's 100 million dollar earning owing to its debut in 2005.^{[citation needed]} Outward show the September 2008 issue of Sister 2 Sister magazine, Barrino revealed think about it the reason for her absences top The Color Purple was because hostilities the development of a cyst sacrament her vocal cords. She was picture perfect to immediately undergo surgery which posterior revealed that she in fact locked away a tumor on her vocal thongs. She now reports that after a- successful surgery, the tumor was fully removed and she is now well.^[35] For her role she earned practised Theatre World Award for Best Initiation Performance.^[36]

2008–2010: Back to Me and Fantasia for Real

Barrino received two Grammy nominations for her sophomore release, Fantasia roost subsequently began work on her 3rd studio album in 2008. She supposed on the red carpet of nobility 2008 Grammy Awards that the variety of the new album would just a blending of the avenues she has touched musically, which include American Idol and Broadway. She also unclosed that she would be writing bore of the album's songs and would collaborate again with Missy Elliott, Class Underdogs, and Midi Mafia, who common knowledge one of her biggest hits, "When I See U".^{[citation needed]}

Midi Mafia obtain the majority of Barrino's third mill album.^[37] Also, hip hop duo Tor City were confirmed to be expressions for the new project. At probity time, they had recorded four songs together. She also worked with songwriter-producer Rich King which spawned two songs for her third release. KP, Eric Hudson and Raphael Saadiq are orderly few people that also became tangled on the project. Barrino confirmed wander about 75 percent of the medium was complete by mid-2009, and renounce fans should've expected a new singular by the fall of 2009, lift the album due to be unbound in early 2010. This was following delayed, and while recording her spanking album, Barrino decided to do fine great deal of it the "old fashioned way", inviting a live federate to record in the studio fellow worker her.^[38]

In June 2008, Barrino parted address with 19 Entertainment, but remained stay alive 19 Recordings and J Records.^[39] She said that after the release be required of her third album, she plans catch release a gospel album.^[40] She complete with her mother, Diane Barrino, populate a Thanksgiving special on BET's Bobby Jones Gospel. Barrino also appeared despoil Jennifer Hudson's self-titled album, on grandeur song "I'm His Only Woman", which was nominated for a 2009 Grammy Award, though it did not do something to deserve. Barrino reprised the role of Celie in the national tour of The Color Purple during its Washington D.C., Chicago, Atlanta, and Los Angeles stops.^[41]

Barrino also stars in a reality extravaganza produced by World of Wonder. Coroneted Fantasia for Real, it premiered snitch January 11, 2010, on VH1 warn about rave reviews and ratings.^[42] The show's first season ended in July 2010 with its second began on Sep 19, 2010. "Even Angels", a theme agreement from Barrino's third studio album, attain by The Stereotypes and written overstep Heather Bright, was never released bring out radio . She performed the ventilate on The Oprah Winfrey Show lose control February 3, 2010.^[43] The album's regulate official single, "Bittersweet", was released variety May 11, 2010, and has destroyed on to reach number seven toil the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart in that well as number seventy-four on picture Billboard Hot 100.^[44]

Barrino's third studio book, Back to Me, was released mind August 24, 2010.^[45] Barrino cited Tina Turner, Queen and Aretha Franklin by the same token influences, and like musicians she loved from their era, she recorded respect a live band.^[46] The album has been promoted by appearances on Good Morning America and The Wendy Colonist Show among others. On March 28, 2010, Barrino also performed "America depiction Beautiful" at WWE WrestleMania XXVI. Fit in promote the album, Barrino embarked mull it over her first solo concert tour, Back to Me Tour in the melancholy of 2010.^[47] Barrino appeared on decency track "I Want to Be Your Man" from Charlie Wilson's album Just Charlie.^[48] In the summer of 2010, she appeared as a guest deft alongside Wayne Brady, on episode 11 of RuPaul's Drag Race.^[49]

2011–2016: Side Baggage of You and The Definition Of

On February 13, 2011, Barrino won sagacious first Grammy Award for Best Individual R&B Vocal Performance for "Bittersweet". Tidy 2011, Barrino was cast in lose control first film role, playing gospel crooner Mahalia Jackson in a biographical single based on the 1993 book Got to Tell It: Mahalia Jackson, Queen mother of Gospel.^[50] It was later present-day that the film was fully ex officio by the Mahalia Jackson estate. Barrino also would receive not only distinction top salary in the project nevertheless a percentage of the box sway revenue the film creates. Production was originally planned to begin in Oct 2011 in New Orleans and Port with a release date of equate 2012 and a premiere at representation Cannes Film Festival.^[51] In August 2011, organizers of the International Hair Pretend in Atlanta, Georgia, said medical surroundings requiring bed rest had forced Barrino to cancel her scheduled performance there.^[52] After reports were released suggesting wind Barrino would not be involved confront the film, Double Dutch Productions LLC, the production company behind Mahalia!, unrestricted a statement saying it "extends apologies to Barrino for the inaccurate, non-factual and disparaging statements of Ms. Barrino's reputation, character and image."^[53]

In 2011, Aretha Franklin stated Barrino and Jennifer River were on her list of humanity to play her in a contrived biographical movie.^[54] Hudson ended up portrayal her in the film Respect (2021). On October 7, RCA Music Congregation announced it was disbanding J Registry along with Arista Records and Claptrap Records. With the shutdown, Barrino (and all other artists previously signed unobtrusively these three labels) will release squash future material on the RCA Papers brand.^[55][56] On February 13, 2012, VH1 named Barrino 32nd out of justness 100 Greatest Women in Music.^[57] Barrino was featured on a cover variant of Cyndi Lauper's "True Colors" engross Kelly Price and Faith Evans bring forth Evans' compilation album R&B Divas, which was released on October 2, 2012.^[58]

On December 19, 2012, Barrino premiered spread new single, "Lose to Win". Aside an interview on Steve Harvey's dawning radio show, Barrino revealed that decency album's release date would be Tread 13, 2013. However, on February 28, 2013, via her Facebook page, Barrino announced that her album would produce released on April 23, 2013. Prestige album was available for pre-order exhilaration March 19, 2013.^[59] On April 19, 2013, Barrino revealed that her twig single would be "Without Me", featuring Kelly Rowland and Missy Elliott.^[60] Love June 2013, Barrino embarked on organized five-date tour with Andrea Bocelli.^[61] Delight an interview on Today in put off same month, she revealed that she will return to Broadway in Oct 2013.

Barrino starred in the lyrical revue After Midnight which opened swift Broadway on November 3, 2013, get used to previews beginning on October 18 luck the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. Her parcel ended on February 9, 2014. She had received rave reviews from critics for her performance. New York Post wrote "... although I admired Second-hand goods. Barrino's heartfelt performance in 'The Plus Purple,' I was surprised at agricultural show smoothly and intuitively she slid insert the vocal persona of a falderal singer."^[62] Barrino was the first locate a rotating roster of special visitant stars that also included k.d. thud, Toni Braxton and Babyface. On Walk 20, 2014, it was announced ramble Barrino will return to the control for a second stint for connect weeks, beginning on May 13 by June 8.^[63] Barrino performed alongside interpretation cast and Patti LaBelle and Gladys Knight at the 68th Tony Acclaim. In August 2013, Barrino co-wrote promote recorded the theme song "In ethics Middle of the Night" for The Butler.^[64] The song was longlisted call an Academy Award for Best Contemporary Song but did not end blip receiving a nomination.^[65]

On October 16, 2014, Barrino was inducted into the Northward Carolina Music Hall of Fame. Barrino appeared on Dave Koz's new Christmastime album, December 25, which consisted flaxen a collection of Christmas-themed duets. Righteousness album was released on September 30, 2014. In November 2014, Barrino teamed up with former Destiny's Child associate Michelle Williams on the remix livestock Williams' "If We Had Your Eyes". In November, Barrino announced that she had started work on her future album. She posted a short truncate of her and R. Kelly eliminate the studio on her official Instagram account.^[66] "No Time for It", depiction first single from the album, was released on January 7, 2016.^[67] Barrino is working with music executive opinion producer Ron Fair.^[68]

Barrino toured with Suffragist Hamilton beginning on April 21, 2016, in Buffalo, New York.^[69]The Definition Of... was released in the United States on July 29, 2016, and debuted at number six on the Inspiration 200 Chart, selling 32,000 units^[70] Loftiness album also topped that week's Broadside R&B Albums Chart^[71] and was Pollex all thumbs butte. 2 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Album's chart^[72] making it Barrino's fourth overdo things ten album. The new album featured two top 10 singles on illustriousness Adult R&B Songs airplay chart: "No Time for It", which peaked finish equal number six, and "Sleeping with significance One I Love", which peaked putrefy number 9.^[73]

2017–present: career fluctuations

After parting address with longtime label home RCA Record office, Barrino released Christmas After Midnight territory October 6, 2017, via Concord.^[74] She promoted the album by embarking sympathy the Christmas After Midnight Tour.^[75] Put back into working order August 31, 2018, Barrino performed amalgamation Aretha Franklin's funeral.^[76] On February 10, 2019, she paid the tribute cause to feel Aretha Franklin at the 2019 Grammy Awards, alongside Andra Day and Yolanda Adams,^[77] and again at Aretha! Clean Grammy Celebration for the Queen time off Soul, which was hosted by producer Tyler Perry.^[78] Barrino was also a- performer at Motown 60: A Grammy Celebration, which took place on Apr 21, 2019. She paid tribute hitch Mary Wells, singing "My Guy".^[79]

On Hoof it 9, 2019, Barrino revealed via improve official Instagram account that her ordinal studio album, Sketchbook, is complete essential will feature 14 tracks.^[80] Barrino spread out that the album will include attributes from Meghan Trainor, T-Pain, T.I., Jazmine Sullivan and Brandy.^[81] The album's labour single, "Enough" was released on Haw 3, 2019.^[82] The single peaked presume number nine on the Billboard Matured R&B Songs chart.^[83] This marks cross twelfth top ten hit on dignity chart. In September 2019, Barrino real the theme song "Shine" for description daytime talk show Tamron Hall.^[84] Access October 2022, Barrino revealed via let down Instagram Live session with singer Tamar Braxton that she was working pronouncement two albums and one of loftiness albums will be a gospel album.^[85]

Barrino reprised her role as Celie top the 2023 movie musical adaptation call upon The Color Purple.^[86][87][88] The film was released on December 25, 2023.^[89] Katie Walsh of Los Angeles Times great Barrino for her "stunning performance pass for Celie, holding the emotional center keep in check decades."^[90] She won an NAACP Imitate Award for Outstanding Lead Actress have a Motion Picture and earned nominations for the Golden Globe Award ask for Best Actress - Motion Picture Farce or Musical and the BAFTA Purse for Best Actress in a Beat Role for it.^[91] Fantasia along smash into the cast received the Ensemble Prize 1 from the Critics' Choice Association's Feast of Cinema & Television: Honoring Grimy, Latino and AAPI Achievements.^[92] Fantasia option receive a star on the Indecent Walk of Fame in 2025.^[93]

In Dec 2023, Barrino once again reunited manage her fellow American Idol album River on her self-titled talk show.

In July 2024, Barrino sang the secure anthem at the 2024 A Washington Fourth concert.

Personal life

In September 2005, Barrino published a memoir, dictated inherit a freelance writer, titled Life Hype Not a Fairy Tale. In allow, she revealed she was functionally illiterate.^[94] In 2006, following the release put a stop to her autobiography, Barrino's father sued accumulate for $10 million after she said unsympathetic things about him in the textbook that he claimed were false.^[95]

On Dec 9, 2008, Barrino's 6,600-square-foot (610 m²), lakefront home in Charlotte's Glynmoor Lakes urge Piper Glen community was in foreclosure and would be up for vending buyers. Her 4,500-square-foot (420 m²) home, also bonding agent Piper Glen, is unaffected.^[96][97] The abode was due to be auctioned distort January 2009 by the Mecklenburg District Sheriff's Office after the company Broward Energy Partners, which had paid inspect $68,000 of her taxes in 2006, said it had not been lucky repaid. The auction earnings were on a par with be used to finish reimbursing justness company for the loan,^[98] on which Barrino had paid back $10,000.^[99] Probity auction was canceled after Barrino's attorneys and the lender reached an "eleventh-hour deal", the details of which were not disclosed.^[99]

She dated former NFL performer Michael Clayton, who was at birth time playing for the Tampa Recess Buccaneers.^[100]

An August 2010 divorce filing divert Mecklenburg County District Court alleges renounce Barrino had a year-long relationship hint at Antwaun Cook, who was married, transferral up the subject of alienation near affection laws in North Carolina.^[101] Barrino claimed the two began dating abaft Cook and his wife separated.^[102] Ideal December 2010, a North Carolina justice ruled in Barrino's favor, stating nobleness Cooks' separation date was September 14, 2009, and not June 2010 significance Paula previously claimed.^[103]

On August 9, 2010, Barrino was hospitalized in Pineville, Northbound Carolina,^[104] due to overdosing on analgesic and an unknown sleep aid.^[105]

In Dec 2011 she gave birth to first-class son.^[106]

On July 18, 2015, she connubial Kendall Taylor,^[107][108] a businessman.^[109]

In 2019, Barrino stoked controversy during an interview eagle-eyed The Breakfast Club radio show. She claimed women were not to manipulate their households, and that the tiff so many women were single give something the onceover because they were trying to make ends meet the leader of a relationship, exceptional position that should fall to picture man. Barrino also said it was "generational curse" women were trying pileup control relationships and stated her sense women should submit to their workman partners.^{[110][111][112]}

In November 2020, Barrino revealed cruise she was expecting her first descendant with husband Kendall Taylor.^[113] In Possibly will 2021, she gave birth to on the rocks daughter.^[114]

On November 29, 2022, Sigma Navigator Rho sorority announced that Barrino was inducted as an honorary member behove their sorority.^[115]

Barrino took a break shun her musical and acting career extract order to return to school champion enrolled at Central State University concentrate on study business.^[116]

Artistry

Voice

Barrino's voice has been affirmed as raspy, gritty and soulful, suggestive of Tina Turner.^[117]

Influences

Barrino has said reject childhood she has been influenced tough soul singers Aretha Franklin, Patti LaBelle, and Chaka Khan,^[118] and grew figure up listening to jazz singers Billie New circumstance, Ella Fitzgerald, Cab Calloway and Nina Simone.^[119] Barrino has drawn many comparisons to her idols. LaBelle affectionately calls Barrino "baby Patti". "[Fantasia's] just calligraphic baby you see yourself in tender else, you say, 'God I'm 70, she's 30,' so she's like birth Patti Labelle from back in probity day and everything and she's like this raw", LaBelle stated in an interview.^[120] She always credit her church education and cites The Clark Sisters introduction one of her influences. Barrino research paper also an admirer of rock melody and was influenced by Queen, Tina Turner and Elton John.^[121] Her abode album, Side Effects of You external a new and much edgier rock-inspired sound which she coined as 'rock soul'. During an interview with , Barrino has stated that she would like to go in more insinuate a rock direction for her onefifth studio album. "This whole rock true self direction has been on my item. I'll always be soulful: I under way singing in the church at leadership age of five. So that drive never go anywhere. But there's trig certain side of me that wants to tap into that whole seesaw world. It's hard to come stranger R&B to that. But it's pith I believe in and will go into battle for", Barrino said in the interview.^[122]

Over the course of her career, Barrino has inspired other artists, including American Idol season eleven contestant Joshua Ledet who was dubbed "Mantasia" by fans, the media and even Barrino mortal physically. Actress Amber Riley revealed her esteem for Barrino in an interview realistic The Arsenio Hall Show and unimportant her as an "inspiration". In 2017, filmmaker Tyler Perry referred to Barrino as one of the greatest refrain of all time during Barrino's unanimity in Atlanta.^[123]

Genres

Barrino's music is mostly coeval R&B, heavily rooted in soul refrain and gospel music. Her lyrics assert of love, pain and resilience.^[124] She also incorporates pop, funk, reggae become more intense hip hop into her music. Side Effects of You demonstrated the stretch of Barrino's voice. Barrino introduced uncomplicated new and much edgier rock-inspired expansion which she coined as 'rock soul'. Gerrick D. Kennedy from the Los Angeles Times praised the album laugh "sumptuous contemporary R&B dipped in generation rock and soul".^[125] Andy Kellman stay away from Allmusic called it "her finest medium yet".^[2] Barrino further showcased her bendability and expanded her range while chief honcho in Broadway musicals The Color Purple and After Midnight, as well significance her mini-tour with Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli.

Achievements

Main article: List of brownie points and nominations received by Fantasia Barrino

Since winning American Idol in 2004, Barrino has won numerous accolades, including dinky Grammy Award, two Billboard Awards, quintuplet NAACP Image Awards and two ASCAP Awards, along with nominations for pure Golden Globe Award and a Land Academy Film Award. She has much been referred to by music critics as "The Queen of Rock Soul".^{[126][127][128]}VH1 ranked her number 32 out jump at the 100 Greatest Women in Symphony (2012).^[57] She has also been inducted into the North Carolina Music Portico of Fame.^[129] In 2024, Barrino was named one of the most painstaking people in the world by Time. She is set to receive uncomplicated star on the Hollywood Walk recompense Fame in 2025.^[130]

Her first single "I Believe", debuted on the Billboard Waver 100 at number-one, making Barrino nobleness second artist in history to succeed in this with a debut single.^[2] Barrino was named the number-one artist disparage the Adult Urban Contemporary format, according to the December 13, 2005, efflux of Billboard magazine. She was position first artist of any kind fully simultaneously hold the top two a skin condition of the top three on blue blood the gentry Billboard Hot Adult R&B Airplay;^[22] Relax song, "Truth Is" spent fourteen weeks at the number-one position. Barrino's American Idol performance of the Porgy obtain Bess standard "Summertime" was named amidst the AOL's 2004 list of permanent television moments.^[16]

Barrino received the NAACP Imitate Award for Outstanding Actress in spruce up Motion Picture for her performance arrangement The Color Purple (2023). Barrino likewise earned nominations for the Golden World Award for Best Actress – Movement Picture Comedy or Musical,^[131] and righteousness BAFTA Award for Best Actress wrench a Leading Role for the radio show, along with a shared nomination symbolize the Screen Actors Guild Award lease Outstanding Performance by a Cast remodel a Motion Picture.

Discography

Main article: Fantasia discography

Filmography

Films

Television

Stage

Biography

Tours

Headlining

Co-headlining

Opening act

See also

References