Clarkson won for Best Pop Vocal Album.
It sounds like a Cinderella story. Texas girl wins contest and becomes national singing star.
But, after her second album didn’t go well, she had to make some moves so that her ideas came across in her records.
"It's pretty heavy, what happened to her,” Reba McEntire told Elle. “She was thrown into the ocean without a life preserver. And she handled it. I don't know that I could have. Back in the day, female artists were told to perform and then go sit in the corner. Thank God for people like Dolly Parton who took charge. Kelly is the same way. She knows what she wants. She's had a rough go of it in the music business. People think she just won Idol and everything else was easy. Not so. She's had to fight."
All the songs on Kelly Clarkson’s Grammy-winning album, Stronger are available for free download from Freegal.
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It sounds like a Cinderella story. Texas girl wins contest and becomes national singing star.
But, after her second album didn’t go well, she had to make some moves so that her ideas came across in her records.
"It's pretty heavy, what happened to her,” Reba McEntire told Elle. “She was thrown into the ocean without a life preserver. And she handled it. I don't know that I could have. Back in the day, female artists were told to perform and then go sit in the corner. Thank God for people like Dolly Parton who took charge. Kelly is the same way. She knows what she wants. She's had a rough go of it in the music business. People think she just won Idol and everything else was easy. Not so. She's had to fight."
All the songs on Kelly Clarkson’s Grammy-winning album, Stronger are available for free download from Freegal.
Source Citation
"Kelly Clarkson." Contemporary Musicians. Vol. 53. Detroit: Gale, 2005. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 11 Feb. 2013.
