Finding Herself : “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You) by Kelly Clarkson

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.

Source Citation

"Kelly Clarkson." Contemporary Musicians. Vol. 53. Detroit: Gale, 2005. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 11 Feb. 2013.

2013 Grammy Predictions: Adele “Set Fire to the Rain”

Adele: "Set Fire to the Rain" live at the Royal Albert Hall.

Adele’s song is nominated for Best Pop Solo Perfomance

EW predicts that she will win because “Adele wins these things in her sleep.”

Kelly Clarkson is another Freegal lass nominated here.

You can get the songs on Adele’s 21 or on Clarkson’s Stronger through free download on Freegal.



A Song for Thanksgiving: “Thankful” by Kelly Clarkson

Afternooon sun at Hudson Gardens. Photo: Ellen Mackey

Once there was this girl, named, Kelly in Texas who was great in school choir and was regularly chosen for the lead in school musicals. She dreamed of a career in singing, but back in ’02 she had a job handing out samples of Red Bull.

A friend convinced her to try out for this new TV show, called American Idol, or something like that. Kelly was known as a late sleeper, and she was so worried she’d miss the audition that she stayed up all night the night before.

Seems to have worked.

Thankful  is also the name of her first album. It’s available for free download from Freegal.