


“I am not sure, we are still working on it," she says. Jordin Sparks shuttled between New York and Arizona to work on the new album, but there are no specifics yet on a release date. It is really cool to put songs on a record that I was part of … that I sing and there is a different connection to that song then there is say with somebody who just sends in a song”. "I tend, when I get to write and I get to be a part of the music making process, to write from things I have gone through or am going through or things I am thinking of at the moment or the way I am feeling. “Not necessarily too farfetched that my fans will not know it is me," notes the former American Idol. The style is different, yet Jordin is confident her fans will embrace her new sound. I have always had a little bit of rhythm but I wanted to step my game up and do something different and it was cool because my fans had no idea”. "It is a side of me I have always had and I have not been able to show it yet … but it worked out and now I can do that. It has more attitude and a little bit more edgy," Sparks says. The first single from Jordin’s upcoming third album is "I Am Woman". Her follow up hit, “No Air”, was recorded with Chris Brown in 2007 and reached number three.Ī second album and other hits followed including her top 10 anthem Battlefield. Jordin's debut single “Tattoo” peaked at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. "I will be singing to grandchildren or whoever but music is what I always wanted to do and I knew I would be a singer I just did not know when it would happen." I feel like this is what I am supposed to be doing and I will be doing it after the lights go off and the stage is not there," she adds. She was playing it on the piano and I am singing every single word at 18 months … so music has always been something that is just in my blood … like I was born to do it. “My grandmother found some tapes … old family videos, and I was just 18 months old and singing ‘Jingle Bells’ before I could even make sentences," Sparks says. That can do attitude and her love of music were apparent at a very young age. "I thought there was something that needs to happen and I can always audition next year because I was in the youngest age group at the time.” and I was told ‘no’ and I was 16 so it was fine," recalls Sparks. Jordin was rejected by the judges the year before she won the show. Just getting into the contest was a daunting task. It is just awesome … I love being able to do what I do.” "I am just glad that four or five years later people still want to talk to me and want to hear me sing. “It has been nonstop ever since, it has been a steady rise and really cool," Sparks says. Jordin’s life has been a whirlwind ever since. Not so for Jordin Sparks, who defeated thousands of other contestants during the show’s sixth season to become the youngest winner ever. television show American Idol fade quickly into obscurity. Now at 21 Jordin is putting the final touches on her third album. After winning the title at age 17 Jordin has scored three Top 10 Billboard Chart hits and appeared in a Broadway musical. Singing star Jordin Sparks rose to fame in 2007 on the popular television show American Idol.
