Fantasia Barrino rose to fame as the winner of the third season of the reality television series American Idol in 2004.
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48 Facts About Fantasia Barrino
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Fantasia Barrino then played the part of Celie in the Broadway musical The Color Purple, for which she won a 2007 Theatre World Award.
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In November 2013, Fantasia Barrino returned to Broadway in the musical After Midnight.
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Fantasia Barrino was born to Diane and Joseph Fantasia Barrino and raised in High Point, North Carolina.
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Fantasia Barrino's brother auditioned for the eighth season of American idol but failed to make it to the Hollywood round.
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Fantasia Barrino released her debut studio album, Free Yourself, in November 2004.
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Fantasia Barrino played Aretha Franklin in an episode of the series American Dreams, singing "Respect", guest voiced on The Simpsons episode "A Star Is Torn", and guest starred as herself in a cameo role on the sitcom All of Us.
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Fantasia Barrino appeared three times as a musical guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
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In May 2005, Fantasia Barrino went on her first tour with her own live band, with soul singers Kem and Rashaan Patterson.
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Fantasia Barrino appeared as a headliner at several music festivals including the Saint Lucia Jazz Festival and the Reggae Sumfest in Jamaica.
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In 2006, Fantasia Barrino was nominated for three Grammy Awards for her debut album.
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Fantasia Barrino had many musical collaborations during the fall of 2006 including a remake of The Clark Sisters' "Endow Me" which featured Faith Evans, Lil' Mo, and Coko of SWV, a remake of Stevie Wonder's 1976 song "I Wish" with Patti LaBelle and Yolanda Adams for the soundtrack to the 2006 computer-animated film Happy Feet, and most notably her duet with Aretha Franklin which was recorded at that time and later released in 2007.
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In February 2007, Fantasia Barrino appeared and performed on American Idol, and announced that she would be starring in the lead role of Celie in the Broadway musical The Color Purple, the hit musical based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 novel of the same name by Alice Walker.
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In recognition of an outstanding stage debut performance, Fantasia Barrino was given the Theatre World Award and the Best Replacement Star Broadway.
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The Color Purple box office saw a thirty-four-million-dollar jump in sales since Fantasia Barrino started in the show, a third of the play's 100 million dollar earning since its debut in 2005.
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The New York Post reported that Fantasia Barrino missed nearly fifty performances in the show, causing the producers to give back tens of thousands of dollars in refunds.
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Fantasia Barrino was ordered to immediately undergo surgery which later revealed that she in fact had a tumor on her vocal cords.
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Fantasia Barrino stated on the red carpet of the 2008 Grammy Awards that the style of the new album would be a blending of the avenues she has touched musically, which include American Idol and Broadway.
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Fantasia Barrino revealed that she would be writing some of the album's songs and would collaborate again with Missy Elliott, The Underdogs, and Midi Mafia, who produced one of her biggest hits, "When I See U".
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Fantasia Barrino worked with songwriter-producer Rich King which spawned two songs for her third release.
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Fantasia Barrino confirmed that about 75 percent of the album was complete by mid-2009, and that fans should've expected a new single by the fall of 2009, with the album due to be released in early 2010.
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In June 2008, Fantasia Barrino parted ways with 19 Entertainment, but remained with 19 Recordings and J Records.
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Fantasia Barrino said that after the release of her third album, she plans to release a gospel album.
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Fantasia Barrino performed with her mother, Diane Barrino, in a Thanksgiving special on BET's Bobby Jones Gospel.
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Fantasia Barrino appeared on Jennifer Hudson's self-titled album, on the song "I'm His Only Woman", which was nominated for a 2009 Grammy Award, though it did not win.
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Fantasia Barrino cited Tina Turner, Queen and Aretha Franklin as influences, and like musicians she admired from their era, she recorded with a live band.
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Fantasia Barrino appeared on the track "I Want to Be Your Man" from Charlie Wilson's album Just Charlie.
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In 2011, Fantasia Barrino was cast in her first film role, playing gospel singer Mahalia Jackson in a biographical film based on the 1993 book Got to Tell It: Mahalia Jackson, Queen of Gospel.
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Fantasia Barrino would receive not only the top salary in the project but a percentage of the box office revenue the film creates.
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Fantasia Barrino had received rave reviews from critics for her performance.
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Fantasia Barrino performed alongside the cast and Patti LaBelle and Gladys Knight at the 68th Tony Awards.
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In November 2014, Fantasia Barrino teamed up with former Destiny's Child member Michelle Williams on the remix of Williams' "If We Had Your Eyes".
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Fantasia Barrino is working with music executive and producer Ron Fair.
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Fantasia Barrino promoted the album by embarking on the Christmas After Midnight Tour.
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In September 2019, Fantasia Barrino recorded the theme song "Shine" for the daytime talk show Tamron Hall.
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In September 2005, Fantasia Barrino published a memoir, dictated to a freelance writer, titled Life Is Not a Fairy Tale.
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Fantasia Barrino dated former NFL player Michael Clayton, who was at the time playing for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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An August 2010 divorce filing in Mecklenburg County District Court alleges that Fantasia Barrino had a year-long relationship with Antwaun Cook, who was married, bringing up the subject of alienation of affection laws in North Carolina.
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Fantasia Barrino claimed the two began dating after Cook and his wife separated.
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In 2019, Fantasia Barrino came under fire when, in an interview on The Breakfast Club radio show, she claimed that women were not to lead their household and that the reason so many women were single is because they're trying to be the leader of a relationship, a position that should fall to the man, calling it a "generational curse" and saying women should submit to their male partners.
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In November 2020, Fantasia Barrino revealed that she was expecting her first child with husband Kendall Taylor.
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Fantasia Barrino's voice has been described as raspy, gritty and soulful.
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Fantasia Barrino has said from childhood she has been influenced by soul singers Aretha Franklin, Patti LaBelle, Chaka Khan and Tina Turner, as well as jazz singers Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Cab Calloway and Nina Simone.
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Fantasia Barrino is an admirer of rock music and was influenced by Queen and Elton John.
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Fantasia Barrino introduced a new and much edgier rock-inspired sound which she coined as 'rock soul'.
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Fantasia Barrino further showcased her versatility and expanded her range while starring in Broadway musicals The Color Purple and After Midnight, as well as her mini-tour with Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli.
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Since winning American Idol in 2004, Fantasia Barrino has sold over three million records and won numerous awards and accolades, including a Grammy Award, three Billboard Awards, three NAACP Image Awards and two ASCAP Awards.
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