26 Facts About Jazmine Sullivan

Jazmine Sullivan has won two Grammy Awards, a Billboard Women in Music Award, and two BET Awards over the course of her career.

Jazmine Sullivan's mother was a former backup singer for Philadelphia International Records.

Jazmine Sullivan is a 2005 graduate of the Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts where she was a vocal music major.

Jazmine Sullivan began singing as a contralto in the children's choir, and later in the adult choir.

Jazmine Sullivan recorded an album, which was never released, and she was eventually dropped from the label.

Jazmine Sullivan provided vocals for Kindred the Family Soul's song "I Am", as well as background vocals on the song "Party's Over", and the title track to their 2003 debut, Surrender to Love.

Jazmine Sullivan first met rapper Missy Elliott during the session; Elliott went on to produce both the majority of her debut album, Fearless, and tracks on Love Me Back.

Jazmine Sullivan later pursued success in the United Kingdom and she first released "Dream Big" as a single in the UK in February 2009.

Jazmine Sullivan was featured on a song entitled "Smoking Gun" with Jadakiss on his third studio album The Last Kiss.

Jazmine Sullivan additionally appeared on Ace Hood's second studio album, Ruthless, on the song "Champion".

Jazmine Sullivan went on to headline a few dates with Ryan Leslie, before participating in the Essence Music Festival in June 2009.

Jazmine Sullivan began working on her second album, Love Me Back, in 2009.

In 2014, Jazmine Sullivan returned to music with the announcement of her new album, Reality Show.

Jazmine Sullivan based her album Reality Show on watching reality shows during her hiatus, which inspired the namesake.

In 2016, Jazmine Sullivan was featured in the visual album Endless by Frank Ocean.

In 2019, Jazmine Sullivan was featured on Pentatonix's Christmas collection The Best of Pentatonix Christmas on the group's cover of "Joyful, Joyful".

Jazmine Sullivan released the second single, "Pick Up Your Feelings", on November 20,2020.

In February 2021, it was announced that Jazmine Sullivan was nominated for the 52nd NAACP Image Awards, which took place on March 27,2021.

Jazmine Sullivan was awarded the BET Award for Album of the Year that night.

Also in 2021, Jazmine Sullivan teamed up with soul singer-songwriter Curtis Harding on the duet "Our Love", for the soundtrack of the Emmy Award-winning Netflix series Arcane.

Jazmine Sullivan recorded the ending-credit version of the song "Come To Your Senses" for the musical Tick, Tick.

Jazmine Sullivan's voice has a solid agility in all registers and is well connected between an A2 and a G5.

Jazmine Sullivan describes her writing style as "flashbacks", in reference to her songs about failed relationships that were both physically and emotionally abusive.

Jazmine Sullivan is well known for writing her own songs, which amplifies her substantial popularity from both critics and fans.

On May 11,2020, Jazmine Sullivan announced that her mother Pam had been diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer in October 2019.

On July 24,2023, Jazmine Sullivan revealed that her mother had died two days earlier.