1. Tessanne Amanda Chin is a Jamaican recording artist, best known for winning Season 5 of NBC's reality TV singing competition The Voice as part of Adam Levine's team.
34 Facts About Tessanne Chin
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Tessanne Chin has opened for artists such as Patti LaBelle, Peabo Bryson and Gladys Knight, and toured for three years with Jimmy Cliff.
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Tessanne Chin is the younger sister of singer Tami Chynn.
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Tessanne Chin's parents were in a band called The Carnations and her older sister Tami Chynn is a singer.
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Tessanne Chin's cousin Jay Hall is a vocalist and guitarist with UK rockers Grassroutes, and Jay's brother Leon is a vocalist with ska-fusion act Electrik Custard.
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Tessanne Chin was introduced to music at a very early age by her parents.
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Tessanne Chin's mother was the trumpeter and singer in The Carnations and her father was the band's drummer.
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Tessanne Chin started performing when she was six years old with Cathy Levy's Little People and Teen Players Club, one of Jamaica's top performing arts schools.
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Tessanne Chin learned firsthand about cultural diversity when she moved to England at age 12.
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Tessanne Chin coped with the move by devoting a lot of time to writing songs.
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Tessanne Chin married long-time boyfriend and broadcaster Michael Anthony Cuffe Jr in 2011.
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On December 6,2010, Tessanne Chin released her independent debut album available for digital download entitled In Between Words.
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Tessanne Chin is to date so far, the only foreign born contestant to win The Voice USA.
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On December 30,2013, Tessanne Chin was named Caribbean Journal's 2013 Artist of the Year.
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Tessanne Chin was honored at the University of the West Indies Fifth Annual Toronto Benefit Gala at the Ritz Carlton hotel on March 29,2014, where she was given a Luminary Award alongside her long-time mentor, reggae singer Jimmy Cliff.
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Tessanne Chin performed at the Digicel Barbados Reggae Festival on April 27,2014, in Barbados.
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Tessanne Chin performed at the McDonald's Global owners concert held in Orlando, Florida on May 1,2014.
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Tessanne Chin performed at the Nautical Music Festival in Antigua at the closing of Antigua Sailing Week on May 3,2014 alongside Christopher Martin as well as reggae artist Barrington Levy, amongst many others.
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Tessanne Chin headlined "The Voice Summer Tour 2014" which began on June 21 in San Antonio, Texas and concluded in Redmond, Washington on August 2,2014.
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Tessanne Chin was joined by Season 5 runner-up Jacquie Lee and third place finalist Will Champlin, along with Season 1 runner-up Dia Frampton as well as the winner of Season 6 of The Voice, Josh Kaufman and other finalists of Season 6.
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Two promotional ads featuring Tessanne Chin have been released for the campaign, as well as an instructional video.
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Tessanne Chin sang at the 2014 St Lucia Jazz and Arts Festival on Sunday, May 11,2014, performing alongside reggae legend Barrington Levy, as well as Alison Hinds, Commodores, Elvis Crespo, KEM, Maxwell, Monty Alexander, Omar Sosa, P Square, Teddyson John, Alternative Quartet, Blue Mango and Grammy and Tony Award-winning Dee Dee Bridgewater.
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Tessanne Chin performed at Reggae Sumfest in Jamaica on July 19,2014, alongside Wiz Khalifa, Jason Derulo, Future, Beenie Man, Sean Paul, Jah Cure, Chronixx, and Freddie McGregor.
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Tessanne Chin released her major label debut album, Count On My Love, under Republic Records on July 1,2014.
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Tessanne Chin expressed a desire to do some of the album's recording in Jamaica at Portland's GeeJam recording studio, but ultimately recorded the album throughout various studios within the United States.
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Tessanne Chin shared on her Facebook page that she planned to release the background song which was featured in her clear scalp and hair commercial.
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Tessanne Chin performed at the National Memorial Day Concert held in Washington, DC, on May 24,2015, performing alongside Joe Mantegna, Gloria Estefan, Stephanie Scott, Katherine Jenkins, Russell Watson amongst others where she covered Whitney Houston's version of I Will Always Love You.
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Tessanne Chin appears on the 2018 single, "Let Me Love You" with GrooveGalore and Honorebel.
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In September 2019, Tessanne Chin announced she was pregnant with her first child, a girl, on her Twitter and Instagram accounts.
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Tessanne Chin performed at the 19th Annual Building Hope Gala Fundraiser and Silent Auction held by the Food for the Poor Organisation based in Florida on Saturday, February 1,2014.
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Tessanne Chin joined the Lupus Foundation of America and performed at their annual event in Washington on May 20,2014.
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Tessanne Chin made a performance at the JDRF "Toast to Tomorrow" charity Gala where they had an auction on several items to raise funds for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
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Tessanne Chin made a performance at the 24th annual "Divas Simply Singing".
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In efforts to spread awareness and to eradicate Polio, Tessanne Chin partnered with Rotary International on "World Polio Day" in which she made a performance at the event "World Polio Day and a live global update" held in Chicago, Illinois on October 24,2014.