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| associated_acts = Ne-Yo | website = }} }} Jennifer Kate Hudson (born September 12, 1981) is an American singer, actress and spokesperson.〔 She rose to fame in 2004 as a finalist on the third season of ''American Idol'', coming in seventh place. As an actress, she made her film debut portraying Effie White in ''Dreamgirls'' (2006), for which she gained worldwide acclaim and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has also appeared in such films as ''Sex and the City'' (2008), ''The Secret Life of Bees'' (2008) and ''Winnie Mandela'' (2013). As a singer, Hudson won a Grammy Award for her debut album, ''Jennifer Hudson'', released in 2008. The album spawned the hit single "Spotlight" and was certified gold by the RIAA, with sales exceeding a million copies worldwide. Her second album, ''I Remember Me'', was released 2011 and was certified gold by the RIAA, producing the hit "Where You At". In October 2008, after Hudson's mother, brother and nephew were killed in a shooting, Hudson stepped out of the public eye for three months. Hudson resumed her public appearances in 2009 and has since performed at the Super Bowl XLIII, the Grammy Awards, ''American Idol'', and ''The Oprah Winfrey Show''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= J-Hud to sing Friday on Oprah's show )〕 Hudson has been described as a friend of President Barack Obama, who invited her to appear with him at a fundraiser in Beverly Hills in May 2009. She also performed at the White House at the "Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement" event.〔() 〕 Hudson has sold 1,280,000 albums and 2,237,000 singles in the United States as of February 2012. In 2013, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.〔 She is a dramatic soprano, with the ability to sing from C3 to C#6. ==Early life== Hudson was born on September 12, 1981, in Chicago, Illinois.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Person: Jennifer Hudson: Biography )〕 She is the third and youngest child of Darnell Donnerson (November 7, 1950 – October 24, 2008) and Samuel Simpson (died 1999).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Yahoo Biography )〕 She was raised as a Baptist in Englewood and attended Dunbar Vocational High School, from which she graduated in 1999.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Chicago fetes hometowner Jennifer Hudson )〕 She cites Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, and Patti LaBelle as her overall biggest influences and inspiration. At the age of 7, she got her start in performing by singing with the church choir and doing community theater with the help of her late maternal grandmother, Julia.〔Biography Today, p. 50.〕 She enrolled at Langston University but she left after a semester due to homesickness and unhappiness with the weather, and registered at Kennedy–King College.〔Biography Today, p. 51.〕 In January 2002, Hudson signed her first recording contract with Righteous Records, a Chicago-based independent record label. She was released from her five-year contract with Righteous Records so that she could appear on ''American Idol'' in 2004. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jennifer Hudson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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