A singer. A songwriter. A prodigy. With just a few notes, she's
made some of the most influential men and women in America stop
in their tracks to find her, and meet her. She possesses a rare
talent that has enchanted talk show hosts, celebrities, and audiences
throughout the United States. And she's determined to take the
music world by storm.
Her name is JoJo.
In the outskirts of Boston, Massachusetts, JoJo grew up in a
home filled with song. Her mother, a church soloist and trained
musical theater performer, would practice hymns and arias alike
while a young JoJo watched, listened, and learned. She imitated
her mother's incredible range as well as the sounds that breezed
through the family's home stereo: Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin,
Whitney Houston, and Etta James. "When I was two years old,
I would sing nursery rhymes. I would do riffs on them and make
them jazzy," JoJo remembers. It was at this early age that
she taught herself to interpret the pop and blues tunes she heard
with her own distinctive and unique style continue
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