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Kelly Brianne Clarkson is an American pop singer and songwriter. She was born on April 24, 1982 in Fort Worth, Texas. Clarkson made her debut under RCA Records after she won the first season of the television series American Idol in 2002. On winning, Clarkson performed the ballad “A Moment Like This”, the song written for the winner of American Idol, which would consequently appear on her debut album, Thankful.

When released as a single in October 2002, it set a record on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart when it rose from number 52 to number one. When Thankful was released in April 2002, it straight away rose to #1 in the U.S. billboard 200. Thankful was generally well received by critics. In 2oo4, “Miss Independent” was released as the second single from Thankful. It reached the top ten of the U.S. and Canadian singles charts, and earned Clarkson her first Grammy Award nomination for “Best Female Pop Vocal Performance”.
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