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Jennifer Paige was born on September 3 1973 in Marietta, Georgia, U.S.A. Her love for singing was obvious since she was only 5. By the age of 8 she was singing duets with her brother and was giving shows in coffeehouses and restaurants. Her first piano lessons came at 10 and she started tasting rock and pop genres. Jennifer admits that her first influences came from Gospel. Her love for the arts brought her to the famous Cobb Country Center where she got individual training in dance, performing arts, voice, drama. Her studies helped her star raise.After High School she started touring with a Top 40 band. When they got to Las Vegas, Jennifer Paige met actress/singer Crystal Bernand who convinced her to come to L.A. That was what Jen did. She came to L.A. in 1995. She hooked up with another band called Joe's Band. Her 3 years tour with Joe's Band was successful and the highlight of this period was the show they gave in Atlanta in August 1996 in front of 50000 (!!) crowd, during the Olympic Games. In 1997 she teamed with producer Andy Goldmark (who have worked with Elton John, Natalie Cole etc). Goldmark and Jen created a dance version of Aretha Franklin's "Chain of Fools". She attracted the German Indie Label Edel Records which was looking for a pop persona in order to strengthen their presence in America. When the President of Edel, Jonathan First, heard Jennifer's demo tape, he was so impressed that immediately flew to L.A. in order to sign her.
Paige record her first self titled LP in 1997 for Edel. The album was a huge success. It was released in August 1998. The song "Crush" was a Top Hit. Her producer, Goldmark took a copy of Crush and send it to the Legendary Radio station KIIS. He wanted this song to be Jennifer's introduction to the audience. KIIS directors were enthusiastic with Crush and said Andy "we really wanna play this!!".KIIS was a highly influential Station and this promotion was good for Paige. Crush became the most requested song for KIIS and success was so strong that even Jennifer Paige was surprised. In her interviews she says about Crush: "It's just deep enough, and just light enough. It's silly, but not too silly. It strikes a good balance and doesn't take itself too seriously. And I think the world needs a few more songs like that".
Many other stations were interested for playing Crush, so Paige's popularity grew immediately. Many labels tried to sign her but Hollywood Productions was the lucky one. At the same time Crush became Gold (500000 sales). Besides it hit no2 in R&R Top 10, no1 in Australia, Norway, Spain, Denmark etc. Jennifer Paige was a successful singer after only her debut. 2 more tracks became singles with noticeable success (Sober and Always You). The debut album, "Jennifer Paige" was promoted with a two years international tour. Paige sang in front of the Pope and also in front of the Prince of Monaco. In 2000 she wrote a nice song for the movie "Autumn in New York".
3 years after Jen's debut a second album hit the stores. The second album "Positively Somewhere" was released in 2001. The promotion of the album in U.S. was very poor. Fortunately the Asia and Europe promotion was successful especially for the hit Stranded (cover of a Plumb song). Finally the low sales of the album made her labels refuse releasing a second single. The last release of a Jennifer Paige album was in 2003 when Edel released "Flowers: The Jennifer Paige Hits Collection". After that, Jennifer Paige admitted that she wasn't in contract with Edel or Hollywood. Jen has been writing her 3rd album and we can't wait for the release of a new masterpiece!!