“The best thing about your voice is…. you tell a story with your song. You convey a story and it moves and touches everyone in this whole building.”
--Paula Abdul, about Jennifer Hudson’s performance of “I Believe in You and Me,” Season 3
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When Jennifer Hudson stepped foot onto the American Idol stage, there was no denying her incredible voice, though I would have denied some of her outfits! For a majority of contestants, the judges say, “Don’t sing Whitney” or “Don’t sing Mariah” because they have huge songs that only they can sing with their huge voices! Well, J-Hud was one of the few exceptions to that rule within the American Idol universe. She walks out on that stage (screen, too) and demands your attention.
Jennifer knew that she didn’t need to win American Idol for her to get the career she had been dreaming about since singing in church as a little girl! As we all know, what happened after American Idol is the real story. She beat out hundreds of other actresses for the dream role of Effie in Dreamgirls. I saw that movie when it came out on Christmas Day a couple years ago. I was captivated by her performance! Even moved to tears on more than one occasion. People were applauding in the theatre (which, in DC, is practically unheard of)!
J-Hud has taken a seventh place finish on Season 3 of American Idol, and turned it into one of the most successful post-Idol stories ever! She’s the only Idol to have gotten the notoriety and validation as both a singer and an actress (complete with an Oscar win)! This year, she released her debut album, several years in the making, and has appeared in two feature films. I know that we have not heard the last of Jennifer Hudson!
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