Fantasia Barrino made her goals come real in the front of tens of thousands and thousands of Americans while she have become the season three American Idol Winner. Just days following her successful win she launched her first unmarried “I Believe” promoting over 500K copies. She commenced paintings on her debut album quickly after running with Missy Elliott, Ciara, and Jermaine Durpi. Fantasia had moved out of her small city of High Point North Carolina and right into a 6,six hundred rectangular foot mansion withinside the suburbs. But matters took a unexpected flip for the more serious while she were given worried with a married guy. The horrific press cause huge backlash from fanatics and critics main to negative album income and a lack of reputation. She turned into additionally served with numerous proceedings from her father and brother. Her price range cause her dropping her mansion and submitting for bankruptcy. It might be years earlier than she might regain her self belief to make her go back to the level acting her new unmarried at American Idol. Through all of it Fantasia turned into capable of hold her religion and nowadays her internet really well worth is $three million.
Fantasia turned into born in High Point North Carolina. She had nearly no dating together along with her father whilst her mom raised her and her brothers on her personal. Fantasia discovered in her memoir “Life Is Not A Fairy tale” that she turned into illiterate. She had a negative training and dropped out of excessive college on the age of sixteen after she turned into raped via way of means of a classmate. That identical yr she have become pregnant together along with her daughter Zion Quari Barrino together along with her ex-boyfriend Brandel Shouse. That identical yr she attended an audition that could alternate her lifestyles for American Idol in Greensboro North Carolina. She competed towards Jennifer Hudson. The shaped a bond and friendship past the collection and finally running collectively on Hudson’s debut album.
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After triumphing American Idol Fantasia launched her debut album Free Yourself which went platinum and bought over 2 million copies worldwide. The album turned into nominated for greater than twenty awards inclusive of a Grammy. Her sophomore launch titled Fantasia additionally went platinum and the unmarried Free Yourself turned into no 1 on Billboard R&B Charts for 8 weeks straight. Two years later she made her level debut withinside the Broadway musical Color Purple. She turned into in my view forged via way of means of Oprah Winfrey to play Celie. In 2010 she had her personal truth collection on VH1 entitled Fantasia For Real. The display lasted for 2 season and obtained a huge following turning into one in all VH1′s maximum rated suggests in 2010.
That identical yr her profession met a severe hurdle. She turned into accused of slumbering with a married guy she met at Verizon Wireless. According to Divorce submitting Mecklenburg County District Court alleges that Barrino had a yr-lengthy dating with Antwaun Cook, who turned into married. Barrino went on a media excursion protecting the allegations pronouncing that the 2 commenced courting after he turned into separated. The bad remarks despatched Fantasia right into a melancholy main to a suicide attempt. On August 9, 2010, Barrino turned into hospitalized in Pineville, North Carolina, because of overdosing on aspirin and an unknown sleep aid.
Through her barriers Fantasia claims it turned into tune that stored her lifestyles and her daughter. On December 13, 2011 she gave start to a son, Dallas Xavier Barrino. In 2013 she launched her 4th album Side Effects of You providing the unmarried “Without Me” providing Kelly Rowland and Missy Elliott. The album debuted at quantity 2 promoting 94K copies the primary week.
