

Sullivan's debut album Fearless was released on September 23, 2008. Sullivan performing live in February 2009 The song, which featured additional vocals by Missy Elliott and Sandy "Pepa" Denton of Salt-n-Pepa, later debuted at number 37 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent a total of 34 weeks atop of the Hot R&B/Hip Hop Songs altogether. Sullivan's breakthrough song, " Need U Bad", was released in May 2008. The song became the lead single, peaking at number 13 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, as well as number 21 on the Hot 100. Sullivan wrote and recorded with producers Cool & Dre titled " Say I" was given to Dre's then-girlfriend Christina Milian for her third album, So Amazin'.

Sullivan provided vocals for Kindred the Family Soul's song, "I Am", as well as background vocals on the song "Party's Over", and the title track to their 2003 debut Surrender to Love, and it was during this session she first met rapper Missy Elliott, who would go on to produce both the majority of her debut album, Fearless, and tracks on Love Me Back. She recorded an album, which was never released, and she was eventually dropped from the label. Sullivan performing live at a concert in Columbia, South Carolina in 2008.Īt fifteen, Sullivan signed to Jive Records. 2003–2009: Career beginnings and Fearless Sullivan's exposure to secular music was initially limited. Sullivan began singing as a contralto in the children's choir, and later in the adult choir. Sullivan is a 2005 graduate of the Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts where she was a vocal music major. When she was five years old, her father landed a position as a curator for the city's Historic Strawberry Mansion in the Strawberry Mansion section, and her family moved into the historical landmark. Her mother is a former backup singer for Philadelphia International Records. Jazmine Sullivan was born on Apto Don and Pam Sullivan. 1.2 2003–2009: Career beginnings and Fearless.She has also received 15 Grammy nominations, tying with Björk as the female artist with the most Grammy nominations without winning. Sullivan has received one Billboard Women in Music Award, two Soul Train Music Awards, three NAACP Image Awards and two BET Awards over the course of her career. In 2021, she released her critically acclaimed first EP, Heaux Tales, which spawned the single " Pick Up Your Feelings". After taking a three-year break, Sullivan signed with RCA Records and released her first studio album under the label, Reality Show, in 2015, and it became her second album to peak at number one on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. Sullivan followed this with her second studio album, Love Me Back, in 2010, which was received favorably by critics. It spawned four singles, including " Need U Bad" and " Bust Your Windows", both of which peaked in the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart and the former of which became Sullivan's first and only number one on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The record topped Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

Born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, her debut album, Fearless, was released in 2008 to commercial and critical success. Jazmine Marie Sullivan (born April 9, 1987) is an American singer-songwriter.
