The singer is the oldest out of two children in the family she has one younger brother named Philippi Sparks Jr., who is on the football team at Arizona Christian University. Born to a Caucasian mother and an African-American father, Sparks is of mixed race.
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Kelly Clarkson nailed her only UK number one with My Life Would Suck Without You, a strong contender for my all-time favourite song Girls Aloud released their final pre-hiatus single in the fan-favourite Untouchable and Paloma Faith, La Roux, Florence + The Machine and Little Boots all made strong arrivals.Born on December 22, 1989, Jordin Sparks is the daughter of Jodi Sparks and Philippi Sparks, a former professional football player. That year had Mariah Carey shading Eminem through the medium of bops (Obsessed? Still a classic), Taylor Swift earning her first British hit, Beyonce continuing her Sasha Fierce era with Halo and Sweet Dreams, and Lily Allen releasing her exceptional It’s Not Me, It’s You album – complete with her best-ever tune, The Fear. After a huge boom in mid-00s indie, pop was resurging in spectacular fashion. Plus, the music back then was just… more inventive. In 2009, it… well, it wasn’t a utopia, but lots of us were certainly a great deal more naïve and care-free, and these especially exciting hits were there to soundtrack formative moments in our lives. So what’s happened? Has pop died a death since, or have those of us looking forlornly backwards just reached a certain age when the newer stuff doesn’t appeal so much?įor a start, the world is a hellfire now. And there were plenty more across the year before that. That number of solid-gold anthems is about equal to the amount we’ve had across the entirety of 2019, but it only covers the last two months of 2009.
On top of all that, JLS will score their second number one of the year with Everybody In Love, Sugababes’ final line-up will release their first single (About A Girl – underrated to this day!), Jason Derulo will make his UK breakthrough with Whatcha Say, and Rihanna will begin one of her most interesting eras with Russian Roulette.
Lady Gaga’s masterpiece Bad Romance will top off her flawless breakthrough year by completing a seven-week journey to No1, Kesha will grace us for the first time with Tik Tok, Miley Cyrus will release her best-loved song in Party In The USA, and Britney Spears will do her bit for threesomes on the absolutely wild 3.
The soldier imagery! The choreography! The X Factor performance! Truly a pop culture moment from a star at the height of her powers.īelow her at No2 is Alexandra Burke, Chez’s own former X Factor protegee, with her almighty post-Hallelujah banger Bad Boys while Whitney Houston’s in the Top 5 for the final time in her lifetime with Million Dollar Bill, and Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’ Empire State Of Mind is becoming a mainstay of the Top 10.Īnd crikey, there’s so much to come in the weeks that follow, before 2009 becomes 2010.
Just look at the charts from this exact week in 2009: Cheryl is at the top with Fight For This Love then the fastest-selling track of the year. And while there’s plenty of good stuff on offer now, we really didn’t know how good we had it back then. Of course trends have come and gone, the way success is measured has changed, and plenty of new, completely different artists have emerged.