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Ciara Princess Harris (born October 25, 1985 in Austin, Texas) is an African-American hip-hop, R&B and pop singer-songwriter and actress.

Early life

During her childhood her father was in the military so she has lived in several countries, but claims Atlanta, Georgia as her hometown. She is of African-American, Creole, German, and Irish descent. She has said that it was seeing a televised performance by Destiny's Child that inspired her to pursue a career in music. In her early teens she formed the goal to become a professional singer. She joined a girl group called Hearsay, worked on her songwriting, eventually left the group, got a publishing deal, and found a "music soul mate" when she met producer Jazze Pha. [1]

Career

Goodies

File:Ciara Goodies Music Album Cover.jpg
Ciara's debut album Goodies

Ciara's debut single, "Goodies", became a hit, reaching the top of the United States pop charts, and also charting in the United Kingdom (in January 2005, also reaching number one), Australia, Germany, Sweden, and New Zealand. With help from Pha, Garrett, and Lil Jon, Ciara released her debut album, Goodies in September 2004. It entered the Billboard 200 chart at #3, and sold over two milion copies in the USA alone. The second single, "1, 2 Step", featuring Missy Elliott, reached the top five in the U.S., peaking at #2 in early 2005. The single was released in the U.K. on April 11 the same year, and reached #3, benefiting from the fact that it was the first week that downloads were incorporated into the singles chart. Ciara charted one place higher than she would have done if downloads had not been included in the chart formula; she would have instead swapped places with Elvis Presley's re-issue of "The Wonder of You" at #4.

In May 2005, Ciara's third single, "Oh" featuring Ludacris, reached #2 on the Hot 100 and #4 on the U.K. charts. In July of 2005 she released her DVD of all three of her music videos, the makings of two of them, commentaries of two of them, behind the scenes footage of her rehearsals for the Soul Train Awards, and multi-angle shots of Goodies, entitled Goodies: The Videos & More. Furthermore Ciara was featured on Missy Elliott's #3 hit "Lose Control", taken from the rapper's sixth album, The Cookbook. In the fall of 2005, she was featured singing alongside past love interest, Bow Wow, on the second single from his third album Wanted entitled Like You. The duet also reached a peak of #3. In the meantime her fourth single, And I, was released and peaked at #96 which was relatively poor compared to the first three singles.

In the December of 2005 Ciara joined Gwen Stefani on her "Harajuku Lovers Tour", before going on tour with Bow Wow and Chris Brown for the "Holladay Jam" which stopped at cities like New York and Atlanta. On February 8, 2006 Ciara won her first Grammy for Best Short Form Music Video along with Missy Elliott. She also performed a duet with Maroon 5's Adam Levine during the show in tribute to the legendary R&B musician Sly Stone, entitled Everyday People. Afterwards Ciara finished a MTV coming-of-age film, entitled All You've Got. The movie premiered on May 20 and was later released on DVD.

New album

Currently, Ciara is featured on Field Mob's single off of their third album, Light Poles and Pine Trees, entitled "So What". She is also working on her sophomore album which will be released in the summer of 2006 and involves producers Jazze Pha, Rodney Jerkins and Sean Garrett. [2] Furthermore Ciara participated in a charity single for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, written and produced by Michael Jackson. The single, entitled "I Have This Dream", is also to be released sometime in 2006.

Discography

Albums

Singles

Year Title Album Peak (US)
2004
"Goodies" (ft. Petey Pablo)
"Goodies"
#1 (7 weeks)
2004
"1, 2 Step" (ft. Missy Elliott)
"Goodies"
#2
2005
"Oh" (ft. Ludacris)
"Goodies"
#2
2005
"And I" ¹
"Goodies"
#96
2005
"Lose Control" (Missy Elliot ft. Ciara & Fat Man Scoop)
The Cookbook
#3
2005
"Like You" (Bow Wow ft. Ciara)
Wanted
#3
2006
"So What" (Field Mob ft. Ciara)
Light Poles And Pine Trees
#14
Notes:
  1. Not released outside the US.

Album appearances

Remixes

  • 2005: "If I Can Hit (Remix)" (with 112 & T.I.)

Soundtrack appearances

DVDs & Videos

Videography

Awards

Filmography

External links

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