Christina Perri

Christina Perri ( Life Ball 2014)

Christina Judith Perri (born August 19, 1986 in Pennsylvania ) is an American singer-songwriter who became internationally known with her debut single Jar of Hearts .

Beginnings and personal life

Perri grew up in Bensalem , a suburb of Philadelphia . Her father has Italian, her mother Polish roots. At the age of eight, Perri began taking piano lessons ; at the age of 16 she taught herself to play the guitar by herself by watching the guitarist of the group Blind Melon in a video . Since then she has been writing her own songs. Her older brother Nick Perri played as a guitarist in rock bands such as Silvertide and Shinedown .

Perri attended Archbishop Ryan High School until 2004 . After finishing school, she went on tour as an assistant with her brother's band until she received a scholarship to the renowned University of the Arts (Philadelphia) . After a year she dropped out of college and spent some time in Italy to get to know the homeland of her paternal ancestors. Perri moved to Los Angeles on her 21st birthday and married that same year. After 18 months, the marriage ended in divorce, and Perri returned to Philadelphia, where she wrote the song Jar of Hearts in late 2009 . She returned to Los Angeles, worked as a waitress in a café during the day and recorded music videos in the evening, which she published on the YouTube video platform . It was through this way that a management in Hollywood became aware of the singer and contacted her via Facebook.

On December 12, 2017, she married her long-time friend Paul Costabile, to whom she was engaged since June 2017.

A distinctive feature of Perri are her numerous tattoos , which she says is one of the methods of expressing herself in addition to songwriting.

Career

Christina Perri (2011)

Perri's breakthrough began with the performance of her song Jar of Hearts on the dance show So You Think You Can Dance on June 30, 2010. Her friend Keltie Colleen, a Canadian dancer and TV presenter, had the song to the show's choreographer without Perri's knowledge cleverly. Perri and Colleen watched the performance in the audience. Following the broadcast, the song went straight to the Billboard Hot 100 and was sold 100,000 times within a month. Two weeks later the song was performed again on the show So You Think You Can Dance , this time sung live by Perri and accompanied on the piano. On July 21, 2010, she, who is now looked after by the management agency Bill Silva, signed a recording contract with Atlantic Records .

Tours and performances

Known to a larger American audience through several television appearances (CBS, Jay Leno ), Perri started her first tour in the spring of 2011 in the opening act for James Blunt . Her first tour as headliner took her under the title Lovestrong Tour since July 2011 through North America, Australia and Europe. Subsequently, in the late summer of 2012, she accompanied the American singer-songwriter Jason Mraz on the North American part of his world tour. On February 18, 2012, Perri sang her song Jar of Hearts before the world championship boxing match between Vitali Klitschko and Dereck Chisora in the Olympiahalle in Munich.

Publications

On November 9, 2010, Perri released an extended play called The Ocean Way Sessions , which also included the song Jar of Hearts . Perri's debut album Lovestrong , produced by eight-time Grammy winner Joe Chiccarelli , was released on May 10, 2011 in the USA and on January 27, 2012 in Germany. Perris' song A Thousand Years is included in the soundtrack to the film Breaking Dawn - Bite to the End of the Night, Part 1 , and this song also appears in the credits of Breaking Dawn - Bite to the End of the Night, Part 2 . On October 16, 2012 a Christmas EP was released with the title A Very Merry Perri Christmas . On April 1, 2014 their second album Head or Heart was released . The single Human had previously been released.

Discography

Albums

year	Title music label	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2011	Lovestrong. Atlantic	DE8 (12 weeks) DE	AT7 (11 weeks) AT	CH6 (15 weeks) CH	UK9 gold (36 weeks)UK	US4th platinum (30 weeks)US	First published: May 10, 2011
2014	Head or Heart Atlantic	DE72 (1 week) DE	AT41 (1 week) AT	CH16 (3 weeks) CH	UK8 (6 weeks) UK	US4th gold (10 weeks)US	First published: April 1, 2014

More albums

year	Title music label	Remarks
2019	Songs for Carmella: Lullabies & Sing-a-Longs Atlantic	First published: January 17, 2019

EPs

year	Title music label	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2010	The Ocean Way Sessions Atlantic	-	-	-	-	US144 (1 week) US	First published: November 9, 2010
2012	A Very Merry Perri Christmas Atlantic	-	-	-	-	US98 (2 weeks) US	First published: October 16, 2012

More EPs

year	Title music label	Remarks
2011	The Karaoke Collection Atlantic	First published: May 10, 2011
2014	Human (Remixes) Atlantic	First published: March 18, 2014
	Burning Gold Remixes Atlantic	First published: November 4, 2014

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2010	Jar of Hearts Lovestrong.	DE5 platinum (32 weeks)DE	AT3 platinum (22 weeks)AT	CH5 × 2 Double platinum (24 weeks)CH	UK4th × 2 Double platinum (55 weeks)UK	US17th × 5 Quintuple platinum (31 weeks)US	First published: July 27, 2010
2011	Arms Lovestrong.	-	-	-	-	US94 platinum (2 weeks)US	First published: February 4, 2011
	A Thousand Years Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (OST)	DE- gold DE	AT19 (7 weeks) AT	CH21st gold (9 weeks)CH	UK11 × 3 Triple platinum (88 weeks)UK	US31 × 8 Eight times platinum (26 weeks)US	First published: November 5, 2011
2012	A Thousand Years, Pt. 2 Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (OST)	DE26 (10 weeks) DE	-	-	-	US53 gold (3 weeks)US	First published: October 18th, 2012 feat. Steve Kazee
2013	Human head or heart	DE59 (2 weeks) DE	AT42 (2 weeks) AT	CH14 (5 weeks) CH	UK14th gold (11 weeks)UK	US31 × 2 Double platinum (20 weeks)US	First published: November 18, 2013

More singles

• 2012: Distance ( feat.Jason Mraz )
• 2014: Burning Gold
• 2014: The Words
• 2019: Tiny Victories

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Australia 2012: for the album Lovestrong. 2017: for the single Human  Denmark 2014: for streaming A Thousand Years 2019: for the single Human 2019: for the single Jar of Hearts Platinum record  Denmark 2019: for the single A Thousand Years  Canada 2012: for the single A Thousand Years 2015: for the single Human

2 × platinum record  Italy 2018: for the single A Thousand Years  Canada 2012: for the single Jar of Hearts  New Zealand 2013: for the single A Thousand Years 3 × platinum record  Australia 2011: for the single Jar of Hearts 7 × platinum record  Australia 2018: for the single A Thousand Years

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Australia (ARIA)	2 × gold2	10 × platinum10	770,000	aria.com.au
Denmark (IFPI)	3 × gold3	platinum1	180,000	ifpi.dk
Germany (BVMI)	gold1	platinum1	450,000	musikindustrie.de
Italy (FIMI)	-	2 × platinum2	100,000	fimi.it
Canada (MC)	-	4 × platinum4th	320,000	musiccanada.com
New Zealand (RMNZ)	-	2 × platinum2	30,000	nztop40.co.nz
Austria (IFPI)	-	platinum1	30,000	ifpi.at
Switzerland (IFPI)	gold1	2 × platinum2	75,000	hitparade.ch
United States (RIAA)	2 × gold2	17 × platinum17th	18,000,000	riaa.com
United Kingdom (BPI)	2 × gold2	5 × platinum5	3,500,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	11 × gold11	45 × platinum45

swell

1. ↑ Christina Perri: "Kiss me or I'll die!" (From 4:10) . joiz. Retrieved May 14, 2012.
2. ↑ Christina Perri - wywiad (from 4:55) . WarnerMusicPoland. Retrieved May 14, 2012.
3. ^ Gavin Edwards: Band of the Week . Rolling Stone . Retrieved May 16, 2012.
4. ↑ Lopez, Korina: Christina Perri praised open the lid to fame with 'Jar of Hearts' . In: USA Today , July 13, 2010. Retrieved July 25, 2010. 
5. ↑ Video interview with Bonedo
6. ↑ Christina Perri: She's under the hood . In: BUNTE.de . ( Bunte.de [accessed December 24, 2017]).
7. ↑ Singer Christina Perri has 45 tattoos! . Promiflash. Retrieved May 14, 2012.
8. ^ Santino Palazzolo: Unsigned Christina Perri dances on the charts . Billboard . July 9, 2010. Retrieved July 18, 2010.
9. ↑ http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/reality-rocks/so-you-think-you-can-dance-changes-unsigned-singer-christina-perris-life.html
10. ^ Examiner: James Blunt and Christina Perri Tour Review . Retrieved May 14, 2012.
11. ↑ Announcing… Tour Is A Four Letter Word - 2012 World Tour . jasonmraz.com. Archived from the original on May 31, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 14, 2012. 
12. ↑ Heavyweight boxing world champion - Vitali Klitschko defends title against Chisora . sueddeutsche.de. Retrieved May 14, 2012.
13. ^ The Ocean Way Sessions: Christina Perri . In: Allmusic . Retrieved December 21, 2010.
14. ↑ Christina Perri interview: Beatweek 2011 Rising Star talks Lovestrong . Archived from the original on May 27, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 16, 2012. 
15. ↑ http://www.christinaperri.com/blog/announcing-very-merry-perri-christmas-187601
16. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US

Web links

Commons : Christina Perri  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Christina Perri in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• German website by Christina Perri (Warner Music Germany)
• Christina Perri's official website