Jennifer Paige

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Jennifer Paige (* 3. September 1973 in Marietta , Georgia as Jennifer Scoggins ) is an American pop singer and songwriter . The high point of her career was the world hit Crush , released in the summer of 1998 .

biography

Jennifer Paige was born into a family of musicians in Marietta (near Atlanta ). She started singing when she was five. She mostly did this in coffee shops or restaurants, together with her older brother Chance Scoggins . She studied dance, voice and performing arts at Pebblebrook High School . At the age of 17, she returned to Los Angeles and toured across the United States .

When Paige happened to meet actress and singer Crystal Bernard while performing in Las Vegas , she was thrilled by her voice. In August 1996, Paige performed in front of over 50,000 spectators at the Olympics in her hometown of Atlanta. That same year, Paige got together with producer Andy Goldmark . They wrote a lot of songs together. Paige signed a record deal with the German music label Edel Records .

In 1998 Goldmark and Paige completed a song called Crush . This song became a worldwide hit in the summer of 1998. It reached number 3 in the US, sold over 500,000 copies and received gold . In Great Britain it reached number 4. It also reached the top 20 in German-speaking countries. Paige followed up with her debut album of the same name and then toured around the world. In 1999 u. a. Appearances at the World Music Awards in Monte Carlo and at the Pope in Rome. In the USA and Great Britain it remained with this one hit, which is why Paige is also considered a one-hit wonder here .

Their second album Positivly Somewhere was not a commercial success. With a new team she produced her third album Best Kept Secret , which was released on April 25, 2008. In 2009 she released the song Beautiful Lie with Backstreet Boys member Nick Carter , which reached number 19 in the German single charts.

Paige is married to her husband Jason. Their daughter Stella Rose was born on October 5, 2014.

In December 2015, their fourth album with the working title Daydreamer was funded on the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter.com . The album was released in 2017 under the title Starflower .

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1998 Jennifer Paige DE41 (6 weeks)
DE 		- CH40 (1 week)
CH 		UK67 (1 week)
UK 		US139 (14 weeks)
US
First published: August 11, 1998
2001 Positively Somewhere DE91 (1 week)
DE 		- - - -
First published: September 18, 2001
2008 Best Kept Secret - - - - -
First published: April 25, 2008
2012 Holiday - - - - -
First published: November 11, 2012
2017 Starflower - - - - -
First published: March 31, 2017

Compilations

year title Remarks
2003 Flowers (The Hits Collection) First published: 2003

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1998 Crush
Jennifer Paige 		DE15 (15 weeks)
DE 		AT10 (12 weeks)
AT 		CH12 (15 weeks)
CH 		UK4th
gold
gold

(15 weeks)UK 		US3
gold
gold

(25 weeks)US
First published: June 16, 1998
1999 Sober
Jennifer Paige 		DE78 (7 weeks)
DE 		- - UK68 (1 week)
UK 		-
First published: February 19, 1999
Always You
Jennifer Paige 		DE76 (9 weeks)
DE 		- - UK81 (1 week)
UK 		-
First published: July 12, 1999
2002 Stranded
Positively Somewhere 		- - - UK79 (1 week)
UK 		-
First published: August 31, 2002
2009 Beautiful Lie
Best Kept Secret / I'm Taking Off 		DE19 (11 weeks)
DE 		AT49 (3 weeks)
AT 		- - -
First published: October 29, 2009
with Nick Carter

More singles

  • 2008: Underestimated
  • 2008: Ta Voix (The Calling) (with Lââm )
  • 2013: Everything Is Better (on the occasion of 30,000 likes on their Facebook page)
  • 2015: Is It Ever Enough (posted on her YouTube channel)
  • 2017: The Devil's in the Details
  • 2017: Forget Me Not

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Doreen Brumme: Jennifer Paige, singer (USA), in an interview with YaaCool. YaaCool Beauty, accessed June 22, 2015 .
  2. ↑ http://www.zimbio.com/One+Hit+Wonders+Revisited/articles/bU392LyNLex/One+Hit+Wonder+Revisited+Jennifer+Paige+Crush
  3. ↑ Congratulations To Singer Jennifer Paige
  4. ↑ Jennifer Paige Makes NEW ALBUM: Daydreamer
  5. ↑ https://www.discogs.com/Jennifer-Paige-Starflower/master/1161764
  6. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
  7. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK US
  8. ↑ RSH Gold Award 1999
personal data
SURNAME Paige, Jennifer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scoggins, Jennifer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American pop singer and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd September 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Marietta , Georgia