Jordin established herself as the youngest participant in American Idol season 6 who won the competition. After winning the 6th season of American Idol in 2007, she earned worldwide recognition at the age of just 17. Since then she continued to drop albums and tracks which helped her to make a name for herself in the music world. Sparks is also known for her self-titled debut studio album which she released in November of 2007 and it became massively successful by earning platinum status from the (RIAA). Furthermore, the album became a commercial success and sold over 2 million copies globally. The young singer also grabbed the attention of several accolades and earned a Grammy Award nomination in the Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals category for one of the tracks included in her debut project. Aside from earning fame in music, Jordin also starred in a number of movies and TV shows throughout her career. She is just at the beginning of her career and it seems in the following years Jordin will be on the list of highest-paid Hollywood celebrities.
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Early Life:
Jordin Brianna Sparks was born on the 22nd of December 1989 in Phoenix, Arizona, and was raised in Ridgewood, New Jersey. Her father Phillippi Sparks is known for being a former professional football player. Jordin grew up with her younger brother Phillippi “PJ” Sparks, Jr., who is pursuing a career in the field of football at the University of North Dakota. Her father was a defensive back for the New York Giants, so she spent most of her time growing up in an Evangelical Christian household in Ridgewood, New Jersey suburbs. Moving on to her education, she enrolled at Northwest Community Christian School in Phoenix until the 8th grade. She also attended Sandra Day O’Connor High School for her freshman year in 2006. Around this time, Jordin was passionate about her passion to become a singer and actress, so she decided to homeschool her grandmother named Pam Wiedmann. Jordin is an evangelical Christian and attends Calvary Community Church while growing up in Phonix.
Singing Career:
Jordin’s music career started when she began participating in various talent competitions in her early life. She also earned some early recognition after performing the national anthem on local sporting occasions. She got a chance to went on tour with Alice Cooper back in 2004 and then toured with Michael W. Smith in 2006. In that same year, Jordin entered the modeling industry and was featured in the 2006 issue of “Seventeen” Magazine. The turning point of her career came when she auditioned for a popular reality show, American Idol in L.A. At first, she failed to become a part of the show in 2006. Jordin came to the spotlight in 2007 after winning the 6th season of American Idol and at that time she was just 17 years old. She also came up as the youngest ever to win the contest reality series. Since then she made her return to this show more than 6 times and sang several songs on the show. Shortly after winning the show, Sparks was the lead choice for many high-profile record labels, she eventually signed with Jive Records and began recording her debut project. Under the deal, Jordin dropped her self-titled debut studio album in November of 2007. The album has managed to sell over 1 million records all around the world and also included the 2 hit singles Tattoo and No Air which charted in the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100. In 2008 another popular singer Jason Derulo collaborated with her to record many of his singles. At the same time, Jordin was ready to embark North American tour with Alicia Keys. In the following years, Sparks came up with the release of her 2nd studio album entitled Battlefield which hit several charts by peaking at number 7 on the Billboard 200. The album contains the track S.O.S. (Let the Music Play) which came up as Sparks’ first chart-topping single on the Hot Dance Club Play chart. She found herself becoming the only contestant on American Idol with 5 tracks in the country’s top 20. After having sold over 1.3 million albums and 10.2 million singles in the US as of 2012, Sparks became the most accomplished American Idol Contest ever. According to the 2012 VH1 list, Sparks is “100 Greatest Women in Music“. After earning success from her track S.O.S. (Let the Music Play), Jordin went on to tour with many other high-profile artists including Britney Spears, The Jonas Brothers, and many more. In the year 2013, her album Tattoos was released after multiple delays due to problems with her record label. In the following year, she signed a deal with Louder than Life a Saleem Remi’s record label. Jordin’s 3rd album Right Here Right Now was released in 2015. Then in 2020, Sparks dropped her fourth album called Cider & Hennessy. Jordin’s music journey led her to win several awards and accolades throughout her career. She won her first award, an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding New Artist. She has released a total of 25 tracks, 4 EPs, as well as 4 studio albums.
Acting Career:
In 2009 Jordin Sparks made her acting debut appearing in an episode of the American teen sitcom The Suite Life on Deck. She then got a guest role in the Nickelodeon show Big Time Rush. In 2010 Sparks made her Broadway debut after being cast in “In the Heights” in which she played the role of Nina Rosario. She then came up as a voice artist and provided vocals for the character Blue Mermaid in the computer-animated musical Team Umizoomi. In 2012 Sparks’ debut film Sparkle was released in which she was cast as Sparkle Anderson. She played a supporting role in The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete and then continued to appear in films such as Dear Secret Santa in 2013. In 2017 Sparks also played the supporting lead role of Nicole Lovely in The Grace of Jake. In the year 2013, she starred in several television shows like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, American Music Awards, and Fashion Police. That same year she played Abby in a lifetime television romance drama film Dear Secret Santa. In 2014 Jordin earned recognition for her performance in the Christian film about the rapture titled Left Behind in which he played Shasta Carvell. In 2018 she voiced in the animated comedy film Show Dogs. At the same time, another film God Bless the Broken Road was released where she was cast as Bridgette. In 2019 Sparks was cast as a Broadway replacement for Jenna Hunterson in the musical Waitress, shortly after the release of the web series Heart of Batter with Jordin Sparks, in 2018. She participated as an unfamiliar Bird in the reality competition series The Masked Dancer where she was a fifth-place finisher.
Awards:
Jordin Sparks won several awards throughout her acting and singing career, including, the NAACP Image Awards, BET Awards, Teen Choice Awards, American Music Awards, People’s Choice Awards, BMI Pop Awards, and Soul Train Awards, among others. Sparks also earned many award nominations for her works such as the Teen Choice Awards, MTV Video Music Awards, Grammy Awards, MTV Australia Awards, and ARIA Music Awards for Most Popular Australian Single “Art of Love”.
Philanthropy:
To raise the funds for orphans, Jordin launched a Swarovski Crystal-encrusted denim jacket in 2007. In the following year, she reached Africa with a group called “Malaria No More” which is known for stopping malaria fatalities in Africa by 2015. In Ghana, Jordin attended Laura Bush at the Maamobi Polyclinic, where the Bushes offered multiple dined bed nets to local women vendors to assist fight the malaria epidemic. Jordin sung “Amazing Grace” which was heard by The chieftains’ durbar. Sparks was featured in a public benefit commercial sketching the nationwide school supply group assignment for Dosomething.org’s Do Something 101 organization in 2008. In 2009 Jordin became a promoter for the Got Milk? the movement, which encourages the consumption of cow’s milk all around America. She has sung in the VH1 Divas special, which was set on to raise funds for the channel’s Save The Music Foundation. Jordin was among the artists who donated to the charity song “We Are the World 25 for Haiti”, which was dropped back in 2010 to help sufferers of the Haiti tragedy. Sparks teamed up with the founder and inventor of Pennyroyal Silver named Tim Foster, to launch her own necklace innovation for the company’s hallmark collection, with payoffs helping Haiti’s medical teams.
Personal Life:
In August of 2011, Jordin Sparks and popular singer Jason Derulo started dating. The two were in a romantic relationship for almost three years. It was the time in September 2014 when the couple announced that they were separated. In early 2015 Sparks and rapper Sage the Gemini were in a serious relationship but later broke up in May of that year. Jordin Sparks and Dana Isaiah Thomas, a fitness model started dating in the summer of 2017. Not long after, the two married in Hawaii in July of that year. On the 2nd of May 2018 Sparks gave birth to her first child, a son named Dana Isaiah Thomas Jr.
Endorsements:
Jordin Sparks has won numerous accolades over the years and she has established herself as the top choice for some high-profile brands. A lot of labels want her to serve as their brand ambassador. After winning the American Idol, she started getting offers from big names for their product endorsements. Sparks teamed up with a cosmetics firm called Avon in 2008. She then began promoting their beauty line, Mark. In that same year, she also teamed up with retail business Wet Seal to launch her own merch line known as “Sparks.” Sparks came up with the launch of her first brand a fragrance line called “Because of You…” in 2010. At first, that perfume was only available at Dots Department Stores, but later Jordin expanded her business and now it is available at all the other popular shops. After seeing a lot of success with this fragrance, she decided to release her 2nd and 3rd scent brands entitled Fascinate, and Ambition.
House:
Jordin Sparks has been living a super luxurious lifestyle with her husband Dana Isaiah and their young son Dana Jr, aka DJ. In the year 2017, she put her Hollywood Hills home on the market, for about $1.85 million, and the mansion was purchased by her for about $1.5 million in 2013. This 2,509 square feet living space home comes with an open plan design and features 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, as well as a lavish swimming pool with a spacious garden, a movie theater, a home gym, a big living room, and much more. This mansion is located in the highly coveted Lakeridge Estate, a neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills, and offers a beautiful view of the surrounding mountains plus a Hollywood sign.
Cars:
Jeep Rubicon $70,000BMW 4 Series $58,500
Jordin Sparks Net Worth:
As of 2023, Jordin Sparks Net Worth is estimated to be around $8 million. She first established herself as the most financially fortunate “American Idol” contest of all time after selling more than 1.3 million songs in the US alone by 2012 and then earned a name for herself in the American entertainment industry by appearing in numerous hit shows and movies. The plurality of the income she earns is from her singing and acting career. Along with that, she is also quite active in other ventures such as businesses, brand endorsements, as well as Philanthropic work. In the early of her career, she also pursued her career in the modeling industry but it was short-lived. She is famously known for her single No Air which she uploaded on her YouTube channel. The music video of No Air amassed over 350 million views on YouTube. Her debut album, Jordin Sparks earned her recognition and also spawns the hit singles Tattoo and No Air. No Air, her collab with Chris Brown is one of the highest-selling singles by any American Idol contestant to date. Mandy Harvey’s Net Worth Grace Venderwaal’s Net Worth
