Five years after becoming the youngest female to win ‘American Idol’, Jordin Sparks restarts her career in a new movie role that the 22-year-old sees as remarkably close to her own life singing her way to fame.
Just like her real-life parents, Sparks’ onscreen mother Whitney Houston cheered and coached her, off camera, as she rebounded from career changes and transitioned from music to the movie ‘Sparkle’, which hits theatres on Friday.Houston, in the last screen role before her accidental death in February, plays a tough mother who is set on sabotaging her daughter’s dream in her last, feisty role before her accidental death in February.”Sparkle’ came at a moment where I was actually pretty unsure with what was happening in my career,’ Sparks told Reuters.The singer released two albums after winning ‘Idol’ and was nominated for a Grammy for her collaboration with Chris Brown on the 2009 pop song ‘No Air’. A year later she tried her hand on Broadway like many past ‘Idol’ alums, in the Tony Award-winning show ‘In the Heights’. – Nampa-Reuters
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