Jennifer Holliday
USA
Born: 19 October 1960
Genres: Pop/Rock, R&B, Stage & Screen, Jazz, Vocal
Styles: Soul, R&B/Soul, Urban, Hip-Hop/Urban, Quiet Storm, Cast Recordings, Musical Theater, Vocal Jazz, Vocal/Standards
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Texan Jennifer Holliday gained national recognition when she had the lead in the Broadway musical Your Arm's Too Short to Box with God. Her performance led to her star-making performance in Dreamgirls, an adaptation of The Supremes' saga. The show featured her show-stealing take on "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going," which became a hit single in 1982. That led her to a career in pop music, although she never recaptured her initial success. She returned to the stage in 1985, appearing in Sing, Mahalia, Sing; she continued to release pop music ...
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