

Ciara's awards include three BET Awards, three MTV Video Music Awards, three MOBO Awards, and one Grammy Award.

Her seventh album, Beauty Marks (2019), included the hit single " Level Up". Her sixth album, Jackie (2015), included the singles " I Bet" and " Dance like We're Making Love".

In 2013, she released her fifth studio album, Ciara, which spawned the R&B top-ten single " Body Party". Ciara signed a new record deal with Epic Records in 2011. The following year, Ciara released her fourth studio album Basic Instinct, which included the R&B top-five single " Ride" (featuring Ludacris), but was met with low sales, continuing a downward trend in her commercial performance. However, it produced the international top-ten single " Love Sex Magic" (featuring Justin Timberlake), which received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals. and was certified platinum.Ĭiara's third studio album, Fantasy Ride (2009) was less successful than her first two albums. In 2006, Ciara released her second studio album, Ciara: The Evolution, which spawned the hit singles " Get Up" (featuring Chamillionaire), " Promise", " Like a Boy" and " Can't Leave 'em Alone" (featuring 50 Cent). Ciara was also featured on Missy Elliott's " Lose Control" and Bow Wow's " Like You", both of which reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100. The album was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and garnered two nominations at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards. "Goodies" topped the Billboard Hot 100, and also topped the charts in the United Kingdom, while "1, 2 Step" and "Oh" both peaked at two on the Hot 100 and charted within the top five in the UK. In 2004, Ciara released her debut studio album, Goodies, which spawned four singles: " Goodies" (featuring Petey Pablo), " 1, 2 Step" (featuring Missy Elliott), " Oh" (featuring Ludacris) and " And I". With his help, Ciara signed a record deal with LaFace Records. She later signed a publishing deal and befriended producer Jazze Pha, who recorded demos that would appear on her debut album. Born in Fort Hood, Texas, her family eventually settled in Atlanta, Georgia, where she joined the girl group Hearsay. It's a book of revelations that will inspire all readers to reach for their greatest potential.Ciara Princess Wilson ( / s i ˈ ɛər ə/ see- AIR-ə née Harris, born October 25, 1985) is an American singer-songwriter, dancer, model and actress. Life Is Not a Fairy Tale is more than just a celebrity success story. She turns all that she's learned into uplifting life lessons, including:įantasia keeps it real with her sassy, self-confident style and down-to-earth advice, making readers laugh and cry with her. In Life Is Not a Fairy Tale, Fantasia speaks - with a spirit as strong as her voice - about what it takes to believe in the power of one's self. But Fantasia had been raised by two strong, influential women: Both her grandmother and mother are preachers, and she was raised with an unshakable faith. But life wasn't always sensational for Fantasia.Īt the age of seventeen, despite the promise of her extraordinary voice, Fantasia was in danger of becoming just another sad statistic: an uneducated, unmarried teenage mother living in the projects. Her powerful voice and independent style made her an overnight national sensation.

In one moment, with one tearful performance of "Summertime," the nineteen-year-old Fantasia captured the hearts - and the votes - of millions of American Idol fans. FANTASIA tells of her astonishing rise from hopeless high school dropout to American Idol superstar in the inspirational New York Times bestseller Life Is Not a Fairy Tale
