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Jazmine Sullivan

The protégé of rapper Missy Elliott, Jazmine Sullivan struck it big in 2008 with her debut single Need U Bad, though she had been primed for stardom long before that. Her mother was a back-up singer at Philadelphia International Records and Jazmine sang in church choirs and became a vocal music major at Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts. She was signed by Jive Records at 16 and recorded an entire album on which several tracks were produced by Missy Elliott and, although the album was never released, Elliott took Jazmine under her wing. It led to a new ...