Jennifer Holliday
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Jennifer-Yvette Holliday (born October 19, 1960, Riverside, Texas
) is an African-American singer and Tony Award
-winning actress. She started her career on Broadway
in musicals such as Dreamgirls, and later became a successful recording artist. She is best known for her debut single
, the Dreamgirls showstopper and Grammy Award
-winning R&B
/Pop
hit, "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going
."
production of Your Arms Too Short to Box with God
. Her performance in that musical earned her a 1981 Drama Desk nomination. Her next role, which she began to act out at 21, was the role for which she became best known: the role of Effie Melody White in the Broadway
musical Dreamgirls. Jennifer originated the role of Effie and remained with the show for nearly four years after its December 20, 1981 opening. Her performance in the role was widely acclaimed, particularly in her iconic performance of the musical number that ends Act I, "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going
."
Among the acclaim was Holliday's sweep of awards in 1982, including the Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical
, a Grammy award for her recorded version of the song, and Drama Desk and Theater World awards for her acting performance. Holliday also performed in the touring company of Sing, Mahalia, Sing in 1985. In 1998 Holliday was featured on the album "My Favorite Broadway Ladies" notice as one of "The Queens of Broadway."
Holliday's later R&B hits included. "Hard Time For Lovers" (1985), "No Frills Love" (1985), "Heart on the Line" (1987), "I'm on Your Side" (1991) and "A Woman's Got the Power" (2000). "A Woman's Got the Power" charted at #7 in summer of 1999. However, it recharted the following year, peaking at #1. She continued to appear on the charts throughout the 1990s, but never had the same level of success she had in the 1980s. Holliday was a featured vocalist on the #1 single "I Want to Know What Love Is" by Foreigner in 1985. A number of her songs became hits on the US Dance charts as well. In fact, a dance version of "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" would peak at #6 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 2001.
, The Oak Ridge Boys
, Andrae Crouch
, The Edwin Hawkins Singers, and the Mighty Clouds of Joy. The show began with Holiday singing "His Eye Is On The Sparrow." Later, she returned to collaborate with Simon and Vandross on "Still Waters Run Deep," followed by an Aretha Franklin
arrangement of "Bridge Over Troubled Water
," with the finale consisting of all the participants joining in "Gone At Last," followed by "Amazing Grace."
linda
A reviewer, whose identity was not known by late February 2011, wrote:
Holliday became popular with LGBT events and fundraisers, which she acknowledged on her gospel album On and On. Because of this, the Atlantic Entertainment Group's Director of Live Talent, Scott Sherman, produced and promoted many Jennifer Holliday events for several years, acting as both Holliday's de facto agent and road manager. Under Sherman's aegis, Holliday went on a series of special tours and promotions, one-night-only performances, LGBT pride appearances and special fund raising events. Her fans commenced to wait patiently for her to release new singles, and perhaps even a full-length club/dance-style album, and to assume that this might happen once she was re-signed to another record label.
In the 1990s, Holliday lost a substantial amount of weight and talked about her health struggles with depression during promotional interviews. Initially, the weight loss was attained strictly by diet. Eventually, in an effort to avoid regaining the weight, Holliday had gastric bypass surgery. After the initial weight loss, she released an LP and video titled I’m On Your Side. The video, unlike most videos, was recorded live. In 1995, Holliday released the gospel album On & On. In a March 2008 interview, she revealed that she was in the studio working on a new album, to be released later that year.
In October 2011, Holliday released a Christian CD titled God is Faithul on her own Euphonic Records label. She produced it in conjunction and cooperation with the Rev. Raphael G. Warnock.
, Holliday has also made appearances on primetime television. In addition to appearances on Touched By An Angel
and Hang Time
, she had a half dozen appearances in a recurring guest star role on Ally McBeal
, where she acted out the role of choir
director Lisa Knowles.
In 2001, she sang America The Beautiful on the first WWE
pay-per-view to be held after the September 11 terrorist attacks.
On June 26, 2007, Holliday made a surprise appearance at the BET Awards
, singing "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going
" in a duet with Jennifer Hudson
, who had played Effie White in the 2006 film adaptation of Dreamgirls
, and won an Oscar for her performance. Holliday had not been offered a cameo
role in the film and, feeling snubbed, had repeatedly expressed displeasure with the movie in the media. (Another original Dreamgirls cast member, Loretta Devine
, did have a cameo in the film.)
More recently, it became possible to see Holliday in a YouTube
video, singing a duet with Hudson. The two actresses-singers performed their live duet at a concert Hudson gave on April 16, 2009. The YouTube video had been viewed over 700,000 times as of late February of 2011.
On October 17, 2011 Holliday appeared on The Wendy Williams Show. Her self described "transparency" was appreciated by the audience and Wendy, who said she, "would give good talk," and she did. Holliday also performed a moving rendition of "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" at the end of the show. Her gripping performance brought the audience to their feet. Her style is all her own and her voice is as beautiful as ever. She gave the entire auidence autographed copies of her new CD, "God is Faithful." The chemistry between Wendy and Jennifer was clear to all, they were relaxed and spontaneous and the audience loved it. America needs to see Jennifer perform more, hopefully it will be on the Wendy show.
The second time around, she married a man much like her father. Her second marriage, which began on March 21, 1993 and ended in 1994, was to Rev. Andre Woods, a minister in Michigan. Jet
magazine covered the marriage in one of its issues. Though Woods was a charismatic Detroit preacher, she subsequently said that even so, he was a player who also ran through her money. Still, Holliday was devastated when, in 1994, that marriage, too, ended, just four months after her mother died of cancer. "It was like experiencing two deaths at the same time," Jennifer remembered. "The grief was overwhelming." As of late February 2011, she was residing in Atlanta, Georgia.
Holliday received a Doctor of Music honoris causa from Berklee College of Music
, Boston in 2000. In 2001 she was presenter for the tap dance show "21 Below" at Town Hall in NYC and also headlined Equity Cares/Broadway Fights Aids' "Nothing Like a Dame" show at the St. James Theatre where she was accompanied by teenage tap dance sensation Michela Marino Lerman and Hannah Leah Dunn.
Nominations
Riverside, Texas
Riverside is a small city in Walker County, Texas, United States. The population was 425 at the 2000 census. Two famous natives of Riverside are singer-actress Jennifer Holliday , best known for her creation of the role of Effie in the successful Tony-award winning Broadway musical...
) is an African-American singer and Tony Award
Tony Award
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are given for Broadway...
-winning actress. She started her career on Broadway
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
in musicals such as Dreamgirls, and later became a successful recording artist. She is best known for her debut single
Single (music)
In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...
, the Dreamgirls showstopper and Grammy Award
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
-winning R&B
Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...
/Pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
hit, "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going
And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going
"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" is a torch song from the Broadway musical Dreamgirls, with lyrics by Tom Eyen and music by Henry Krieger...
."
Broadway actress
Jennifer landed her first big role on Broadway in 1979. At age 19, she landed a part the same day she auditioned for the BroadwayBroadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
production of Your Arms Too Short to Box with God
Your Arms Too Short to Box with God
Your Arms Too Short to Box with God: A Soaring Celebration in Song and Dance is a Broadway musical based on the Biblical Book of Matthew, with music and lyrics by Alex Bradford and a book by Vinnette Carroll, who also directed...
. Her performance in that musical earned her a 1981 Drama Desk nomination. Her next role, which she began to act out at 21, was the role for which she became best known: the role of Effie Melody White in the Broadway
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
musical Dreamgirls. Jennifer originated the role of Effie and remained with the show for nearly four years after its December 20, 1981 opening. Her performance in the role was widely acclaimed, particularly in her iconic performance of the musical number that ends Act I, "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going
And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going
"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" is a torch song from the Broadway musical Dreamgirls, with lyrics by Tom Eyen and music by Henry Krieger...
."
Among the acclaim was Holliday's sweep of awards in 1982, including the Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical
Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical
The Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical is the Tony Awards award given to the actress who was voted as the best leading actress in a musical, whether a new production or a revival...
, a Grammy award for her recorded version of the song, and Drama Desk and Theater World awards for her acting performance. Holliday also performed in the touring company of Sing, Mahalia, Sing in 1985. In 1998 Holliday was featured on the album "My Favorite Broadway Ladies" notice as one of "The Queens of Broadway."
Recording artist
Jennifer Holiday's version of the song "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" made her a star on Broadway and catapulted her to national stardom. Her version of the song was enjoyed so much by many fans that Holliday was encouraged to transform the song into a hit on the Billboard charts. In 1982, a pop version of the song was released as a single. The song became very successful, peaking at number-one on the Billboard R&B Singles chart, and number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. She continued to have success as a recording artist through the rest of the decade. Her follow-up song, "I Am Love", became another hit in 1983.Holliday's later R&B hits included. "Hard Time For Lovers" (1985), "No Frills Love" (1985), "Heart on the Line" (1987), "I'm on Your Side" (1991) and "A Woman's Got the Power" (2000). "A Woman's Got the Power" charted at #7 in summer of 1999. However, it recharted the following year, peaking at #1. She continued to appear on the charts throughout the 1990s, but never had the same level of success she had in the 1980s. Holliday was a featured vocalist on the #1 single "I Want to Know What Love Is" by Foreigner in 1985. A number of her songs became hits on the US Dance charts as well. In fact, a dance version of "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" would peak at #6 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 2001.
Gospel singer
On October 30, 1986, Paul Simon hosted a Ken Ehrlich-Produced "Gospel Session" originally televised as part of a series of "Cinemax Sessions" featuring Holiday, Luther VandrossLuther Vandross
Luther Ronzoni Vandross was an American singer-songwriter and record producer. During his career, Vandross sold over twenty-five million albums and won eight Grammy Awards including Best Male R&B Vocal Performance four times...
, The Oak Ridge Boys
The Oak Ridge Boys
The Oak Ridge Boys are an American country and gospel vocal quartet.The group was founded in the 1940s as the Oak Ridge Quartet. They became popular in southern gospel during the 1950s...
, Andrae Crouch
Andrae Crouch
Andraé Crouch is a seven-time Grammy Award-winning American gospel singer, songwriter, arranger, recording artist, record producer, and pastor.-Early years:Born Andraé Edward Crouch in San Francisco, California....
, The Edwin Hawkins Singers, and the Mighty Clouds of Joy. The show began with Holiday singing "His Eye Is On The Sparrow." Later, she returned to collaborate with Simon and Vandross on "Still Waters Run Deep," followed by an Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin
Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Although known for her soul recordings and referred to as The Queen of Soul, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B, gospel music, and rock. Rolling Stone magazine ranked her atop its list of The Greatest Singers of All...
arrangement of "Bridge Over Troubled Water
Bridge over Troubled Water (song)
"Bridge Over Troubled Water" is the title song of Simon & Garfunkel's album of the same name. The single was released on January 26, 1970, though it also appears on the live album Live 1969, released in 2008. It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on February 28, 1970, and stayed at...
," with the finale consisting of all the participants joining in "Gone At Last," followed by "Amazing Grace."
linda
A reviewer, whose identity was not known by late February 2011, wrote:
Holliday became popular with LGBT events and fundraisers, which she acknowledged on her gospel album On and On. Because of this, the Atlantic Entertainment Group's Director of Live Talent, Scott Sherman, produced and promoted many Jennifer Holliday events for several years, acting as both Holliday's de facto agent and road manager. Under Sherman's aegis, Holliday went on a series of special tours and promotions, one-night-only performances, LGBT pride appearances and special fund raising events. Her fans commenced to wait patiently for her to release new singles, and perhaps even a full-length club/dance-style album, and to assume that this might happen once she was re-signed to another record label.
Health concerns and career renewal
In the 1990s, Holliday lost a substantial amount of weight and talked about her health struggles with depression during promotional interviews. Initially, the weight loss was attained strictly by diet. Eventually, in an effort to avoid regaining the weight, Holliday had gastric bypass surgery. After the initial weight loss, she released an LP and video titled I’m On Your Side. The video, unlike most videos, was recorded live. In 1995, Holliday released the gospel album On & On. In a March 2008 interview, she revealed that she was in the studio working on a new album, to be released later that year.
In October 2011, Holliday released a Christian CD titled God is Faithul on her own Euphonic Records label. She produced it in conjunction and cooperation with the Rev. Raphael G. Warnock.
Television Appearances
Apart from her career in the music industry and on the stageStage (theatre)
In theatre or performance arts, the stage is a designated space for the performance productions. The stage serves as a space for actors or performers and a focal point for the members of the audience...
, Holliday has also made appearances on primetime television. In addition to appearances on Touched By An Angel
Touched by an Angel
Touched by an Angel is an American drama series that premiered on CBS on September 21, 1994 and ran for 211 episodes and nine seasons until its conclusion on April 27, 2003. Created by John Masius and produced by Martha Williamson, the series stars Roma Downey, as an angel named Monica, and Della...
and Hang Time
Hang Time (TV series)
Hang Time is an American teen sitcom that aired from 1995–2000. The teen-oriented program aired on Saturday mornings on NBC as part of the network's TNBC morning block. It was created by Troy Searer, Robert Tarlow, and Mark Fink. Producer Peter Engel took over Fink's duties at the start of Season 2...
, she had a half dozen appearances in a recurring guest star role on Ally McBeal
Ally McBeal
Ally McBeal is an American legal comedy-drama series which aired on the Fox network from 1997 to 2002. The series was created by David E. Kelley, who also served as the executive producer, along with Bill D'Elia...
, where she acted out the role of choir
Choir
A choir, chorale or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform.A body of singers who perform together as a group is called a choir or chorus...
director Lisa Knowles.
In 2001, she sang America The Beautiful on the first WWE
World Wrestling Entertainment
World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. is an American publicly traded, privately controlled entertainment company dealing primarily in professional wrestling, with major revenue sources also coming from film, music, product licensing, and direct product sales...
pay-per-view to be held after the September 11 terrorist attacks.
On June 26, 2007, Holliday made a surprise appearance at the BET Awards
BET Awards
The BET Awards were established in 2001 by the Black Entertainment Television network to celebrate African Americans and other minorities in music, acting, sports, and other fields of entertainment over the past year. The awards are presented annually and broadcast live on BET...
, singing "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going
And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going
"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" is a torch song from the Broadway musical Dreamgirls, with lyrics by Tom Eyen and music by Henry Krieger...
" in a duet with Jennifer Hudson
Jennifer Hudson
Jennifer Kate Hudson is an American recording artist, actress and spokesperson. She came to prominence in 2004 as one of the finalists on the third season of American Idol coming in seventh place...
, who had played Effie White in the 2006 film adaptation of Dreamgirls
Dreamgirls (film)
Dreamgirls is a 2006 musical drama film, directed by Bill Condon and jointly produced and released by DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures. The film debuted in three special road show engagements beginning December 15, 2006 before its nationwide release on December 25, 2006...
, and won an Oscar for her performance. Holliday had not been offered a cameo
Cameo appearance
A cameo role or cameo appearance is a brief appearance of a known person in a work of the performing arts, such as plays, films, video games and television...
role in the film and, feeling snubbed, had repeatedly expressed displeasure with the movie in the media. (Another original Dreamgirls cast member, Loretta Devine
Loretta Devine
Loretta Devine is an American stage, film and television actress known for her roles on Boston Public, Grey's Anatomy, and Eli Stone. She also provided her voice for the stop motion animated television series The PJs. Devine is a NAACP Image Award and Emmy award winning actress.-Early life:Devine...
, did have a cameo in the film.)
More recently, it became possible to see Holliday in a YouTube
YouTube
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
video, singing a duet with Hudson. The two actresses-singers performed their live duet at a concert Hudson gave on April 16, 2009. The YouTube video had been viewed over 700,000 times as of late February of 2011.
On October 17, 2011 Holliday appeared on The Wendy Williams Show. Her self described "transparency" was appreciated by the audience and Wendy, who said she, "would give good talk," and she did. Holliday also performed a moving rendition of "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" at the end of the show. Her gripping performance brought the audience to their feet. Her style is all her own and her voice is as beautiful as ever. She gave the entire auidence autographed copies of her new CD, "God is Faithful." The chemistry between Wendy and Jennifer was clear to all, they were relaxed and spontaneous and the audience loved it. America needs to see Jennifer perform more, hopefully it will be on the Wendy show.
Personal life
Holliday has been married twice. In March 1991, just two months after she met keyboardist Billy Meadows in a nightclub where she was singing, they married. "He had a great sense of humor and he made me laugh all the time," Holliday says of her first husband. "I had been feeling bad for so long, I wanted to laugh." But in December 1991, just nine months later, they divorced; the marriage, according to Holliday, "ran out of steam." She explained of Meadows: "We just didn't know each other well enough."The second time around, she married a man much like her father. Her second marriage, which began on March 21, 1993 and ended in 1994, was to Rev. Andre Woods, a minister in Michigan. Jet
Jet (magazine)
Jet is an American weekly marketed toward African-American readers, founded in 1951 by John H. Johnson of Johnson Publishing Company in Chicago, Illinois...
magazine covered the marriage in one of its issues. Though Woods was a charismatic Detroit preacher, she subsequently said that even so, he was a player who also ran through her money. Still, Holliday was devastated when, in 1994, that marriage, too, ended, just four months after her mother died of cancer. "It was like experiencing two deaths at the same time," Jennifer remembered. "The grief was overwhelming." As of late February 2011, she was residing in Atlanta, Georgia.
Holliday received a Doctor of Music honoris causa from Berklee College of Music
Berklee College of Music
Berklee College of Music, located in Boston, Massachusetts, is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. Known primarily as a school for jazz, rock and popular music, it also offers college-level courses in a wide range of contemporary and historic styles, including hip...
, Boston in 2000. In 2001 she was presenter for the tap dance show "21 Below" at Town Hall in NYC and also headlined Equity Cares/Broadway Fights Aids' "Nothing Like a Dame" show at the St. James Theatre where she was accompanied by teenage tap dance sensation Michela Marino Lerman and Hannah Leah Dunn.
Albums
- 1983 Feel My SoulFeel My SoulFeel My Soul is the 1983 debut album of Jennifer Holliday, released on Geffen Records. The album was produced by Maurice White, founder and leader of the funk band Earth, Wind and Fire...
#31 U.S. Billboard 200Billboard 200The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...
, #6 U.S. Top R&B/Hip-Hop AlbumsTop R&B/Hip-Hop AlbumsTop R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The name of the chart was changed from Top R&B Albums in 1999... - 1985 Say You Love MeSay You Love Me (album)Say You Love Me is Jennifer Holliday's 1985 music album released on vinyl and cassette. It was released by Geffen Records. In 1985, two singles were released from the album. The singles were Hard Time For Lovers and No Frills Love...
#110 U.S., #34 U.S. R&B - 1987 Get Close to My LoveGet Close to My LoveGet Close to My Love is the third album by soul singer and stage star Jennifer Holliday, released in 1987. The album did not perform well, missing both the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and the Billboard 200, and its only single, "Heart on the Line," stalled at #48 on the Hot Soul Singles...
- 1991 I'm On Your SideI'm on Your SideI'm on Your Side is the fourth album by Jennifer Holliday, released in 1991. The song "I'm on Your Side", a cover version of an Angela Bofill hit, was released as a single, peaking at #10 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks. The second single, "Love Stories" peaked at #29 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop...
#184 U.S., #29 U.S. R&B - 1995 On & OnOn & On (Jennifer Holliday album)On & On is an album by Jennifer Holliday. The album was released in 1995 on Intersound Records.-Synopsis:On & On is the fifth album by Holliday and contains the notable singles "It Is Well With My Soul," "Let Jesus Love You," "To Teach Me," and the title track.- Track listing :* "Let Jesus Love...
#10 U.S. Top Gospel Albums - 1996 The Best of Jennifer Holliday #50 U.S.
- 2000 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Jennifer Holliday
- 2006 Duet with Najiyah - Through The Storm
- 2011 God is Faithul
Singles
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Album | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. R&B Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.The chart, initiated in 1942, is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African American, venues. Dominated over the years at various times by jazz, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, soul,... |
U.S. Hot 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday... |
U.S. Dance Hot Dance Club Play The Hot Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. dance clubs... |
UK UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ... |
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| 1982 | "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" is a torch song from the Broadway musical Dreamgirls, with lyrics by Tom Eyen and music by Henry Krieger... " |
1 | 22 | — | 32 | Dreamgirls |
| "I Am Changing" | 29 | — | — | — | ||
| 1983 | "I Am Love" | 2 | 49 | — | — | Feel My Soul Feel My Soul Feel My Soul is the 1983 debut album of Jennifer Holliday, released on Geffen Records. The album was produced by Maurice White, founder and leader of the funk band Earth, Wind and Fire... |
| "Just Let Me Wait" | 24 | — | — | — | ||
| 1985 | "Hard Time for Lovers" | 17 | 69 | 26 | — | Say You Love Me Say You Love Me (album) Say You Love Me is Jennifer Holliday's 1985 music album released on vinyl and cassette. It was released by Geffen Records. In 1985, two singles were released from the album. The singles were Hard Time For Lovers and No Frills Love... |
| "No Frills Love" | 29 | 87 | 1 | — | ||
| 1987 | "Heart on the Line" | 48 | — | — | — | Get Close to My Love |
| 1991 | "I'm on Your Side" | 10 | — | — | — | I'm on Your Side |
| "Love Stories" | 29 | — | — | — | ||
| 1996 | "No Frills Love" | — | — | 1 | — | The Best of Jennifer Holliday |
| 2000 | "A Woman's Got the Power" | — | — | 7 | — | Breaking Through |
| "Think It Over" | — | — | 1 | — | Divine Divas | |
| 2001 | "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" (Rosabel with Jennifer Holliday) | — | — | 6 | — | — |
| 2007 | "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" (Jennifer Holliday with Rosabel) | — | — | 10 | — | |
| "Givin' Up" | — | — | — | — | Why Did I Get Married? Why Did I Get Married? Why Did I Get Married? is a 2007 comedy-drama film adaptation written, produced, directed, and starring Tyler Perry, which was inspired by the play of the same name. The film stars Janet Jackson, Jill Scott, Malik Yoba, Sharon Leal, Tasha Smith, Michael Jai White, Richard T. Jones, and Keesha Sharp... soundtrack |
|
Awards and nominations
Awards- 1982 Theatre Awards Outstanding Broadway Debut – Dreamgirls
- 1982 Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical – Dreamgirls
- 1982 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical – Dreamgirls
- 1983 Grammy Award Best Female Performance, Rhythm & Blues – "And I Am Telling You I'm Not GoingAnd I Am Telling You I'm Not Going"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" is a torch song from the Broadway musical Dreamgirls, with lyrics by Tom Eyen and music by Henry Krieger...
" from Dreamgirls - 1985 Grammy Award for Best Inspirational Performance, Gospel – "Come Sunday"
Nominations
- 1981 Drama Desk Award or Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical – Your Arms Too Short to Box with GodYour Arms Too Short to Box with GodYour Arms Too Short to Box with God: A Soaring Celebration in Song and Dance is a Broadway musical based on the Biblical Book of Matthew, with music and lyrics by Alex Bradford and a book by Vinnette Carroll, who also directed...
- 1983 Grammy Award Best New Artist
See also
- List of number-one dance hits (United States)
- List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart
External links
- Jennifer's Official MySpace Page
- Performance of "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" from the 1982 Tony Awards
- Reference 1:Essence June 1999: Jennifer Holliday On Her 2 Failed Marriages
- Reference 2: Nov 1991 Ebony Magazine: Jennifer Holliday About Her Weight Loss
- Reference 3: USA Today February 22, 2007: Jennifer Holliday On the "Dreamgirls" Movie and Jennifer Hudson
- TonyAwards.com Interview with Jennifer Holiday
- The Official Net-Site Of Jennifer Holliday