She’s won “American Idol,” survived a damaged vocal cord and now she’s co-headlining a tour. Is there anything Jordin Sparks can’t do?
“This is my third tour now and I feel that every time there’s the first show, it’s like ‘I don’t know if I can do this,’” she said in a new interview for Access Hollywood and “The Billy Bush Show.”
But nerves or not, she told Access that hitting the road with Jesse McCartney has been a “lot of fun” so far.
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“I didn’t realize that Jesse fans were my fans and my fans are Jesse fans,” she said. “So [at a show] there were a lot of signs that… had Jesse and you flipped them over and [had] me. The reaction was really, really cool.”
And Jordin’s hour-long set has given her more room to shine than when she shared the stage with nine “Idol” contestants on the “American Idols Live” tour.
“Being the winner, you go last and you wait,” she said. “[Now], there are a few new songs that I put in there that I haven’t sang in front of anybody before.”
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Among the new songs are covers of Tracy Chapman’s “Give Me One Reason,” Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition,” and two that Jordin wants to keeps a surprise.
“One of them is a slow song and another is a really fast one that I’m sure basically every girl probably knows,” she said.
Jordin’s happy to be singing at all after a vocal injury almost cut her career short.
“I actually hemorrhaged my vocal chord if you can imagine that,” she said. “It was really a scary point in my life because singing is what I love to do and I don’t know what I would do without it.”
She went on “strict vocal rest,” which wasn’t easy for the chatty young “Idol.”
“I love to talk,” she admitted.
Sparks says she’s grateful for the recovery, which took three weeks – causing her to miss the first week of another tour — opening for Alicia Keys.
“I am just trying to soak up each day that I have to do this and each night that I get to perform,” she said.
But being the “Idol” winner does have its perks, like going to this year’s Teen Choice Awards, where she was nominated in three categories.
“I was sitting with people that I was like, ‘Oh my gosh I watch her show, I listen to his music! This is crazy,’” she said. “Sometimes being in this industry I’m surrounded by adults all the time so I’m just kind of like, ‘Wow, I feel really old right now!’ No offense, but some days I’m like, ‘Ewww, I’m a teenager.’”
She won the award for Choice Hook-Up for her duet with Chris Brown on “No Air,” calling the singer, who was her first choice for the track, “perfect.” But as for Brown’s own possible hook-up with Rihanna, Jordin said not to trust the tabloids.
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