Jordin Sparks

By the age of eighteen months, Jordin Sparks already liked to sing. As a teenager, she was belting out show tunes in live theater and soon after began winning almost every singing contest she entered. By the time Sparks tried out for a chance on American Idol, she was a veteran. Find out what happened when she first tried out for the show—and how it eventually led her all the way to the Final 10 of 2007. Learn what she was thinking as she and Blake Lewis waited to see who would walk away with the Idol crown. This is the story of a young girl with high hopes and an unending supply of talent and determination.