Jennifer Hudson - A Change Is Gonna Come - AFI Life Achievement Award Hnoring Denzel Washington - 2019
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Jennifer Kate Hudson (born September 12, 1981), also known by her nickname J.Hud, is an American singer, actress, and philanthropist. Hudson rose to fame in 2004 as a finalist on the third season of American Idol, placing seventh. She made her film debut as Effie White in Dreamgirls (2006), for which she received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2020.
Hudson was born on September 12, 1981 in Chicago, Illinois.[6][7] She is the third and youngest child of Darnell Donerson (November 7, 1950 – October 24, 2008)[8] and Samuel Simpson[9] (died 1999).[10] She was raised as a Baptist[11] in Englewood[12] and attended Dunbar Vocational High School, from which she graduated in 1999.[13] She cites Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, and Patti LaBelle as her overall biggest influences and inspiration.[14] She has also credited Mariah Carey as being one of her musical "heroes." [15] At age 7 she got her start in performing by singing with the church choir and doing community theater with the help of her late maternal grandmother, Julia.[16] She enrolled at Langston University but she left after a semester due to homesickness and unhappiness with the weather, and registered at Kennedy–King College.[
Hudson was born on September 12, 1981 in Chicago, Illinois.[6][7] She is the third and youngest child of Darnell Donerson (November 7, 1950 – October 24, 2008)[8] and Samuel Simpson[9] (died 1999).[10] She was raised as a Baptist[11] in Englewood[12] and attended Dunbar Vocational High School, from which she graduated in 1999.[13] She cites Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, and Patti LaBelle as her overall biggest influences and inspiration.[14] She has also credited Mariah Carey as being one of her musical "heroes." [15] At age 7 she got her start in performing by singing with the church choir and doing community theater with the help of her late maternal grandmother, Julia.[16] She enrolled at Langston University but she left after a semester due to homesickness and unhappiness with the weather, and registered at Kennedy–King College.[