Jazmine Sullivan

Jazmine was a Philadelphia native is a native of Philadelphia, and was raised in the city. Pam is Jazmine's mom, and is an ex-backing singer for Philadelphia International Records. Her father invited her to take on an opportunity to be the curator of the Historic Strawberry Mansion. She and her family then moved into the landmark. In 2005, she graduated from the Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts with a major in vocal music. Sullivan began singing in the school's chorus in the contralto position, before joining the adult chorus a couple of years after that. Sullivan was not introduced to secular music at first. "When I turned 11 years old, I was approached by someone asking to enroll me on the gospel recording. I didn't want to do that," she says. "Then when McDonald's had a competition for kids in major cities I had the opportunity to sing 'Accept What God Gives' on Showtime on the Apollo and the audience were very supportive". At the age 13 she performed along with Stevie Wonder for his grandson's birthday. Sullivan signed her first contract with Jive Records when she was fifteen. There, she recorded an entire album. However, the album never came out. Sullivan was then dropped from the label. Her work had been in good relationship along with Missy Elliott. Elliott produced some of her tracks which included "Backstabbers" and "Backstabbers," which was produced by Timbaland.