Jennifer Paige

Jennifer Paige (born September 3 1973) is an American singer-songwriter, who rose to stardom in the early years of teen-pop spree and is probably best remembered for her 1998 smash pop-hit Crush.

Biography
Jennifer Paige was born into a musical family in Marietta, Georgia, just outside Atlanta. She began singing at the age of five at local coffeehouses and restaurants with her older brother Chance Scoggins. She continued to Pebblebrook Highschool to study dance, voice and performing arts.

At the age 17 she relocated to Los Angeles and toured the country with a top 40 covers act Joe's Band. In August 1996, she performed in front of 50,000 people at the Olympic Games in her hometown Atlanta. The same year Paige teamed up with producer Andy Goldmark, known for his ability to create hits and develop new, rising stars. They began with a rebirth to Aretha Franklin's classic Chain of Fools with a dance version. The record instantly came to the attention of the German indie label Edel Records, whose President Jonathan First was searching for a fresh-faced pop act to establish overseas presence. He was so impressed by Paige's effort that he flew to Los Angeles and gave her a record contract.

Crush
In 1998, Goldmark and Paige finished Crush, inspired by Jennifer's experiments in lovelife. It became a local hit in the Los Angeles area and another record deal with Hollywood Records was followed by a worldwide success. "Crush" climbed to #3 at the Billboard Singles Chart and #4 in the United Kingdom and went to #1 in New Zealand. In August that year, "Crush" was certified gold for sales of 500,000 copies.

Debut album (Jennifer Paige)
Her debut album Jennifer Paige was released in August of 1998 and consisted of guitar-driven mid-tempo songs such as Questions, Between You and Me, Get to Me and Just to Have You. Critics took notice of her voice and Billborad declared that "Paige succeeds in the nearly impossible task of oozing smouldering sensuality without resorting to typical groans and moans, instead, she uses her notably flexible vocal range to convey the emotion of the tune...As a result, she breathes a refreshing intensity into the song". Jennifer Paige was less of a commercial success, but reached good entries in some countries and indicated a burgeoning talent.

The album was followed by two other singles, Sober and Always You. Always You reached #6 at the Billboard Dance Chart, but these singles did not make any impact on radio, nor did they on the pop charts.

In the summer of 2000, Jennifer Paige recorded a new tune Beautiful on the soundtrack to the Richard Gere/Winona Ryder movie "Autumn in New York".

Positively Somewhere
During her few years off from the studio Jennifer Paige toured, sang for the pope at the Vatican, did a gig in the World Music Awards and promoted her music. It took over three years from Jennifer Paige to come back with a new record, which in a world of pop, is a very long time. Her second album Positively Somewhere was premiered by a cover of the Bardot single "These Days" and the album was released in September of 2001 in United States. It wasn't noticed until its European and Asian release in Summer of 2002 due to a lack of promotion by her American label.

The European release launched a modest hit, a cover of Plumb's "Stranded". Although the single Edel dropped never topped the sales-charts, it made an instant impact to the radios in countries such as Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and Scandinavia. Positively Somewhere cracked Top 10 in Japan and both singles became solid radiohits all over Asia.

Due to the poor sales the labels refused to release further singles. Positively Somewhere altered Jennifer Paige's image into an even more sophisticated direction.

Flowers: The Jennifer Paige Hits Collection
In 2003 Edel released Flowers: The Jennifer Paige Hits Collection. A Hits Collection after only two records made it obvious that she had parted ways with her record labels and in October Paige admitted she was no longer with either Hollywood Records or Edel Records.

Since then, Paige has been working on her next record writing and recording with some of the top artists in NY, CA and Nashville.

Best Kept Secret, her next album
In April 2006 Jennifer Paige's song "The Calling" was chosen by Lifetime Television for their movie, "Augusta, Gone".

In Summer 2006, she has started her recording work in Ibiza, Spain, which might result in a new album in Autumn 2006.

Albums

 * Jennifer Paige (1998)
 * Positively Somewhere (2001)
 * ''Flowers The Hits Collection (2003)
 * ''Best Kept Secret (2006) - Coming soon

Singles

 * "Chain of Fools" (1997)
 * "Crush" (1998) — #1 Australia, #1 New Zealand, #4 UK
 * "Sober" (1999) — #68 UK, #50 New Zealand
 * "Always You" (1999)
 * "Beautiful" Autumn in New York Soundtrack (2000)
 * "These Days" (2001)
 * "Stranded" (2002)

Music videos

 * Crush
 * Sober
 * Always You
 * Stranded