Award-winning singer and actress Jennifer Hudson is among the confirmed participants for the next Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival, scheduled for January 24-30, 2010, in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Hudson came to prominence in 2004 as one of the finalists on the third season of the Fox reality television series American Idol. She made her film debut in the 2006 film Dreamgirls and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance, as well as a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, among many others. She won a Grammy Award for her eponymous debut album, Jennifer Hudson, which was released in 2008 on Arista Records and soon certified gold by the RIAA for more than 500,000 shipped copies, spawning the hit single “Spotlight.”
Also on the bill, said Elmore, will be Billy Ocean, Joe Roy Jackson, Kelly Price, Tamia, Deborah Cox, Hall and Oats, Jon Secada, Monty Alexander, Roy Ayers, Third World, and the Max Klezmer Band, a polish Jazz band. Several others are still to be confirmed.
The festival, which since its introduction in 1996 was known as the Air Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival, has attracted thousands of patrons from the USA, Europe, the Caribbean and Jamaica. This year the festival is again being presented by key title sponsor, the Jamaica Tourist Board.
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