Fantasia - Fantasia

Fantasia (Barrino) released her self-entitled second album in 2006. It found that the third American Idol winner progressing with her music as she goes from the typical Soul material, more towards the more contemporary R&B field here as she dropped this sophomore record which was aimed towards a more diverse audience. 1. "Hood Boy" The album start with what I saw as the best single from the singer up to that point as she came with this as the first single of the album as she shows that she is capable of much more than what her first record offered with this one getting her doing things in the style that was seen on Destiny's Child's ...  Read the complete review

**Introduction** Fantasia Barrino is yet another success story in the history of American Idol. The North Carolina native made a name for herself during the Third season of the show back in 2004. You may not have known this but she comes from quite a musical family with her cousins Cedric and Joel Hailey of KCI & JoJo and Jodeci fame and also distant cousin of Dave Hollister of Blackstreet fame and solo singer Calvin Richardson. Fantasia had a tough life as a teenager and whilst a student at Andrews High School in High Point she was raped by a classmate and her life took on another challenge when she got pregnant at sixteen (not related) she raised the ...  Read the complete review