JoJo

Growing up in Foxborough, Massachusetts, R&B-pop singer JoJo (born Joanna Noelle Blagden Levesque in Brattleboro, Vermont) listened and learned as her mother practiced hymns. She started singing by imitating her mother, but quickly put her own spin on everything from nursery rhymes to pop tunes. An ad in the paper announcing open auditions for the television show Kids Say the Darndest Things: On the Road in Boston led to the young singer wowing the audience along with the show's host, Bill Cosby, and eventually led to a phone call from Oprah Winfrey offering JoJo a spot on her...