User:Cat Jamison

Catalina Lucia Jamison (born February 7, 1997), known professionally as Cat Jamison, is an American singer-songwriter, actress, voice actor, dancer, and model. Jamison made her acting debut in 2008, playing the role of Kendra Quaker in 13 on Broadway. Jamison's current manager, Scooter Braun, first discovered her through her Youtube videos in 2010, was impressed with the videos and contacted Jamison's mother about wanting to work with her. Braun arranged for Jamison to meet with Justin Bieber, a Canadian recording artist whom is also managed by Braun, in Atlanta, Georgia. She was soon signed to RBMG, School Boy Records, Republic Records, Def Jam Recordings, and then to an Island Records recording contract offered by record executive, L.A Reid.

Jamison released her debut EP, Distracted (2011) in November 2011. It was certified diamond in the United States in November 2013 and she became the first artist to have all seven songs from a debut album to chart on the Billboard Hot 100. Distracted debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 200 albums chart, becoming the first female artist to have her first album debut atop of the charts since Kesha with Animal (2010) in January 2010, and the fifteenth female artist overall. The album was proceeded by the single "Rolling In The Deep". It was released in July 2011 and by October 2013, "Rolling In The Deep" had sold over 7,600,000 copies in the United States, making it the highest selling digital song by a female artist in the US. Jamison released her first full-length album, How To Love (2012), in September 2012. It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 albums chart and was certified 4x platinum in the United States. The album was preceded by the hit singles "Titanium", "Part Of Me", "Firework", "Wide Awake", and "Airplanes", which all debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. The album became the first by a female artist to produce five number-one Billboard Hot 100 songs, and the second overall since Michael Jackson's Bad (1987). She followed up the release of her album with her first headlining and world-wide tour, the Airplanes Tour. Jamison released her third studio album Space Bound (2014) in January 2014. It became her third chart topper, debuting at number one in thirty countries. The lead single 'Radioactive" peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, was certified 7x platinum, and holds the record for most weeks spent in the Billboard Hot 100 with 87 weeks. The second single "Love The Way You Lie" was certified 11x platinum. Overall, Space Bound was an international success and was certified diamond in August 2014, making it the quickest selling album of all time and made Jamison the only artist to have two albums certified diamond. In September 2014, she was signed to Capital Records and closed her deal with Island Records.

Jamison has received many industry awards, including many Artist of the Year awards at several different award shows. She won album of the year at the 54th Grammy Awards for How To Love (2013), and again at the 55th Grammy Awards for Space Bound (2014). Jamison has been included in the Forbes list of "Top-Earning Woman In Music" for 2013 and 2014 and was also named by Billboard magazine as "the most mind blowing and outstanding celebrity in the world" in 2014. In August 2011, Jamison broke the record for the youngest artist to debut in the top 25 with a debut song on the Billboard Hot 100 with "Rolling In The Deep", debuting at number one for seven weeks at 13 years, 11 months, and 17 days of age. Jamison voiced the Once-ler in the 2012 animated film The Lorax and Mavis in the 2012 animated film Hotel Transylvania and also landed the role of Charlie Dalton in the 2012 film Dead Poets Society alongside Robin Williams in which Jamison won Best Actress In A Drama at the 85th Emmy Awards and the BAFTA Awards. She also played Lily in the 2013 film 8 Mile alongside Eminem, Mekhi Phifer, Brittany Murphy, Michael Shannon, and Kim Basinger, which won her Best Supporting Actress at the 86th Emmy Awards. The following July, she released a documentary film, Cat Jamison: Part Of Me, which concentrated on her life as a young artist and the struggles she went through while on the first part of her world-wide tour, the Space Bound Tour.

In addition to her solo work, Jamison has collaborated with numerous other artists, being featured on the worldwide hits "Lights" (with Ellie Goulding), "Run This Town" (with Jay-Z and Kanye West), "Empire State Of Mind" (with Jay-Z), "Mirror" (with Lil Wayne), "As Long As You Love Me" (with Justin Bieber), and "Bang Bang" (with Jessie J and Nicki Minaj). She has also written numerous Hot 100 songs including "Diamonds" (by Rhianna), "Roar" (by Katy Perry), "Wrecking Ball" (by Miley Cyrus), "3005" (by Childish Gambino), "Can't Remember To Forget You" (by Shakira ft. Rhianna), "Heavy Love" (by Serena Ryder), "Happy" (by Pharrel Williams), and "Sing" (by Ed Sheeren).

Life and Career

1997-2010: Early Life

Jamison was born on February 7, 1997, in Miami, Florida, at the Mount Sinai Medical Center, and was the fourth child of Derek Brooks and Rose Jamison. Jamison has three older brothers, Beau Brooks (born July 31, 1993) and twins Luke and Jai Brooks (born May 3, 1995). Her mother lived in Australia with her brothers where she studied to be a Marine Biologist, where as Jamison lived in Miami, Florida with her father who worked as an Accountant. However, Jamison's parents filed for a divorce in August 2004. Her parents both shared custody of their children until Jamison's father was arrested in March 2014, and lost custody of his kids. Her mother is of Spanish and Australian descent; her paternal great grandfather was of German ancestry, and her other roots are English, Italian, and French.

Jamison began dancing at the age of two at Reign Dance Productions of Miami and at age six she joined Millenium Dance Complex. Jamison was accepted to North Broward Prepatory School of Miami at age seven, where she began taking singing and acting lessons and learned to play the piano and flute at age eight and guitar and drums at eleven. After Jamison's parents filed for a divorce in 2004, Jamison's mother married Kurt Young, in early 2006. Jamisons mother suffered a miscarriage with Youngs child sometime between August 2009 and December 2009, in which Jamison went through a episode of depression and was put in therapy for 4 months. Jamison's mother and Young then went on to have a child, Connor Young (born January 18, 2011). In 2008, Jamison played the role of Kendra Quaker in the musical 13 on Broadway, for which she won a National Youth Theatre Association Award. When she joined the musical, she left her school, but continued to be enrolled. The school sent materials to her so could study with tutors. She also starred as Snow White on broadway in the Pasadena Playhouse dance production, A Snow White Christmas, in February 2009. In April of 2009, Jamison landed he first televised role, playing the role of 'Young Deb' on the Lifetime series Drop Dead Diva. Jane, a lawyer, would represent her mother, Bobbie, a dance school director, as she is being sued by the family of a young dancer. The case would remind Deb of her former dance career with flashbacks of a young Deb dancing, portrayed by Jamison. In early 2009, aged 11, Jamison posted a video on Youtube of her singing an acoustic version of Blackstreet's "No Diggity". She continued to upload videos of her singing covers of various R&B songs, and Jamison's popularity on the site grew.

2010-11: Career beginnings and Distracted

While searching for videos of a different singer, Tyler The Creator, a rapper and producer, and Scooter Braun, a former executive of So So Def and manager of Canadian recording artist, Justin Bieber, clicked on one of Jamison's videos by accident. Impressed, Braun tracked down the church that Jamison was performing in, located Jamison's school, and finally contacted Rose. At 12, Jamison went to Atlanta, Georgia, with Braun and Bieber to record demo tapes. Jamison was soon signed to School Boy Records, Republic Records, and Def Jam Recordings. Jamison was also signed to Raymond Braun Media Group (RBMG), a joint venture between Braun and American recording artist, Usher. Justin Timberlake and Katy Perry were reportedly in the running to sign Jamison, but lost the bidding war to Usher. Braun became Jamison's manager in 2011.

Jamison's first single "Rolling In The Deep", was released to radio when Jamison was still recording her debut album. "Rolling In The Deep" was acclaimed by music critics and represented a commercial breakthrough for Jamison, propelling her to international success. The song reached number one in eleven countries and number two and three in many more regions, making her the youngest artist to have their debut single reach number one and the top 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 at 13 years, 11 months, and 17 days of age. It was Jamison's first number one song, reaching the top spot on many Billboard charts, including the Billboard Hot 100 where it was number one for seven weeks. By October 2013, "Rolling In The Deep" had sold over 7,600,000 copies in the United States and was certified 8x platinum, making it the highest selling digital song by a female artist in the US. The second single "Listen", was also an international success, appearing on charts worldwide, including top twenty in the United Kingdom and New Zealand, and top 10 in Australia, Canada, Ireland, and the United States. The third single "Wings", topped the Billboard charts with sales of 105,000 copies in it's first week. The song also reached number one in Ireland, Scotland, and number three in Australia, and was certified 2x platinum by the RIAA. It charted in the top 30 in three other countries, peaking at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100. Distracted was released on November 11, 2011 and was eventually certified diamond in the US on November 13, 2013. She also became the first female artist to have her first album debut atop the charts since Kesha with Animal in January 2010, and the fifteenth female artist overall. To promote the album, Jamison performed on several live shows such as mtvU's VMA 2011 Tour, The Today Show, The Wendy Williams Show, Lopez Tonight, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, It's on with Alex Chung, Good Morning America, Chelsea Lately, and BET'S 106 & Park with Rhianna. Jamison also guest starred in an episode of Criminal Minds in late 2011.

Jamison performed at many award shows such as the MTV Video Music Awards, American Music Awards, Teen Choice Awards, Billboard Music Awards, as well as the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards where she won five Grammy's including Best New Artist, Song of the Year, Best Female Pop Vocal performance, Record of the Year, and Best Short Form Music Video. Her performance of "Rolling In The Deep" at the Grammy's was also named "Performance of the Century" by Forbes magazine. Jamison performed Stevie Wonder's "Someday at Christmas" for U.S. President Barack Obama and his first lady Michelle Obama at the White House for Christmas in Washington, which was broadcasted on December 6, 2011, on US television broadcaster TNT. Jamison was also one of the performers at Dick Clarke's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest on December 31, 2011. She was invited to be a vocalist for the remake of "We Are The World" (a song written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie) for it's 25th anniversary to benefit Haiti after the earthquake.

2012-13: How To Love

After serving as a guest star on an episode of Grey's Anatomy, Jamison released "Titanium" in February 2012. The song was the lead single from her first full-length studio album, How To Love, reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, and was certified 5x platinum. Jamison released the album's second single, "Part Of Me", in April. "Part Of Me" reached number one on Billboard in May. Released on July 12, 2012, the album debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. It received mixed to positive reviews from critics, and has since sold 5.7 million copies globally. In June, "Firework" was released as the albums third single. It became the albums third consecutive number-one on the Hot 100 on July 6, 2012. The song has since been certified 9x platinum in the United States. "Wide Awake" was released as the fourth single from How To Love on September 3, 2012. It topped the Hot 100 chart for five non-consecutive weeks, making How To Love the ninth album in history to produce four number one singles on the Hot 100. "Airplanes" featuring American hip-hop recording artist B.o.B, followed as the fifth single in November, and Jamison became the first female artist to achieve five number-one Hot 100 songs from one album when the single topped that chart on December 26, and the second artist after Michael Jackson with his 1987 album Bad. In April 2013, she set a new record by becoming the first artist to spend 69 weeks consecutive weeks in the top ten of the Hot 100. On April 3, she was named the 7th best selling digital artist in the United States, with sales of 34.5 million units according to Nielson SoundScan. That month, she became the first artist to have five songs sell over 5 million digital units.

From September 11, 2012, to May 3, 2013, Jamison embarked on the Airplanes Tour in support for How To Love, grossing over $51 million globally. On January 5, 2013, she performed on the opening day of the 2013 Rock In Rio festival along with Elton John, Katy Perry, and Rhianna.

Personal Life

Religion and Relationships

Jamison identifies herself as a Christian, and has said she has a relationship with Jesus, that she talks to him and says that "he's that reason I'm here". Regarding sexual abstinence, Jamison told Rolling Stone in 2014: "I don't think you should have sex with anyone unless you love them.", but added "I've made that mistake before". She says that she does not believe in abortion and has stated "If abortion isn't murder, then why is it considered a double homocide to kill a pregnant woman?". She is a supporter of LGBT society and has contributed to the It Gets Better Project, which aims to prevent suicide among LGBT youth. She dedicated her music video for "Firework" to the project.

Jamison was in a relationship with Matthew Macneil, a boy who went to her school, whom she started dating when she was just 10 years old. The couple broke up in 2010 after three years of dating because of Jamison's rise to fame. A November 2010 media report indicated that Jamison was dating Jaden Smith. Months later, in February 2011, Jamison was caught making out with Smith at her manager, Scooter Brauns, wedding. Jamison confirmed the next month that they weren't dating but they both knew that they had feelings towards each other. On July 4, 2011, Jamison confirmed that she was dating singer Austin Mahone after reports had been circulating of May that year. In December of 2011, it was reported that Mahone and Jamison had ended their relationship. On February 8, 2012, Jamison was photographed kissing Mahone and confirmed that they were back together, but split for a second time three months later. In November 2012, Jamison began dating member of Emblem3, Keaton Stromberg. It was reported that Jamison and Stromberg ended there relationship in October 2013 due to claims that Jamison was also dating One Directions Niall Horan. Jamison and Horan denied the rumors saying "we hung out once.". Jamison began dating member of British boy band Union J, George Shelly, in December 2013. They broke up in February 2014 when Jamison caught him kissing Neon Jungle singer, Asami Zdrenka. Jamison's brothers Beau, Luke and Jai Brooks, got into a physical fight with Shelly shorty after the incident occurred and were charged with assault. Jamison began dating