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Joanna Noëlle Blagden Levesque (born December 20, 1990), professionally known as JoJo, is an American pop and R&B singer-songwriter and actress who rose to fame in 2004 with her platinum-certified, self-titled debut album, which has reached number four on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart.

Her second album, The High Road, was released on October 17, 2006 and has reached number three on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart. JoJo has sold more than 12 million albums and singles worldwide. She has also begun a film career, starring in two 2006 Hollywood films, Aquamarine and RV. She's currently working on her third album, All I Want Is Everything, which will be released in 2009.

JoJo was born in Brattleboro, Vermont and raised in Keene, New Hampshire and Foxborough, Massachusetts. She has Scottish, Irish, English and Polish ancestry from her mother's side, and French Canadian, Irish, and Native American from her father's side.^{[citation needed]} She grew up in a one-bedroom apartment in Foxborough, in a low-income family. Her father, Joel Maurice Levesque, sings as a hobby, and her mother, Diana Levesque, sang in a Catholic church choir and was trained in musical theatre. Her parents divorced when she was three.

During her earlier years, JoJo would listen and learn as her mother practiced her hymns. She started singing when she was two years and 3 months old by imitating her mother, putting her own spin on everything from nursery rhymes to R&B, Jazz and Soul tunes. On the A&E's show Child Stars III: Teen Rockers, her mother claimed that JoJo had a borderline genius IQ. As a child, JoJo enjoyed attending Native American festivals and acted locally in professional theaters.^[1]

After auditioning for the television show Kids Say the Darndest Things: On the Road in Boston, JoJo was given a spot to perform on the show, singing Aretha Franklin's 1967 hit "Respect". Soon after, The Oprah Winfrey Show contacted her, inviting her to perform. She also performed on Maury, on one of the frequent "kids-with-talent" episodes, as well as many others.^[2] Reminiscing, she has stated that "when it came to performing, I just had no fear".

JoJo also frequently visits Foxborough, Massachusetts, where she was raised and still has family. JoJo, who has been home schooled for the past three years, has stated that "school was definitely a big part of my life". She performs well academically, receiving marks in the As and Bs.

JoJo dated American soccer player Freddy Adu from May 2005 until September 2006.^[16] A Washington Post article in November 2006 reported that the couple split after one year. JoJo mentioned on American Top 40 with Ryan Seacrest that she and Adu were still good friends.^[17]

On February 28, 2007, she was ranked at number ten in the list of Forbes top twenty earners under 25 with an annual earning of $1 million.

JoJo has been acting since she was four. She did local theater, some radio, and tv commercials in the New England area, and then national TV shows from age seven onwards. JoJo made her professional stage debut aged eight in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in the role of Mustardseed at the Huntington Theater. She received her first union card from the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (AFTRA) at age ten.

JoJo's second album, The High Road, was released on October 17, 2006. The album debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 behind Diddy's Press Play and Evanescence's The Open Door. It was produced by Scott Storch, Swizz Beatz, J. R. Rotem, Corey Williams, Soulshock & Karlin and Ryan Leslie. It has received mainly positive reviews.

On March 16, The Second JammX Kids All Star Dance Special broadcast a new song by JoJo entitled "Anything", which samples Toto's 1982 hit single, "Africa".^[6] In the summer of 2006, the lead single from her second album, "Too Little Too Late", was released to radio stations. The album's second official single, "How to Touch a Girl", experienced less success. It charted just outside the Billboard Hot 100 and peaked at number seventy-six on the Billboard Pop 100.