Ciara's Early life

During Ciara's childhood her father was in the military so she has lived in several countries, but claims Atlanta, Georgia as her hometown. She has said that it was seeing a televised performance by Destiny's Child that inspired her to pursue a career in music. In her early teens she formed the goal to become a professional singer. She joined a girl group called Hearsay, worked on her songwriting, eventually left the group, got a publishing deal, and found a "music soul mate" when she met producer Jazze Pha.

Ciara's Career

Ciara's debut single, "Goodies", became a hit, reaching the top of the United States pop charts, and also charting in the United Kingdom (in January 2005, also reaching number one), Australia, Germany, Sweden, and New Zealand. With help from Pha, Garrett, and Lil Jon, Ciara released her debut album, Goodies in September 2004. It entered the Billboard 200 chart at #3, and sold over two milion copies in the USA alone. The second single, "1, 2 Step", featuring Missy Elliott, reached the top five in the U.S., peaking at #2 in early 2005. The single was released in the U.K. on April 11 the same year, and reached #3, benefiting from the fact that it was the first week that downloads were incorporated into the singles chart. Ciara charted one place higher than she would have done if downloads had not been included in the chart formula; she would have instead swapped places with Elvis Presley's re-issue of "The Wonder of You" at #4.

In May 2005, Ciara's third single, "Oh" featuring Ludacris, reached #2 on the Hot 100 and #4 on the U.K. charts. In July of 2005 she released her DVD of all three of her music videos, the makings of two of them, commentaries of two of them, behind the scenes footage of her rehearsals for the Soul Train Awards, and multi-angle shots of Goodies, entitled Goodies: The Videos & More. Furthermore Ciara was featured on Missy Elliott's #3 hit "Lose Control", taken from her album the rapper's sixth album, The Cookbook. In the fall of 2005, she was featured singing alongside past love interest, Bow Wow, on the second single from his third album Wanted entitled Like You. The duet also reached a peak of #3. In the December of 2005 Ciara went on tour with Gwen Stefani's "Harajuku< Lovers Tour". In the meantime her fourth single, And I, was released and peaked at #96 which was relatively poor compared to the first three singles.

Ciara ended 2005 by going on tour with other teen pop sensations like Bow Wow and Chris Brown for the "Holladay Jam" which stopped at cities like New York and Atlanta. Ciara then performed at the Orange Bowl. The performance was one of the biggest of her career because of the high television and stadium audience.

Ciara particapted in a charity single written and produced by Michael Jackson. The single, entitled "I Have This Dream", and was to be released on February 13, 2006. Ciara was included in an ad campaign for Candies clothing and shoe line at Kohls, along with fellow pop star Hilary Duff, actress Michelle Trachtenberg, Samaire Armstrong in 2006.

On February 8, 2006 Ciara along with Missy Elliott won the Grammy for Best Short Form Music Video. It was Ciara's first Grammy award. She also performed a duet with Maroon 5's Adam Levine during the Grammy show in tribute to the legendary R&B musician Sly Stone, entitled Everyday People.

In March of 2006, Ciara ended her relationship with rapper Bow Wow.

She has finished making a MTV coming-of-age film entitled, All You've Got. The movie will premiere on MTV on May 20th. It will then be released on DVD and VHS May 23rd.

Ciara's second studio album, Ciara: The Evolution was released on December 5, 2006. Production included hitmakers such as, Jazze Pha, Rodney Jerkins, Pharrell, Bryan Michael Cox, Will.i.am and many others. The album is about Ciara's personal growth after two years in the public eye. She co-wrote and co-produced most of the songs. The official first single "Promise", produced by Atlanta producer Polow Da Don, became a Billboard top twenty single. In October 2006, Ciara went on a sixteen city club tour until December, which she previewed new music from the album. In the December 23 issue of Billboard magazine, Ciara: The Evolution debuted at number one selling over 338,000 copies, which is 213,000 more than Ciara’s debut album Goodies. The album has been certified platinum. The second single from Ciara: The Evolution, "Like a Boy", was released in early February.

Her favorite movies include Scarface, Godfather and Nutty Professor.

Ciara listed Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston and Madonna as her major influences.

Ciara made her debut in the summer of 2004 with the Billboard number-one single "Goodies".

Her mother's name is Lynn and her father's is Carlton Harris.

Ciara performed an LL Cool J song with Nelly at the 2nd Annual VH1 Hip-Hop Honnors.

Ciara was a big Destiny's Child fan, and once skipped school to watch them on Good Morning America.

Ciara stars in the MTV movie "All you Got" which came out on DVD on May 23, 2006.

In 2006 Ciara made a video with Field Mob called So What.

Ciara wanted to become a model before she was signed as a singer.

When younger Ciara never went out with friends, she stayed home to study for school, and practice her dance moves.

Ciara's height is 5' 7.5"

She was a cheerleader in high school.

Ciara was in a group called "Hear Say", but they left to do solo careers.

She graduated from Riverdale High in '03.

Ciara is signed to 4 record labels.

Ciara was engaged to Bow Wow--they broke up.

Ciara's third single, "Oh" featuring Ludacris, went on to become as big an American hit as her previous released, reaching #2 on the Hot 100.

Her second single, "1, 2 Step", featuring Missy Elliott, reached the top 10 in the US, peaking at #2 in early 2005.

Her album "Goodies" debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200 and sold over 1 milion copies in the United States alone.

Her debut album "Goodies" became a massive hit, reaching the top of the United States R&B and pop charts and also charting in Australia, Germany, Sweden, and New Zealand.

Ciara joined a girl group, worked on her songwriting, left the group, landed a publishing deal, and found a "music soul mate" when she met producer Jazze Pha.

As her father was in the United States Army, she lived in bases in Germany, New York, California, Arizona, and Nevada.

She won the 2005 BET Award for best collaboration for her the hit song "1, 2, Step" featuring Missy Elliot

Her favourite CD is All Eyez On Me by 2pac Shakur.