A singer. A songwriter. A prodigy. With just a few notes, she’s made some of the most influential men and women in America stop in their tracks to find her, and meet her.

She possesses a rare talent that has enchanted talk show hosts, celebrities and audiences throughout the United States. And she’s determined to take the music world by storm.

In the outskirts of Boston, Massachusetts JoJo grew up in a home filled with song. Her mother, a church soloist and trained musical theater performer, would practice hymns and arias alike while a young JoJo watched, listened and learned.

She imitated her mother’s incredible range as well as the sounds that breezed through the family’s home stereo: Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston and Etta James.

When I was two years old, I would sing nursery rhymes. I would do riffs on them and make them jazzy,” JoJo remembers.

It was at this early age that she taught herself to interpret the pop and blues tunes she heard with her own distinctive and unique style.

Eager to perform in venues other than her living room, JoJo searched for her first big break. She found it in a small newspaper clipping that advertised an audition for CBS-TV’s Kids Say the Darndest Things On The Road In Boston.

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