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The year after Idol, the casting agency for the movie version of the musical Dreamgirls came knocking. Listen to Mamamia's daily entertainment podcast, The Spill. “In any audition I walk in, before Idol and after Idol, regardless of what happens, I know I’m walking away with my gift and “I didn’t know how or when, but I knew there was going to be something huge,” she told the Sun-Times. That could have been the last anyone heard of Jennifer Hudson. Elton John declared the voting to be “incredibly racist”. She was controversially eliminated in seventh place, after ending up in the bottom three with Fantasia Barrino and La Toya London. But despite her powerhouse voice, she didn’t win Idol that year. “I remember sitting in the bathroom of my house at seven years old, crying and saying, ‘Nobody will listen to me, so I’ll listen to myself sing'.”īy the time she tried out for American Idol in 2004, singing an Aretha Franklin song, Jennifer had a job as a cruise ship singer. “I’d ask for solos in church and they’d give me the runaround,” she told the Chicago Sun-Times in From the age of seven, singing was all she wanted to do. Jennifer grew up in a churchgoing family in Chicago, one of three children born to bus driver Samuel Simpson and Darnell Donerson. She’s been able to forgive the man who killed her family and stay focused on her career, because she knows that’s what her mum and brother would have wanted. Those things that Jennifer has been through are the murders of her mum, brother and nephew, on one terrible day in 2008.