Biography
Jennifer Kate Hudson (born September 12, 1981) is an American recording artist, actress and spokesperson. She rose to fame in 2004 as a finalist on the third season of American Idol, coming in seventh place.

As an actress, she made her film debut portraying Effie White in Dreamgirls (2006), for which she gained worldwide acclaim and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, an NAACP Image Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. As a singer, Hudson won a Grammy Award for her debut album, Jennifer Hudson, released in 2008. The album was certified gold by the RIAA, with sales exceeding a million copies worldwide. Her second album, I Remember Me, was released 2011 and was certified gold by the RIAA.

In October 2008, after Hudson's mother, brother and nephew were killed in a shooting, Hudson stepped out of the public eye for three months. Hudson resumed her public appearances in 2009. Hudson has been described as a friend of President Barack Obama, who invited her to appear with him at a fundraiser in Beverly Hills in May 2009. She also performed at the White House at the "Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement" event. Hudson has sold 1,280,000 albums and 2,237,000 singles in the United States as of February 2012. In 2013, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Albums

Jennifer Hudson

1. Spotlight
2. If This Isn't Love
3. Pocketbook (featuring Ludacris)
4. Giving Myself
5. What's Wrong (Go Away) (featuring T-Pain)
6. My Heart
7. You Pulled Me Through
8. I'm His Only Woman (featuring Fantasia)
9. Can't Stop The Rain
10. We Gon' Fight
11. Invisible
12. And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going (Highlights Version)
13. Jesus Promised Me A Home Over There

JHUD

1. Walk It Out
2. I Can't Describe (The Way I Feel) (feat. T.I.)
3. Dangerous
4. He Ain't Goin' Nowhere
5. It's Your World" (feat. R.Kelly)
6. Moan