[Musicians] Christina Judith Perri

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• Musician Name: Christina Judith Perri
• Birthday / Location: August 19, 1986 (age 35) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
• Main instrument: Pop music, Pop rock, Adult contemporary, Folk music
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• Other Information: Christina Perri (Philadelphia, August 19, 1986) is an American singer and songwriter. Her song "Jar of Hearts" rose to prominence in the United States after she appeared on Fox's So You Think You Can Dance television show in 2010, but it was her song "A Thousand Years" that gained worldwide success.
• Perri moved to Los Angeles, California on her 21st birthday. Later that year, she got married and started producing music videos. She divorced after 18 months and moved back to Philadelphia in late 2009; it was during this time that she wrote "Jar of Hearts". She returned to Los Angeles, becoming a waitress at the Melrose Cafe, where she met a friend who introduced her to a choreographer. He liked the song "Jar of Hearts" so much that he asked if Christina would like to record a professional version of the song.
• The song "Jar of Hearts" was featured on So You Think You Can Dance on June 30, 2010. Its first single, "Jar of Hearts", sold 48,000 digital copies, and debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 63 and on the Billboard Hot Digital Songs at number 28. Within a month, it sold over 100,000 copies. Then the music video for the song topped the Top 20 VH1 and over 100 million views on Youtube.
• Shortly afterward, Perri made her prime-time television debut, performing the song live on July 10, 2010, on The Early Show on CBS, and also on July 15, 2010, on So You Think You Can Dance. Christina Perri was signed to Atlantic Records on July 21, 2010. Perri also appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on July 29, 2010.
• Perri then released an EP called The Ocean Way Sessions, released on November 9, 2010.
• The big turning point in Perri's life was with the song "A Thousand Years", released in 2011, and was part of the movie Breaking Dawn, from the Twilight Saga. The singer claimed to be a staunch fan of the saga. The music video for the song was released on October 26, 2011, on Youtube, with over 1.5 billion views. Before, he had already released his first studio album called Lovestrong, on May 10, 2011, with another hit of his own, "Jar of Hearts", with more than 245 million views on Youtube, in addition to the song "Arms", with over 46 million views.In 2013, Perri began regularly Tweetying and posting images on Instagram about the progress of the second studio album using the hashtag "#albumtwo". In February, Perri shared with charity organization To Write Love On Her Arms about a third tour to raise money for the charity and release a new song from her second studio album, titled "I Believe", at shows. On June 21, Perri tweeted announcing that the second studio album would be out soon.
• On November 11, 2013, Perri announced that the first single from the new album would be called "Human", which has over 104 million views on Youtube. The song was released on November 18, 2013 on iTunes and Perri performed the song on The Queen Latifah Show on the same day. On November 28, 2013, Perri revealed that her second studio album would be titled Head or Heart and would be released on March 31, 2014, later being pushed back to April 1, 2014. On May 29, she announced that she would perform the opening of Demi Lovato's new North American World Tour. Perri announced that her second world concert tour would be called the Head or Heart Tour, starting in April 2014.