Jessica Ann Simpson (born July 10, 1980)
is an American pop singer and actress who rose to fame in the late
1990s. She has achieved seven Billboard Top 40 hits, and has three gold
and two multi-platinum RIAA-certified albums. Simpson starred with her
then-husband Nick Lachey in the MTV reality show Newlyweds: Nick and
Jessica. She has also begun working as an actress, and is the older
sister of Ashlee Simpson, an internationally successful pop rock singer
and actress.
In 2006, Simpson then returned to the recording studio, switching labels from
Columbia to Epic Records. Her fourth album, A Public Affair, was released on August 29, 2006
via Epic Records. The album debuted at on the Billboard 200 with
101,000 copies sold in its first week. The first single, "A Public
Affair" (2006), reached the Top 20 of the Hot 100 but quickly fell off
the charts. The music video for "A Public Affair" featured Eva
Longoria, Christina Applegate, Christina Milian, Maria Menounos, Andy
Dick and Ryan Seacrest. A second single, "I Belong To Me," was also
released through her website and is now included on the CD itself. The
single's video appeared on TRL countdowns, but quickly fell off.
In December 2006, while performing a tribute to Dolly Parton at the
Kennedy Center Awards, she botched the lyrics, getting flustered in
front of a crowd that included prominent persons such as Steven
Spielberg, Shania Twain, and President George W. Bush. Though Simpson
was given the chance to redo the song for cameras, her portion was
edited out of the CBS broadcast.
In September 2007, Simpson's father Joe Simpson stated to People magazine on September 11, 2007,
that Simpson was considering doing a country album. Joe Simpson told
People that she is "talking about doing a country record and going back
to her roots, being from
Texas."
The video for the first single, "Come On Over", premiered on Simpson's
official website in July 2008. The country album, entitled Do You Know,
is scheduled for a September 9, 2008, release. The album fully leaked onto the internet on August 28, 2008. |
