Ashlee simpson 2004
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‘Autobiography’: Ashlee Simpson’s Raw Search For Her Identity
When Ashlee Simpson emerged in the early 2000s, it was at the height of the MTV reality show era. Her sister Jessica had previously become a household name thanks to Newlyweds, her show on the channel, and the younger Simpson sister soon had her own program on the network. The Ashlee Simpson Show had a stark difference to many other productions of its time, though – instead of focusing purely on the minutiae of the budding musician’s daily life, it followed her in the studio as she worked on her debut album, Autobiography.
It was that premise that convinced Simpson – who positioned herself as going against the grain of her mainstream pop peers at that moment – to allow cameras to follow her around at all. “I thought that was kind of cool – you’re actually seeing a deeper look into how this album got made,” she told Seventeen magazine at the time.
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Autobiography – and, by extension, The Ashlee Simpson Show – captured the
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Ashlee Nicole Simpson (born October 3, 1984 in Waco, Texas) is an American pop rock singer-songwriter and actress. Simpson, who is the younger sister of pop singer Jessica Simpson, rose to prominence in mid-2004 through the success of her number-one debut album Autobiography and the accompanying reality series The Ashlee Simpson Show. Simpson received widespread criticism when she used a pre-recorded vocal track on Saturday Night Live in October 2004. Following a North American concert tour and a film appearance, Simpson released a second number-one album, I Am Me, in October 2005. Her third album, Bittersweet World, was released in April 2008.
Her breakout came with her debut single, "Pieces of Me", which was released in 2004, became a top-five hit in the United States, and topped the Billboard Mainstream Top 40 chart based on radio airplay. The success of the single and her reality show helped propel her debut album, Autobiography, also released in 2004, to the top of the Billboard 200 albums chart. The project sold over five million copies worldwide, making it her
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Ashlee Simpson
Ashlee Simpson | |
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Simpson at the opening of Marquee nightclub at The Star in Sydney, Australia, April 2012 | |
| Birth name | Ashlee Nicole Simpson[1] |
| Also known as | Ashlee Simpson-Wentz |
| Born | (1984-10-03) October 3, 1984 (age 40) Waco, Texas, U.S. |
| Genres | Pop, pop rock |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, songwriter, actress, dancer |
| Years active | 2001–present |
| Labels | Geffen |
| Website | Official website |
Ashlee Simpson (born October 3, 1984) is an Americanpop rocksinger, songwriter, actress, and dancer. She is the younger sister of pop singer Jessica Simpson. Ashlee started dancing at the age of 4 and by the time she was 11 enjoyed the status of being the youngest person ever admitted to the prestigious School of American Ballet. In 1999, when she was 14 years old, she moved to Los Angeles with her family for her sister's career and instantly began her own career by working as a backup dancer for Jessica.
Ashlee's first album, Autobiography, was released in 2004. She also starred in her own reality seriesThe Ashlee Simpson Show.
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