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Additional Information about Oprah's Popstar Challenge (CD, Mar-2004, Sony Music Distribution (USA))
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Album Features
UPC: 827969233023
Format: CD
Release Year: 2004
Record Label: Sony Music Distribution (USA)
Genre: Pop Vocal


Track Listing
1. At Last - Lee McGinnis
2. Your Song - Kenneth Hicks/Joe Herzog/Kenny Hicks
3. Nobody's Supposed to Be Here - Jackie Perkins
4. All in Love Is Fair - Lorenzo Owens
5. Where Do Broken Hearts Go - LaShell Griffin
6. Son of a Preacher Man - Annagrey LaBasse
7. Have You Ever Been in Love - Theresa Ruppert
8. I Believe in You and Me - LaNesha Baca
9. Greatest Love of All, The - LaShell Griffin
10. When You Believe - LaNesha Baca (from "The Prince Of Egypt")
11. Song for You, A - Lorenzo Owens
12. One Momnent in Time - LaShell Griffin
13. Stand - Annagrey LaBasse/LaShell Griffin/LaNesha Baca/Lorenzo Owens/2004 Cast
14. Free - LaShell Griffin

Details
Producer: Steve "Silk" Hurley, Craig Bauer
Distributor: Sony Music Distribution (
Recording Type: Studio
Recording Mode: Stereo
SPAR Code: n/a

Album Notes
Personnel: Gerey Johnson (guitar); Kenny Hicks (tenor saxophone); Kurt Clayton (Fender Rhodes piano); Franne Golde (keyboards); Paul Fox (drum programming); Sarah Martin, Talley Sherwood (background vocals).Audio Mixers: Craig Bauer; David Rideau; Peter Wade; Steve "Silk" Hurley.Liner Note Authors: Annagrey LaBasse; LaShell Griffin; LaNesha Baca.Photographer: Josh Rothstein.Arranger: Steve "Silk" Hurley.Taking a cue from the pop-culture sensation AMERICAN IDOL, Oprah Winfrey decided to host her own competition. However, rather than fill up the ranks of her contest with fresh-faced youngsters, this queen of daytime television instead chose a slightly older group, most of them married with families and day jobs. Among the eight semi-finalists that make up the talent on this collection are bartender Jackie Perkins (pouring herself into the Deborah Cox slow jam "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here"), Lorenzo Owens (a soaring take on Leon Russell's "A Song for You"), and Joe Herzog (a boisterous rendition of Elton John's "Your Song").LaShell Griffin proved to be the grand-prize winner by strutting her considerable talent. Griffin impresses by channeling Whitney Houston on a trio of songs ("Where Do Broken Hearts Go," "The Greatest Love of All," and "One Moment in Time") along with "Free," a gospel-tinged, inspirational number penned specifically for this Detroit native. With POP STAR CHALLENGE, Winfrey once again succeeds in melding a winning concept into something appealing for her audience.