Fantasia is getting a “reality” check.
Again.
R&B star Fantasia Monique Barrino, the winner of season three of “American Idol,” is preparing to star in another reality program in early 2010 — this time as the featured personality in a VH-1 reality show. And why not? It worked out so well the first time.
While talking from the studio, where the nine-time Grammy nominee is working on her upcoming album, Fantasia told rolling out she will take her fans on a talkative, dramatic and song-filled journey back to her North Carolina haunts and floss the very environs that made her a history-making musician.
“I just talk about my journey — my aunt calls it ‘my testimony.’ … I just feel that when you are living your life and you’re living your dream, people who are pursuing their dream and have been through some situations, they can say: ‘Hey! I’m just like that person and I can be just like that person and start all over again,’ and go after that thing that they’ve always wanted to do.”
Bring earmuffs, because Fantasia promises the show will bring the noise in the form of high-decibel singing, laughing, debating and talking throughout. She also addresses the poignant details that shaped her personality, including: coming from a musical family. (Her first cousins are K-Ci and JoJo of Jodeci.); of being raped; dropping out of school; becoming a teenage mother; and living off of that invaluable intangible called faith that made her a star.
And, of course, she will talk about how some of the public turned on her during her turbulent-filled 2008.
“2008 was trying times. You have to hear about [it], whether it be true or it be false. There was just a lot of talk. I remember having to go through the surgeries. I had two tumors. And there was just so much going on in my life. And let’s just say it’s just another testimony,” she says. “But I wanted everybody to see as I rebuild my dynasty as I show people that I’m still a 25-year-old, single mom that takes care of my whole family. Just showing all of my roots. We’re a loud family. We’re a loving family. But we also have our ups and our downs just like any regular family.” –terry shrosphire
