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Christina Perri

Personal Life:

Christina was born on August 19th, 1986 and is from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is the younger sister to Nick Perri, who use to play guitar with the likes of Shinedown. She had taught herself how to play guitar at the age of 16. As a child, she use to sing and act in musical theatre. 

Career:

During her divorce in her early 20s, she had wrote "Jar of Hearts". After being played on the TV show "So You Think You Can Dance" in 2010, the song sold 48,000 digital copies within the first week. It has sold 3 million copies in the US and reached no.3 in the charts in the UK. After this success, Perri was signed to Atlantic Records on July 21, 2010. Jar of Hearts had reached No.2 in Australia and the Republic of Ireland, No.3 in Czech Republic and No.4 in the UK and Finland. With it being the 11th best selling single of 2011 in the UK. 

In July 2011, she began her first world tour which had lasted a year. She released "A Thousand Years" single which featured on the soundtrack for the Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 1. The song is 4x Platinum, with over 4 million sales within the US, to date it has been her most successful single.