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Paris Giselle Bennett (born August 21, 1988) is an American singer, best known for being a finalist on the fifth season of American Idol, where she finished in fifth place. She has three brothers, Shakur, James and Dustin.
Paris was born in Rockford, IL. Her mother, Jamecia, and grandmother, famed singer Ann Nesby, were both members of the gospel group Sounds of Blackness. Bennett has lived with her grandmother the past two years in Fayetteville, Georgia, attending Starr’s Mill High School for eleventh and twelfth grades, but is originally from Edina, Minnesota. She attended Edina High School from 2003-2005 for tenth and eleventh grades. She was very active in theater and the performing arts. She played Dorothy, the lead in the school’s production of “The Wiz”. She was also a member of her school’s Danceline and Hip-Hop Dance Club. Paris attended Christian Life School in Rockford for eighth grade.
Her audition in Greensboro, North Carolina initially featured “Cowboy Take Me Away” by The Dixie Chicks. When judge Paula Abdul invited her to sing a second song, she continued with Carmen McRae’s vocal version of Dave Brubeck’s “Take Five.” All three judges, including Simon Cowell, who is often cited as being conservative with his praise, were impressed with Bennett’s talent.

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1	Midnight Train To Georgia full track	25
2	Dreamin' full track	19
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4	B-Bye full track	10
5	Can't Control Myself	5
5	Ordinary Love	5
7	My Boyfriend's Back	3
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9	I'm So Hot	2
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Rascott03 wrote:
last month

She was to good to have such a shitty album. I hate when talented people are given the wrong material to sing.

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J5er wrote:
August 2009

CAN'T CONTROL MYSELF <3

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MilesBrown24 wrote:
June 2009

Paris Bennett is amazing. She's the only person I remember from AI5. I hope she releases new material that's better than Princess P which I don't think showed her talent.

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MarcusAKAFatima wrote:
February 2008

I hate standards albums for the most part, but if anyone needs to do one, it's certainly her. These Foolish Things was the best thing from AI5

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blabbers wrote:
January 2008

she deserves a much better album than Princess P. her first album did nothing for her career.

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ilxu_xatu wrote:
January 2008

um i hated her album did better on American Idol

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candysweetgurl wrote:
January 2008

b-bye is so stupid

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blabbers wrote:
January 2008

she could make a really good album. :D

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Krumeluur wrote:
October 2007

She was so wonderful on Idols :/

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blabbers wrote:
September 2007

blah. paris deserves more!!! :D

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Manhattan_Dream wrote:
September 2007

she's great....

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Mister_Tweak wrote:
August 2007

I'm So Hot rocks

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MsMelo wrote:
August 2007

she sucks now. :)

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menslar wrote:
August 2007

Paris has a new duet with Dean Martin, called Baby-O, that I just luv!

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menslar wrote:
June 2007

I really liked Paris on AI, but I'm rather disappointed with her album, too. Some of the songs are good, but many of them are just not songs that I want to listen to. I do like Get Bizzy and All Hail the Princess, in addition to Ordinary Love. The rest of the songs are just so-so, at best. I had hoped for better from our princess. I like most of her AI performances better than her album songs.

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tengteng wrote:
June 2007

i have to tell the truth.this album isn't good.Only Ordinary Love is good song,the others are sucks.so,that's why the sells flopped!!The worst debut sells of Idols!

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Findarto wrote:
May 2007

She should have won off of this album.

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MarcusAKAFatima wrote:
April 2007

@cantstopjp ---I feel the exact same way!

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idolescence wrote:
April 2007

Wow... I'm one of her top listeners though i don't listen to her that much!

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slew0408 wrote:
March 2007

lol

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