JENNIFER HUDSON
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o doubt about it: Jennifer Hudson is a triple threat. She has won a Grammy for her singing and an Academy Award for her role in Dreamgirls. Her memoir is a New York Times bestseller. And she’s only 32. Where she came from, Hudson says, made her what she is today. It was her childhood in Chicago — singing gospel solos at the age of seven at her Baptist church, watching drag performers at the local gay clubs and always listening to her mom’s advice — that made the difference. Hudson, who has a third album coming out later this month, recently spoke with Equality from her home in Chicago, where she lives with her fiancé and son.
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EQUALITY
LATE SUMMER/EARLY FALL 2014