R&B Singers Who Conquered Broadway

Jordin Sparks is living her dreams. She recently announced that she’ll team up with the cast of the hit play “In the Heights” to make her Broadway debut. Sparks, 20, is “American Idol’s” 2007 champ and plans to win again in her role as Nina Rosario, a college-bound young girl trying to overcome the obstacles of growing up in the Dominican neighborhood of Washington Heights, New York. The Tony and Grammy-winning Broadway musical will welcome Sparks for a limited 12-week engagement from August 19th to November 14th, and she is more than excited. “It’s always been one of my dreams to perform on Broadway… Sparks joins an elite list of female R&B singers who have made Broadway home. Both demanding and rewarding, all of the following songstresses happily know what Sparks is about to experience.