The protégé of rapper Missy Elliott, Jazmine Sullivan struck it big in 2008 with
her debut single Need U Bad, though she had been primed for stardom long before
that. Her mother was a back-up singer at Philadelphia International Records and
Jazmine sang in church choirs and became a vocal music major at Philadelphia
High School for the Creative and Performing Arts. She was signed by Jive Records
at 16 and recorded an entire album on which several tracks were produced by
Missy Elliott and, although the album was never released, Elliott took Jazmine
under her wing. It led to a new ...