Soulful Clarkson Turned Away Because She Was White

Kelly Clarkson tells The Glasgow Daily Record she was turned away from one record company just because she was white before she found fame on ‘American Idol’. Kelly said: ”I sent my CD demo to lots of record companies. One was really interested and they asked me to go in to speak to them with a view to signing something. ‘When they saw me and realized I was white they didn’t want to know. They thought I was black when they heard me singing. I didn’t think anything like that could happen, but it is all about marketing. They didn’t think they could market a white girl who sang like a black girl.”