JOJO

JoJo is back to doing what she does best—making beautiful music.

- devon preston

At age 13, JoJo made history as the youngest artist in America to land a No. 1 single, and then again as the youngest nominee for an MTV Video Music Award. JoJo astounded audiences with her powerful pipes and it seemed like she was priming herself to be the next R&B superstar. But, due to a failing record label, it would be 10 years until the world heard from JoJo again. Now, with a brand new album tearing up the charts, JoJo is back and here to stay. On May 1, JoJo released “Good to Know,” showing her resilience and fortitude as an artist who’s fought hard to continue making music. “When people ask me, ‘Why did you decide to keep going?’ I just don’t understand what the alternative is,” JoJo says. “This is something I started when I was a little girl and I refuse to let the industry, the politics and the things that were outside of my control define me. When you keep going, that’s how you win.”

JoJo’s career took off when she was 12 years old, after she signed to Blackground Records and later released her first No. 1 hit, “Leave (Get Out).” In her early teens, she went on to star in two of the biggest family films of the year and released her second album, which peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Top 200. At that time, she saw more world tours and more No. 1 singles in her future; however, the decade did not go as planned.