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It All Started With American Idol! - Fantasia winning American Idol catapulted her career into high gear.(Photo: Frank Micelotta/Getty Images) 

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Go On, Girl, and Get That Grammy! - Fantasia won her first Grammy Award in 2010 for her vocal performance on the track "Bittersweet," from her third studio album. (Photo: Gregg DeGuire / AFF-USA.COM)

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She Becomes a Hall of Famer - On October 16, 2014, Fantasia Barrino was inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame. (Photo: Ethan Miller/BET/Getty Images for BET)

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She Blessed Us With Free Yourself - Back in 2004, Fantasia released her first debut album, Free Yourself.(Photo: J-Records)

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Meet the Queen of Rock Soul - Widely known as "Baby Patti LaBelle," Fantasia has been dubbed the "Queen of Rock Soul" by NewsOne.(Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

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 Making Broadway Moves - Transitioning from singing to acting, she played the part of Celie in the Broadway musical The Color Purple, for which she won a 2007 Theatre World Award.(Photo: Rick Diamond/Getty Images for Super Bowl Gospel)

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She Better Uplift the Name of the Lord - We are all craving a gospel album from Fantasia and we got a glimpse of what that album could sound like in 2011. Barrino was cast in her first film role, playing gospel singer Mahalia Jackson in a biopic based on the 1993 book Got to Tell It: Mahalia Jackson, Queen of Gospel.(Photo: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Lincoln Center)