VANESSA ANNE HUDGENS (Early life and Her career)
Early life
Hudgens was born in Salinas, California, the daughter of Gina (née Guangco) and Greg Hudgens.[5] She has a sister, Stella Teodora Hudgens (born November 13, 1995, San Diego).[6] Hudgens's father is an American of Irish and Native American descent, and her mother, who grew up in Manila, is a Filipino-born of Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese descent.[7][5] Hudgens has been home-schooled since after her seventh-grade year at the Orange County High School of the Arts.
Starting at the age of eight, Hudgens performed in musical theater as a singer, and appeared in local productions of Carousel, The Wizard of Oz, The King and I, The Music Man, and Cinderella, among others.[8] Hudgens began performing at an early age, appearing in musicals starting at age eight. She made her feature film debut in Thirteen as Noel and appeared in the 2004 film Thunderbirds as Tintin.[9] In both her first two films Hudgens appeared alongside Brady Corbet. Her appearances include guest roles on Quintuplets, Still Standing, The Brothers García, Drake & Josh and The Suite Life of Zack & Cody.
Career
2005-2007: High School Musical and debut album
Hudgens's breakout role has been starring in the Disney Channel movie series High School Musical, starring as Gabriella Montez. Hudgens and Efron had won "Best Chemistry" award at the Teen Choice Awards for their roles.[10] Her contributions to the High School Musical soundtrack with several songs. Hudgens started concentrating on her music career by signing a record deal with Hollywood Records in 2006 as the start of her solo career, but first covered the song "Colors Of The Wind" for Disneymania 5 album in that same year.
Hudgens' debut album, entitled V, was released in late September 2006. V debuted on the Billboard 200 in early October 2006 at number twenty-four on the chart, with 34,000 copies sold that week.[11] Hudgens described V as a 'wide mix of things.' The first single was "Come Back to Me", while the second and final single was "Say OK". Hudgens promoted the album when opening for The Cheetah Girls during their The Party's Just Begun Tour.[10] V was certified Gold for shipments to retailers of 500,000 copies on February 27, 2007,[12] and was nominated as #7 on "Album of The Year" by Billboard Readers' Choice.[13] Hudgens was named the Female Breakout Singer at the 2007 Teen Choice Awards.[14]
Hudgens launched a tour with the rest of the cast of High School Musical in fall 2006, performing the songs from the soundtrack album as well of the three singles from her debut album.[15] A DVD and an album named High School Musical: The Concert were released in 2007, which includes one song performed live by her. She sang the duet "Still There For Me" with Corbin Bleu for his debut album. Hudgens appeared on the High School Musical 2 soundtrack.
2008-present: Identified and future projects
Her sophomore album was Identified and was released on July 1, 2008.[16] On the first week of the release of her album, Identified sold more than 22,000 copies. Though the album had poor sales its first week. The first single from this album, "Sneakernight". Hudgens launched on July 31, 2008 her first solo tour called "Identified Summer Tour" across United States in order to promote her first two albums and the tour also reached Mexico.
On January 11, 2008, The Hollywood Reporter announced that Hudgens would star in the comedy, Bandslam. Hudgens will play 15-year old Sam; the film has a mid-summer release.[17][4] Hudgens reprised her role as Gabriella for the third time in High School Musical 3: Senior Year and also appeared on the soundtrack of the movie. She also performed at the 81st Academy Awards with Zac Efron and other celebrities. [18] She will be starring in Sucker Punch which will release in 2010. [19] She will also star in the movie adaptation of Beastly. [20]
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