Multi-platinum singing sensation Jessica Simpson is known not only as a successful musical artist, but a refreshingly honest and positive role model. With a hit album and the enormously popular MTV series, "Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica," with husband Nick Lachey, Jessica is on top of the world. Enjoying tremendous success since her 1999 debut album, Sweet Kisses, Jessica's newest release, In This Skin, showcases her transition from pop-star to mature woman. In addition to an upcoming variety special with her husband for ABC, Jessica will star in a pilot for an ABC sitcom that could be picked up for next season. Enjoying the peak of popularity, she is also entertaining numerous offers for film roles.
In response to the steadily increasing popularity of Jessica and her music, Columbia Records is releasing a special expanded version of In This Skin in March. "With You," Jessica's latest and biggest hit single (and the first she has co-written), has hit the #1 spot on the Billboard/Monitor Top 40 Mainstream Audience chart. A video for the song is currently among the most-played on MTV.
The new expanded version of In This Skin features two newly-recorded bonus tracks: Jessica's soaring renditions of "Take My Breath Away" (from "Top Gun") and Robbie Williams' "Angels." The album also contains an exclusive acoustic version of Jessica's #1 hit single, "With You." In addition, the newly expanded version of In This Skin will include an exclusive DVD featuring classic scenes from the first season of "Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica," as well as romantic footage from Nick and Jessica's wedding.
Originally released in late August 2003, In This Skin debuted at #10 on the Billboard 200 best-selling albums chart the week of its release and had fallen to #127 by October. In one of the most remarkable sales turnarounds in recent pop history, In This Skin, driven by "With You" and Jessica's television stardom, began climbing back up the charts and into the Top 20 in early 2004.
With opportunities for endorsements and other opportunities pouring in, Jessica recently appeared in a Super Bowl spot with the Muppets for Pizza Hut. She will launch a highly-anticipated fragrance line, Dessert, this April as a partner in the venture. In addition to recent covers of such publications as Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, US Weekly, Seventeen and Teen People, Jessica will be featured on upcoming covers of Cosmopolitan and Allure. She and Nick experienced yet another career high in January, hosting NBC's Saturday Night Live.
Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, Jessica shared bills with gospel acts like Kirk Franklin, God's Property, and CeCe Winans and toured in support of the pop group 98° -- which featured her future husband, Nick Lachey -- prior to the 1999 release of her Columbia Records debut album, Sweet Kisses. The double platinum Sweet Kisses, featured Jessica's massive breakthrough hit, "I Wanna Love You Forever." The title track to Irresistible, her 2001 follow-up, was a similar crossover smash.
