pa href="http://news.yahoo.com/fame-failure-rebirth-jordin-sparks-finds-sparkles-004754317.html"img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/VRtvobZb6J_3L_N55KWL1Q--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2012-08-15T143857Z_1_CBRE87E14OZ00_RTROPTP_2_MUSIC-US-SPARKLE-JORDINSPARKS.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Publicity photo of Jordin Sparks and Whitney Houston in scene from quot;Sparklequot;" align="left" title="Publicity photo of Jordin Sparks and Whitney Houston in scene from quot;Sparklequot;" border="0" //aLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Five years after becoming the youngest female to win quot;American Idol,quot; Jordin Sparks restarts her career in a new movie role that the 22-year-old sees as remarkably close to her own life singing her way to fame. Just like her real-life parents, Sparks#039; onscreen mother Whitney Houston cheered and coached her, off camera, as she rebounded from career changes and transitioned from music to the movie quot;Sparkle,quot; which hits theaters on Friday. .../pbr clear="all"/
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