Ruben Studdard
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"Christopher Ruben Studdard", best known as "Ruben Studdard", is an United States/American Contemporary R&B/R&B, pop music/pop and gospel music/gospel singing/singer. He rose to fame as winner of the American Idol (season 2)/second season of American Idol and received a Grammy Award nomination in December 2003 for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for "Superstar." In the years following Idol, Studdard has released five studio albums, including his platinum-selling debut, Soulful (Ruben Studdard album)/Soulful and the top-selling gospel follow-up, I Need an Angel (album)/I Need an Angel. He is most well known for his recording career, which has produced hits including "Flying Without Wings," "Sorry 2004" and "Change Me," but he has also segued into television and stage work. Most notably, he toured with Robin Givens in the comedy-drama Heaven I Need a Hug and in 2008 starred as Fats Waller in a national tour revival of Ain't Misbehavin' (musical)/Ain't Misbehavin'., which spawned a Grammy-nominated soundtrack.

Studdard most recently appeared on the fifteenth season of The Biggest Loser: Second Chances 2/The Biggest Loser. He is signed to Verve Records and released his newest album, Unconditional Love, on February 4, 2014.

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You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do. But you don't know to be arrogant about it.

We've been a family for 10 months, ... It's going to be difficult for us to split apart. But we're all grown people and we have our own responsibilities to take care of.

You have to learn that if you start making sure you feel good, everything will be okay.

People don't have to like or support you, so you always have to say thank you.

I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well. Nobody's opinion of me can shake my opinion of myself.

Flying Without Wings.

Everybody in this competition is a winner, ... I don't think there's too much difference.

I am a product of the public school system ... and I had a lot of friends involved in gang activity.