Jasmine Villegas - Pop, Family and Family

Jasmine Villegas appeared in her first commercial at the age of nine which was for the animated feature titled ‘The Land Before Time IX’. During that time, she also did a TV show ‘Threat Matrix’ as well as some commercials like ‘Kellogg's Eggo’ and ‘Stuff by Hilary Duff’. Her first professional singing gig happened when she was aged eleven; she sang the national anthem for Los Angeles Clippers at a game. This performance of Villegas made her catch millions of eyeballs and she got considerable popularity. Apart from doing singing jobs, the talented girl also appeared in TV shows. In 2006, she made an appearance in an episode of ‘The Nine’. The following year, she appeared in Disney’s hit TV series ‘That's So Raven’, in the guest role of ‘Patty’. Three years later, she released her non-album singles ‘Serious’ and ‘All These Boys’. She also collaborated with Justin Bieber in 2010 for the music video ‘Baby’. After featuring in the clip, she was once again praised for her performance. After that, she joined Bieber for his ‘My World Tour’. In 2011, she released the mixtape ‘S(he) Be(lie)ve(d)’ followed by an EP ‘That's Me Right There’ in the year 2014. Villegas’ singing journey continued and she released her single ‘One Night’ in March 2015. Two months later, she released the first installment of her songbook series, co-written with R.W. Thomas. In June 2015, she released her Spanish single ‘Renegades’. All the contributions to music and films made by this American singer and actress have won her millions of fans, both national and international. Today, Jasmine V has 895K fans on her Instagram account and 1.89M fans on her Twitter handle.

Jasmine Marie Villegas was born on December 7, 1993 in San Jose, California, USA. Of Filipino and Mexican descent, she has three brothers - Robert Villegas, Justin Villegas and Jream Andrew Sablan. Her parents separated when she was a child. As far as the singer’s love life is concerned, she dated Ronnie Banks for a long time and got pregnant with his child in 2015. She delivered a baby girl (Ameera Reign Eloise Hackett) on February 19, 2016. The couple got engaged later on, in December 2016.

1) Jasmine Villegas has very good connections with the Australian singer Cody Simpson.

2) It was Jasmine V’s grandmother who got her into modeling after which the former started appearing in various pageant contests.

3) She took to Twitter on November 2, 2015 to announce the news of her pregnancy.

4) She has worked with young vocalists like Jessica Sanchez and Gabi Wilson.

5) Villegas has a dog named ‘Chase’, a cat named ‘Snuggles’ and a fish named ‘Mistake’.

6) She had dated Justin Bieber for a brief period of time. Their relationship began after Villegas appeared in Bieber’s music video ‘Baby’ in the year 2010.