Lakisha Jones is a 27-year old single mother from Fort Meade, Maryland. She started singing when she was five years old and prefers Gospel to other musical genres. Lakisha has received training in both classical and opera music, but has a very wide vocal range, which she showed off during her audition in New York for season 6 of American Idol. She blew the judges away with her rendition of Aretha Franklin's "Think." Lakisha worked her way through the Hollywood auditions and became one of the Top 24. She considers her grandmother Ruth Morris as her personal American Idol. Her favorite female pop artist is Kelly Clarkson, the first winner of American Idol.

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