The US Trends | Julianne Hough | julianne hough wardrobe malfunction pictures, julianne hough diet and exercise, julianne hough and ryan seacrest, julianne hough mormon, - Julianne Hough is an American professional ballroom dancer, country music singer and actress. She was born on July 20, 1988 in Sandy, Utah. Julianne Hough is most widely known for being a two-time winner of ABC's Dancing with the Stars. She earned a Creative Arts Primetime Emmy nomination in 2007 for choreography. ABC's 20/20 called her one of the "very best dancers on the planet."
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Hough'sbrother, Derek, is also on Dancing with the Stars and is a three-time winner himself. Hough was signed to Mercury Nashville Records in December 2007. Her self titled debut album was released May 20, 2008, debuting at No.1 on the Billboard Country Album chart and No.3 on the Billboard 200. It sold 67,000 copies its first week, and has sold over 320,000 total copies. On October 12, 2008, she released a holiday album, Sounds of the Season:The Julianne Hough Holiday Collection, which as of January5,2009, had sold 157,000copies.
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Julianne Hough grew up the last of five children in a Latter-day Saint (Mormon) family in Sandy,Utah, a suburb of SaltLakeCity. Her parents are Mari Anne and Bruce Robert Hough, who was twice chairman of the Utah RepublicanParty. Her brother,DerekHough, is also a professional dancer. She also has three older sisters, Sharee, Marabeth, and Katherine.All four of Hough's grandparents were dancers, and her parents met while on a ballroom dancing team in college,in Idaho.
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Her formal training began at the Center Stage Performing Arts Studio in Orem, Utah, where she danced with Josh Murillo, among others, in Latin Ballroom; Hough began dancing competitively at nine. Hough's parents sent her and brotherDerek to London a year later to live and study with their coaches, Corky and Shirley Ballas, and to spare them the strife of divorce. TheBallases helped tutor the twoHough children alongside their own son, Mark, schooling them at the Italia Conti Academy. They received training in song, theatre, gymnastics and many forms of dance, including jazz, ballet, and tap.
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Thethree children formed theirown pop music trio 2B1G when Hough was twelve, performed at dance competitions in the UKand the U.S., and showcased in a UK television show. At fifteen, Julianne Hough became the youngest dancer, and only American, to win both JuniorWorld LatinChampion and InternationalLatin YouthChampion at the BlackpoolDanceFestival. After five years in London, Hough returned to the U.S., first living with her mother for a year and attending LasVegas Academy.
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