Christina Judith Perri is an American singer and songwriter from Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Her debut single Jar of Hearts charted after it was featured on the Fox television show So You Think You Can Dance in 2010. The single went on to sell overmillion copies in the United States and was a hit around the world. In the UK, it reached number three on the charts and spent over three months in the UK Top 40. A few months later, Perri released her first extended play, The Ocean Way Sessions.
Perri was born in Bensalem, Pennsylvania to Mary and Dante Perri. She has an older brother, Nick Perri, who formerly played guitar with Shinedown, Silvertide, Perry Farrell and Matt Sorum and cousin Dominic Perri Her father was from Italy.
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