On February 2, 2009, Jazmine Sullivan performed on ABC's Good Morning America and was briefly interviewed before perfoming. I've added the video to download and also on YouTube for your viewing pleasure so make sure to check it out. She performed Lions, Tigers & Bears. Their were some technical difficulties in the beginning but it was resolved and everything went as planned.

After a long apprenticeship, it's been an astonishingly fast rise for R&B singer Jazmine Sullivan. CNN's KJ Matthews talked with Sullivan about her inspirations, who she's bringing to the Grammys and the mysterious person behind "Bust Your Windows." The following is an edited version of that interview.

CNN: How would you describe your sound?
Jazmine Sullivan: I can't really describe it; that's the whole thing. Once you hear the CD, you'll hear that one sound doesn't sound like the next. You know, I've been influenced by so many different styles and different genres of music that I felt like that should be represented on my first album, so when you get it, you get a taste of gospel, jazz, R&B, hip-hop, reggae, pop ... everything is on there, there's something for everybody to enjoy. I didn't want to exclude anybody from the album.

CNN: Let me ask you this: When you saw or heard the other nominees in the best new artist category who happen to be a little bit more well-known, was it intimidating? I mean, you got the Jonas Brothers, Katy Perry, Adele ...
Sullivan: Yeah, the Jonas Brothers, specifically. I didn't even know they were new artists because they are so huge, so, you know, so after, when my name was called after theirs, I thought, "Wow, they're new artists, too?" I got a little scared, I tell you that.

But I'm just so honored to be mentioned to be in the same categories with such wonderful artists, so I'm looking forward to February and the Grammys and just being in that atmosphere.

CNN: I was looking at your background, and I didn't know that you're a protegee of Missy Elliott. I was thinking to myself, you would think that you would do rap, but you're this big voice, this soulful voice. You might not equate that with Missy.
Sullivan: Yeah, and a lot of people don't know that Missy Elliott ... grew up in the church, and she's really into vocalists. When I met her, was I was about 13 or 14, [and] she was ecstatic about me. When nobody else was there to support me, Missy was there, so she's a good friend of mine, and I'm happy to have her by my side. She's definitely taught me a lot of things.

CNN: So everybody wants to know, the guy behind "Bust Your Windows" -- is there one?
Sullivan: We won't talk about that on camera -- that's an off-camera conversation -- but it's definitely a song that relates to a lot of women especially. You know, even if they really haven't busted windows out of anybody's car, they have wanted to. A lot of women have been through that, so I'm glad that my music is touching those people

CNN: "Need U Bad" is rising as well. What's the thought process behind that one?
Sullivan: "Need U Bad" ... a lot of men actually pointed out to me that women don't come out and admit that they made mistakes and say that they actually need the male, so I think that was kind of cool. I haven't thought of it like that when I was writing it. So, you know, it's a song for the fellas, saying that we appreciate them and we need you as much as you need us.

But on the flip side, I do a song like "Bust Your Windows," so on the album you have a lot of different perceptions and everything.

CNN: How old are you? You look like you're 10.
Sullivan: I'm 21 years old.

CNN: Success that early, that's sometimes tough for people.
Sullivan: Well, I've been in this industry for a very long time. I started out when I was 12; I got signed when I was 16, so it wasn't an overnight success story at all. I put a lot of hard work into it, and this is just a byproduct of all of that.

CNN: It's great that you write your own music too, because a lot of people don't do that. You have a lot more creative control.
Sullivan: Most definitely, and I've dealt with not having that control when I was younger and I was signed. I wasn't writing at all, and so I've been through all of that. So now to be in a position where I write my music, and I have that control -- it feels so much better.

CNN: All right, the big question: Grammy night. What are you wearing? Who are you bringing? What are you going to be doing?
Sullivan: I'm bringing my mother. She's been my rock and my support ever since I was a baby. She was my first huge fan, that what she is.

I don't know what I'm wearing. I'm trying not to think about that. I want to perform. Hopefully I can get on stage and I can show everybody who I am and what I'm about. But I haven't thought about the dress or the shoes or the hair or anything about that.

CNN: You're just trying to enjoy the moment.
Sullivan: Enjoy, yes.

Our girl Jazmine Sullivan debuted the video for her third single Lions, Tigers, & Bears from her debut album Fearless online today. The Syndrome-directed video for the single embodies the essence of Victor Fleming’s 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, mixed beautifully into a contemporary pop-art backdrop. Leave your comments:

After ringing in 2009 with killer performances on BET’s 106 & Party New Year’s Eve Special, Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson and BET’s Inaugural Ball, Jazmine will perform on Good Morning America on February 2nd and Jimmy Kimmel Live on February 6th. Jazmine will also be featured in Katie Couric’s All Access Grammy Special airing February 4th on CBS. You definitely don't want to miss these:

February 2, 2009 - Good Morning American Concert Series on ABC at 7:00 AM ET - Performing
February 4, 2009 - Katie Couric’s Grammy Special (CBS)on CBS at 9:00 PM ET - Appearing
February 6, 2009 - Jimmy Kimmel Live! on ABC at 12:05 AM ET - Performing

Jazmine Sullivan is featured on the February 2nd issue of JET Magazine, where she talks about her Grammy nomination.

The article says "When asked what her most memorable experience has been thus far in her professional singing career, 21-year-old Jazmine Sullivan responds with a very good answer: Being nominated for five Grammys."

Click on the picture to see the article

On Wednesday Feb. 4 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT), CBS News will broadcast Katie Couric's All Access Grammy Special on the CBS Television Network. Couric gets personal with some of music’s leading artists as she interviews past and present Grammy nominees, including Justin Timberlake, Lil’ Wayne, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift and Jazmine Sullivan. Check out a quick hit of Jazmine from the special.

Rapper Jadakiss is releasing a new album titled The Last Kiss on March 10 and Jazmine Sullivan is featured on a song. The song is titled Smoking Gun and was produced by producer extraordinaire, Just Blaze.

Here is the video of the lovely Jazmine Sullivan performing on BET on the eve of Barack Obama's inaugration as the President of the United States. At the Inauguration celebration, Jazmine performed her upcoming singles Lions, Bears, Tigers and Dream Big. Check out the video. Thanks so much to

On January 20, 2009 Barack Obama was sworn in as the President of the United States and their were many celebrations. Jazmine Sullivan attended one of them and even performed live on TV. Yes We Will! BET's Inauguration Celebration, was televised that night, where Jazmine performed Lions, Bears, Tigers and Dream Big. Here are the photos:

Three of the top R&B recording stars have teamed up for what promises to be one of 2009s best tours - they are none other than Ne-Yo, Jazmine Sullivan and Musiq Soulchild! Ne-Yo's Year of the Gentleman Tour kicks off on February 5, 2009 in Las Vegas, NV at the Pearl Concert Theatre at the Palms Casino. Below are the dates that have been booked so far. As always, tickets can be bought at ticketmaster.com

02/05 | Las Vegas, NV - The Pearl at Palms
02/06 | Oakland, CA - Paramount Theatre
02/07 | Los Angeles, CA - Club Nokia
02/09 | Stanford, CA - Stanford University
02/10 | Gainesville, FL - O'Connell Center
02/11 | Miami, FL - American Airlines Arena
02/13 | New Orleans, LA - UNO Lake Front
02/14 | Houston, TX - Reliant Center
02/15 | Grand Prairie, TX - Nokia Theatre
02/17 | Baltimore, MD - Lyric Theater
02/18 | Washington, DC - Constitution Hall
02/19 | Baltimore, MD - Lyric Theater
02/20 | New York, NY - Radio City Music Hall
02/21 | Newark, DE - University of Delaware
02/22 | Philadelphia, PA - Tower Theatre
02/25 | Atlanta, GA - Fox Theatre
02/26 | Memphis, TN - Orpheum Theater
02/27 | Chicago, IL - Chicago Theater
02/28 | Detroit, MI - Fox Theatre
03/01 | St. Louis, MO - Fox Theatre

Dates are tentative to change as well as new dates are to be added.

On Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Nick Cannon will host the BET network’s one-hour inauguration celebration special, Yes We Will! Broadcast live, the event will include performances by Common and Jazmine Sullivan . It will also feature live shots from BET’s Inaugral Ball, happening concurrently at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in D.C. That event will include a performance by Wyclef Jean and appearances by Gen. Colin Powell and his wife Alma.

Last night Jazmine Sullivan was on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and performed the lovely Bust Your Windows. We have the video download of the great performance that Jazmine delivered. If you can't download it, you can see the video on YouTube as well. Thanks so much to Dee for the video.

Congratulations to Jazmine Sullivan for her nomination in the Outstanding New Artist category for the 40th NAACP Image Awards. The 40th NAACP Image Awards will air live on Thursday, February 12 at 8:00 PM ET.

Jazmine will go against newcomers Anthony David, Estelle, Jennifer Hudson and Leona Lewis.

Check out this beautiful photoshoot of Jazmine Sullivan by photographer Candice Lawler. The photoshoot was done exclusively for MTV.com and really captured the beauty of our girl.

Don't miss Jazmine Sullivan performing "Bust Your Windows" tonight, January 7, 2009 on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.

It comes on at 12:35am ET on CBS

In Lions, Tigers, Bears Jazmine is relating the classic fable (The Wizard of Oz) to her life in the music business, Jazmine Sullivan says "The lions, tigers and bears reference represents my career in the business. Even though it can be pretty scary and overwhelming at times, I've been doing it for so long (most of my life) that I can handle that."

But love, to Sullivan, is another animal: "You can't see, hear or smell it," she says of the four-letter word that embodies our deepest emotion.

"Lions, Tigers, and Bears" becomes the singer's third single from her now five-time Grammy nominated debut "Fearless". Summing up the story behind her third single Sullivan says "Being afraid of love and everything that goes with it, like not having complete control of your emotions and putting your heart in someone else's hands to do with it what they please. Having to pick up the pieces and try again if things go wrong. (and they do) That's scary. But, in the end not trying is worse than failing..."

Listen to Lions, Bears, Tigers:

Jazmine Sullivan was one of the stars who hit the stage at BET's annual New Year's bash 106 & Party. 106 & Park's Terrence and Rocsi brought in 2009 and you couldn't miss it. Check out the photos after the break.

At S.O.B.’s on Monday night she kept her fangs largely hidden, instead giving herself over to the often gorgeous vintage soul that dominates her debut album.

Ms. Sullivan has formidable melodic instincts and writes compact, evocative songs. As a vocalist, though, she’s capable but indistinct, at times struggling to color in her very sturdy outlines; in the mid-1960s, when her main influences were last in fashion, she might have been the third-best singer in a second-tier girl group. The bigger the note, the raspier and thinner she sounds.

Here that flimsiness persistently held her back, leaving her performance just short of potent. The songs at the beginning of her set - the vindictive “Bust Your Windows,” the anguished “Lions, Tigers & Bears” - were animated but not quite crisp. During the soft breakdown toward the end of “One Night Stand,” one of the album’s vocal high points, Ms. Sullivan got overpowered by her band, which was playing a firm Motown strut.

Though she performed most of her album, Ms. Sullivan notably, and unfortunately, skipped its emotional poles - the domestic-abuse tale “Call Me Guilty” and the lighthearted “Switch!” - opting instead for the unmemorable “Dream Big” and “After the Hurricane.”

Bursting out of a tight white tuxedo shirt underneath a black overall dress and sporting a fingerless black glove on her right hand, she was a combination of tender and tough; at times she sang while clutching a white towel, which she used to wipe her forehead between songs as a prizefighter would between rounds.

Certainly Ms. Sullivan would like to be a contender, and on “In Love With Another Man” she truly sounded like one. It’s a wrenching, unadorned ballad about trading stability for risk, and as she moved through the lyric, singing with admirable intensity, she slid more and more off the beat until it wasn’t clear if she could hear the music at all. When unraveled, she sounded totally certain.

On December 12, 2008 Jazmine performed for the grown & sexy at a club in Little Rock, AR called Club Hollywood. She looked beautiful as always. Check out the photos from the event.

When five-time Grammy nominee Jazmine Sullivan hits the awards show for the first time this year, she plans to make a beeline for one band only: Coldplay.

"I am so excited to meet them!" Sullivan tells PEOPLE. "I actually want to do a song with Chris Martin, so maybe somebody will introduce me to him, or I can slip him an album and he can listen!"

The R&B songstress, who earned the highly-coveted best new artist nod, still can't believe her good fortune. "When they called the Jonas Brothers, I started getting nervous. I was like, 'Man ... they're huge!' I didn't even know they were new artists!" But with mom right by her side - "I must have grabbed her arm so hard she probably still has red marks!" - she learned she had actually received not just one, but five nominations. "It was surreal," says the Philly-native, who texted mentor Missy Elliott as soon as she heard. "I've been working for this my whole life and to see it finally pay off is just wonderful."

Elliott couldn't be more proud of her protégé. "In the church world we say someone who sings with such magnitude is 'a beast.' Well I guess this beast has been unleashed!" Elliott says.

So, if all goes well, where does one find room for five Grammys?

"My brother plays tennis, so he has hundreds of trophies from when he was younger in our computer room and it takes up all the space," Sullivan says with a laugh. "I'll move his to the floor and put mine there!"