Corey Clark Biography
Corey Clark Age
Clark is 41 years old as of 2021, he was born on July 13, 1980, in San Bernardino, California, United States. He celebrates his birthday on July 13 every year and his birth sign is Cancer.
Corey Clark Height and Weight
Clark stands at a height of 6 feet 4 inches (1.96 meters), weighs 138 kg (304 lbs) and has black hair and brown eyes. However, details regarding his other body measurements are currently not publicly available. We will update this section when the information is available.
Corey Clark Education
Unfortunately, details about where Clark went to high school/college are not known to the public. This section will be updated as soon as the information is available.
Corey Clark Family, Parents and Siblings
Clark was born in San Bernardino, California, to Duane and Jan Clark, two singers who met on the road in Nashville, Tennessee in early 1978 while following their own musical aspirations.
Duane, an R&B and disco singer who sang in San Bernardino nightclubs and opened for Al Wilson and B. B. King and recorded and performed with the James Last Orchestra and the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, is of African American, Cherokee, Apache, and Blackfoot descent. Jan Clark, the Hungarian-Ukrainian, Jewish, Irish, French, Cherokee, and Algonquian great-granddaughter of a Budapest concert pianist, met Duane in Nashville while she worked in nightclubs specializing in R&B and Barbra Streisand.
The multiracial nature of the Clarks’ relationship and of Corey’s heritage was a source of racial conflict for the family during the Clarks’ early years in Lufkin, Texas, where Corey recalls a story his parents told him about; a December 1979 incident in which the couple was driving to church for a Christmas event, with Duane dressed as Santa Claus, when they were pulled over by a white police officer, who smashed one of the car’s taillights, and told Duane he was being pulled over and arrested for driving with a broken tail light.
He is the older brother of WNBA player Alysha Clark.
Corey Clark Husband, Wife, Dating
Clark has not gone public with his relationship, it is not publicly known whether he is married or in a relationship. Her partner’s information will be updated as soon as the information is available
Corey Clark Salary
Details about Clark’s salary are not yet disclosed. However, information about how much he makes will be updated as soon as it is available.
Corey Clark Net Worth
Clark’s net worth is estimated to be between $1 million and $5 million. This includes his assets, money, and income. His primary source of income is his career as a singer. Through his various sources of income, Clark has been able to accumulate a good fortune but prefers to lead a modest lifestyle.
Corey Clark Measurements and Facts
Here are some interesting facts and body measurements you should know about Corey Clark.
Corey Clark Wiki
- Full Names: Corey Delaney Clark
- Popular As: Clark
- Gender: Male
- Occupation / Profession: Singer
- Nationality: American
- Race / Ethnicity: White
- Religion: Not Known
- Sexual Orientation: Straight
Corey Clark Birthday
- Age / How Old?: 41 (2021)
- Zodiac Sign: Cancer
- Date of Birth: July 13, 1980
- Place of Birth: San Bernardino, California, US
- Birthday: July 13th
Corey Clark Body Measurements
- Body Measurements: Not Available
- Height / How Tall?: 6 feet 4 inches (1.96 meters)
- Weight: 138 kg (304 lbs)
- Eye Color: Dark brown
- Hair Color: Black
- Shoe Size: Not Available
- Dress Size: Not Available
- Chest Size: Not Available
- Waist Size: Not Available
- Biceps Size: Not Available
Corey Clark Family and Relationship
- Father (Dad): Jan Clark
- Mother: Duane Clark
- Siblings (Brothers and Sisters): Alysha Clark
- Marital Status: Single
- Dating / Girlfriend: Single
- Children: Not Available
Corey Clark Net Worth and Salary
- Net Worth: $1 million and $5 million
- Salary: Under Review
- Source of Income: Singer
Corey Clark Career
Clark’s interest in music began at a young age, with his first vivid memory being of his parents, aunt Audrey, and his father’s band recording a demo tape in a Denver studio.
He began singing at school functions and concerts at the age of 11 after attending concerts by Boyz II Men, TLC, and Montell Jordan. Clark’s first professional singing job came when he was 13 years old, when Debbie Byrd, a family friend, and vocal coach who later worked on American Idol, recruited him and his parents to be backup singers for Barry Manilow during a week-long appearance in Las Vegas.
Although Manilow was not a favorite of Clark’s, he realized his dream during this engagement, saying,
When the curtain went up the first night, I was floored by the response from the sell-out crowd. I’d never been on stage as a professional singer before, and I got to see someone at the peak of his career working the stage and the audience. Every night he made his performance feel fresh, not just going through the motions. Experiencing the energy of a live show wasn’t at all like listening to a tape or a CD, I realized. It was magical. I was hooked!
Clark began and performed as the lead vocalist in an R&B vocal group called Envy when he was 14 years old. Ne-Yo, Solomon Ridge, and Ray Blaylock were also members of the now-Grammy-winning group.
Envy competed in several talent shows before winning the grand prize in a Las Vegas amateur singing contest a few years later. Envy has also opened for major artists such as Ma and Destiny’s Child, as well as performed during Amateur Night at New York’s famed Apollo Theater in Harlem.
The band signed a recording contract in 2000, but nothing came of it, and the band disbanded after eight years of touring. Clark and his family relocated to Nashville, where he auditioned for the reality TV music competition show American Idol while working as a stagehand in 2002; he has been described as “one of the most impressive top ten finalists of the talent search’s second season.” Clark considers reaching the top 32 finalists during that season to be his proudest achievement.
Corey Clark Relationship with Paula Abdul
Clark began making allegations about his relationship with Abdul two years later. Clark stated in his E-book, They Told Me to Tell the Truth, So…: The Sex, Lies, and Paulatics of One of America’s Idols, and in a May 2005 interview with ABC’s Primetime Live that beginning on December 12, 2002, Idol judge Paula Abdul took him under her wing and coached him on how to succeed in the competition, including helping him select the right songs, clothes, and hairstyle, in order to avoid the show’s”
Clark provided as evidence of his relationship with Paula Abdul a message left on his voice mail, multiple eyewitness accounts of Clark and Abdul being intimate in public places, accounts by Clark’s parents of Abdul calling their home looking for Clark, a bottle of prescription-strength cough medicine prescribed to Abdul in Clark’s possession, and phone records of Abdul and Clark speaking to each other for several hours at a time during late-night huddles.
Abdul dismissed Clark’s claims as lies, saying she would not “dignify Clark’s claims with a response,” adding, “Not only do I never lie, but I never respond to lies.” Clark saw Abdul, the show, and the network as attempting to cover up the matter, as did the show’s other judges and some of the show’s former contestants.
Clark denies that his timing was a marketing ploy, saying, “If I wanted publicity, I could have done it two years ago when they were first trying to defame my name.”
Clark claims Abdul and the producers engaged in a character assassination campaign against him that he couldn’t afford to fight or ignore and accuses them of spreading lies about him throughout the industry in order to ruin his career.
Second season semi-finalist Nasheka Sidall, who stated on Primetime Live that she first heard “whispers” about the affair soon after her time on the show as a contestant, and fellow second season finalist Trenyce, who corroborated Clark’s claims on CNN’s Showbiz Tonight, were among the other former contestants who publicly backed Clark’s claims.
Clark denies that his timing was a marketing ploy, saying, “If I wanted publicity, I could have done it two years ago when they were first trying to defame my name.” Clark claims Abdul and the producers engaged in a character assassination campaign against him that he couldn’t afford to fight or ignore and accuses them of spreading lies about him throughout the industry in order to ruin his career.
Second season semi-finalist Nasheka Sidall, who stated on Primetime Live that she first heard “whispers” about the affair soon after her time on the show as a contestant, and fellow second season finalist Trenyce, who corroborated Clark’s claims on CNN’s Showbiz Tonight, were among the other former contestants who publicly backed Clark’s claims.
Clark also points to the fact in his e-book that his Idol roommates Ricky Smith and Ruben Studdard were never asked for their views on the validity of his claims, but that third season winner Fantasia Barrino was questioned as to her opinion about Clark’s allegations, which Clark saw as an attempt by Fox or its investigators to use Barrino’s following to bias the public against Clark. As Clark states:
All I have to say about it is that I have neither personally met Fantasia Barrino, nor have I ever competed against her on the same season of Idol, so there is no way that she could have accurately given a description to anybody, publicly or personally, about my or Paula’s actions during my time as a contestant on American Idol.
In August 2005, the investigators concluded that Clark’s claims of a sexual relationship “have not been substantiated by any corroborating evidence or witnesses, including those provided by Mr. Clark, and Ms. Abdul expressly denies that any such relationship ever existed,” following an internal investigation by an independent counsel appointed by Fox, which included interviews with Abdul, Clark, and other witnesses. According to the investigators, “Ms. Abdul acknowledges that she had telephone conversations with Mr. Clark while he was a contestant.”
Their accounts of those conversations, however, differ greatly, and no evidence was found to reconcile the discrepancies in their accounts.” The network announced that Abdul could continue judging on future seasons of American Idol, adding, “The line is whether it affects the outcome of the competition… It is first and foremost the sanctity of the competition.”
In the fourth season finale of American Idol, Fox televised a parody of Clark’s claims, in which judge Simon Cowell was alleged to be having an affair with himself. The parody was very close in plot to the Primetime Live story. Clark released a statement that the parody offended him, and was an “insult to the intelligence of the viewer”.
Corey Clark Songs
- 2005: Corey Clark
Tracks:
- “Chance to Dance” (Blaylock, Clark – 3:40)
- “Cherry on Top” (Blaylock, Clark, Cooks, Keane – 4:33)
- “Out of Control” (Clark – 3:36)
- “So Many Questions” (Blaylock, Clark, Pierce, Ridgel – 4:07)
- “Paulatics” (Clark, Cooks, Keane – 4:50)
- “Follow That Back” (Blaylock, Clark, Cooks, Keane, Reid – 4:16)
- “Feenin” (Blaylock, Clark, Cooks, Keane – 4:21)
- “Lights Out” (Clark, Cleveland – 4:50)
- “All This Love” (Debarge – 3:40)
- “Yes I Can” (Abernathy, Clark – 3:19)
- “Look What You’ve Done” (Abernathy, Blaylock, Clark – 4:22)
- “That’s My Girl” (Bonner, Clark, Cooks, Keane, Stokes – 4:23)
- “Truthfully” (Blaylock, Clark – 3:12)
- “Wiggle & Shake” (Blaylock, Clark, Cooks, Keane – 3:36)
- “Bed of Roses” (Bonner, Clark – 3:49)
Frequently Asked Questions About Corey Clark
Who is Corey Clark?
Clark is an American singer. He is known for his highly publicized disqualification from the second season of American Idol and later allegations of a sexual relationship with then-Idol judge Paula Abdul. Read
How old is Corey Clark?
Clark is an American national born on July 13, 1980, in San Bernardino, California, US.
How tall is Corey Clark?
Clark stands at a height of 6 feet 4 inches (1.96 meters).
Is Corey Clark married?
Details about Clark’s love life are still under review. We will let you know when he gets in a relationship or when we discover helpful information about his love life.
How much is Corey Clark worth?
Clark has an approximate net worth of $1 million and $5 million. This amount has been accrued from his leading roles in the music industry. Clark has not yet revealed his net worth. We will update this section when we get and verify information about the wealth and properties under his name.
How much does Corey Clark make?
Details about Clark’s salary are not yet disclosed. However, information about how much he makes will be updated as soon as it is available.
Where does Clark live?
Clark is a resident of Tallahassee, we shall upload pictures of his house as soon as we have them.
Is Clark dead or alive?
Clark is alive and in good health. There have been no reports of him being sick or having any health-related issues.
Where is Corey Clark Now?
Clark is pursuing his career in music. He is working as a singer.
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