Just saw this story on Yahoo. I wonder if she'll turn this into
something positive; wouldn't it be great to see her lead a campaign
against functional illiteracy?
Fantasia Barrino Reveals She's Illiterate
"American Idol" winner Fantasia Barrino reveals in her memoirs that she
is functionally illiterate and had to fake her way through some scripted
portions the televised talent show, which she won in 2004.
"You're illiterate to just about everything. You don't want to
misspell," Fantasia told ABC's "20/20." "So that, for me, kept me in a
box and I didn't, wouldn't come out."
The 21-year-old R&B singer says she's signed record deals and contracts
that she didn't read and couldn't understand. But the hardest part, she
said, is not being able to read to Zion, her 4-year-old daughter.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051001/ap_on_en_mu/people_fantasia_barrino
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