Kelly Clarkson Buys $1.5 Million Nashville Home (Photos)

Posted on: April 18th, 2008 by: Meg

Kelly Clarkson, American Idol’s first season winner, has purchased a great looking home in Nashville for a reported $1,490,000. The 5,470 square feet, 5 bedroom, 5 bathroom home is a second home for the singer, who also has a residence in Texas. Seems like a strong signal that Clarkson may be changing it up and trying her hand at country music. Idol alumni Carrie Underwood and Kellie Pickler have found success in this genre.

The Idol winner ran into a bad patch when she and record mogul Clive Davis butted heads about song choice and how the singer should be marketed. She canceled a planned concert tour because she couldn’t muster enough ticket sales to fill any of the venues. She and Clive have since mended fences and Clarkson has become more receptive to the career path decisions that are being charted by others on her behalf.

After attending Clarkson’s performance rehearsal prior to the American Idol season six finale, Blender magazine described Clarkson’s voice as such:

The Texas native has one of the great voices in pop music, a powerful and versatile instrument that’s steeped in the rhythm and blues and country music she grew up with in the South. If Mariah Carey’s five-octave voice is the equivalent of an expensively bred poodle, then Clarkson’s is a bloodhound: friendly, earthy, but fierce just the same.”

Check out photos of Clarkson’s home below.