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Ashlee Simpson was born on October 3, 1984 in Waco, Texas and is the daughter of Joe Truett Simpson and Tina Ann Drew. She is also the younger sister of pop and reality show star Jessica Simpson. An accomplished dancer, Ashlee Simpson began studying classical ballet at the age of three years old, and was admitted to the School of American Ballet in New York City at the age of eleven. After her sister Jessica Simpson landed a record deal, the Simpson family decided to move to Los Angeles, California, where Ashlee began appearing in television commercials and television shows such as Malcolm in the Middle in 2001 and a recurring role on the family drama 7th Heaven. Tobuild interest in the beginning of her own music career, Ashlee Simpson got her own MTV reality show entitled The Ashlee Simpson Show. On July 20, 2004 she released her debut album, Autobiography. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and was certified triple platinum in the U.S. The album spawned three singles, Pieces of Me, Shadow and ‘La La’. Ashlee Simpson appeared as a musical guest on Episode 568 of Saturday Night Live
on October 23,2004 and was scheduled to perform two songs. Her first song, Pieces Of Me,went without a hitch but when she performed her second song, the vocals for the song Pieces of Me were heard again, before she had even raised the microphone to her mouth. She than broke into an impromptu dance. During the closing of the show Simpson appeared with the guest host Jude Law and said, "I’m so sorry. My band started playing the wrong song, and I didn’t know what to do, so I thought I’d do a ho-down. Since 2005, Ashlee Simpson has released two more albums, I Am Me and Bittersweet World.