Jennifer-Yvette Holliday is an American singer and Tony Award-winning actress. She started her career on Broadway in musicals such as Dreamgirls, and later became a successful recording artist. She is best known for originating the role of Effie in Dreamgirls and for her debut single, the Dreamgirls showstopper and Grammy Award-winning R&B hit, "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going".

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