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'Idol' Fantasia Starting Salon Chain
Salons To Raise Funds For Home For Single Mothers
POSTED: 11:03 am PDT August 28,
2006
UPDATED: 12:13 pm PDT August 28,
2006
CONCORD, N.C. -- Fantasia Barrino is getting into the beauty business.The "American Idol" winner has teamed up with Carolina Panthers safety Mike Minter to open a chain of beauty salons to fund a home to help single mothers.The driving force behind the project is Minter's sister, Rosalind Beaty.Beaty said that she hopes to open franchises that will channel their profits to a faith-based, nonprofit residential home for single mothers.
The first shop is due to open this fall in Concord under the name Imaj Salon and Spa.Barrino won Season 3 of "American Idol" in 2004.She recently played herself in the Lifetime cable movie "Life is Not a Fairy Tale."The film was inspired by her autobiography about dropping out of high school and becoming an unwed mother at 17.
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