Emerging at the height of the Y2K teen pop explosion, Mandy Moore made the leap from adolescent idol to mature pop star. Moore managed to land a pair of hits between 1999 and 2000 but she stayed on the margins of the Disney-driven phenomenon. Moore's leading role in the 2002 romantic drama A Walk to Remember opened up a parallel career path to her recording career. She continued to concentrate on music during the 2000s, broadening and deepening her original material on 2007's Wild Hope and 2009's Amanda Leigh, a pair of records that successfully transitioned her into the realm of adult alternative music. Moore eventually landed a role on the television drama This Is Us, for which she snared an Emmy nomination. On the heels of her success, she signed to Verve Forecast for 2020's Silver Landings, a nuanced and sophisticated comeback album that found its match in 2022's In Real Life. Wikipedia
Emerging at the height of the Y2K teen pop explosion, Mandy Moore made the leap from adolescent idol to mature pop star. Moore managed to land a pair of hits between...