The Life and Death of Aaliyah

Aaliyah Dana Haughton was born January 16,1979, in Brooklyn, New York. When she was 11, Aaliyah competed on the boob tube program Star Search, still she did not take fireside the prize. Soon after her television set appearance, she performed with Gladys Knight, who was the wife of Aaliyahs uncle and manager, Barry Hankerson. In 1994, at the age of 15, Aaliyah launched onto the R&B charts with her first record record album, Age Aint Nothing But A Number. This record, produced by singer R.Kelly, apace s w come toe-haired a trillion copies and climbed the charts until it had reached platinum status.\nLater that year, piece of paper reported that teenaged Aaliyah marital 27 year obsolescent R.Kelly, but Aaliyah denied the union and the spousal relationship was reportedly invalidate. Aaliyah graduated graduate(prenominal) school in 1997, she released her soph album, One In A Million (1996).One In A Million envision the 17 year old singer as a Hip-Hop chanteuse with a self-rel iance well beyond her years. The album sold two billion copies. Aaliyah earned even more than remembrance in 1997, when she save Journey to the Past. Aaliyah similarly performed a song for the Oscar telecast in 1998. One of Aaliyahs songs (Are You That soul?) in the 1998s, Dr.Dolittle,starring Eddie Murphy, went to number 1 on the R&B charts, was a pop intersection hit, and Aaliyah earned her first Grammy Awards nomination.\nIn 2000, Aaliyah made her acting innovate in the action hit Romeo Must Die. She was also the executive director producer of the movies soundtrack which she performed the hit single get wind Again, which netted her second Grammy Award, also two MTV Music pictorial matter Awards for the best female characterisation and Best Video From a Film. Aaliyahs third album was released in July 2001 and made it to No.2 on the Billboard album chart. In 2001 Aaliyah also played as the Queen Of The Damned, which was based on the bestselling novel by Anne rice and set for release in 2002. On August 25,2001 Aaliyah died in a trag...