When Aaliyah was five years old, her family moved to Detroit, Michigan, where she was raised along with her older brother, Rashad.
She started performing at weddings, church choir, and charity events. Aaliyah's mother enrolled her in voice lessons at an early age. Her name is the feminine form of the Arabic " Ali", meaning "highest, most exalted one, the best." Aaliyah was fond of her name, calling it "beautiful" and saying she was "very proud of it" and strove to live up to her name every day.
Her accolades include three American Music Awards and two MTV VMAs, along with five Grammy Award nominations.Īaliyah Dana Haughton was born on January 16, 1979, in Brooklyn, New York, the younger child of Diane and Michael "Miguel" Haughton, a warehouse worker. Billboard lists her as the tenth most successful female R&B artist of the past 25 years, and the 27th most successful in history. She has sold 8.1 million albums in the US and an estimated 24 to 32 million albums worldwide. In the decades since her death, Aaliyah's music has continued to achieve commercial success, aided by several posthumous releases. Aaliyah's family later filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the aircraft's operator, Blackhawk International Airways, which was settled out of court. The pilot was later found to have traces of cocaine and alcohol in his body and was not qualified to fly the aircraft designated for the flight. On August 25, 2001, Aaliyah was killed in an airplane accident in the Bahamas at the age of 22 along with eight other passengers when the overloaded aircraft she was traveling in crashed shortly after takeoff. After completing Romeo Must Die, Aaliyah filmed her role in Queen of the Damned, and released, in 2001, her third and final album Aaliyah, which topped the Billboard 200. The song topped the Billboard Hot 100 solely on airplay, making Aaliyah the first artist in Billboard history to achieve this goal. She contributed to the film's soundtrack, which spawned the single " Try Again". In 2000, Aaliyah appeared in her first film, Romeo Must Die. After allegations of an illegal marriage with Kelly, Aaliyah ended her contract with Jive and signed with Atlantic Records.Īaliyah worked with record producers Timbaland and Missy Elliott for her second album, One in a Million, which sold three million copies in the United States and more than eight million copies worldwide. The album sold three million copies in the United States and was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Kelly, who became her mentor, as well as lead songwriter and producer of her debut album, Age Ain't Nothing but a Number.
At the age of 12, Aaliyah signed with Jive Records and her uncle Barry Hankerson's Blackground Records. She has been credited for helping to redefine contemporary R&B, pop and hip hop, earning her the nicknames the "Princess of R&B" and "Queen of Urban Pop".īorn in Brooklyn but raised in Detroit, she first gained recognition at the age of 10, when she appeared on the television show Star Search and performed in concert alongside Gladys Knight. S-Recommended for senior high school students.Aaliyah Dana Haughton ( / ɑː ˈ l iː ə/ ah- LEE-ə January 16, 1979 – August 25, 2001) was an American singer and actress. Overnight Sensation is a great addition to any library and a good choice for teens who like strong female characters and storylines a bit off the beaten path. Cook doesn't patronize her audience, presenting complex characters and a fully fleshed out storyline. This novel fits in nicely between serious, issue-laden books and lighter fare. Surrounded by a cast of other characters who show more depth than their first impressions make, the story flourishes. Spirited and likeable, she comes across as a real girl dealing with believable issues.
Slow to start, this story really takes off once Trace's personality is revealed. What will happen to her various relationships once she leaves California and heads to Connecticut for school? And more importantly, how will she live through the sudden fame a not-so-flattering picture of her near-naked butt brings? Without her father or her boyfriend to hang out with, Trace makes a new friend who turns out to be not at all who Trace thought she was. Zander, who is headed to NYU to be a film major, uses their stay as an opportunity to learn about television production. Even worse, a reality show about Kandy is being filmed on her father's property. Her father isn't able to spend every second bonding with Trish because he's consumed with managing the career of Kandy Cane, the hottest pop starlet, who Trace finds abhorrent. When she and her boyfriend Zander arrive, Trace realizes that the trip she dreamed about doesn't exactly match up to the reality. SĪfter graduating from high school, Trace heads out to California to spend some quality time with her formerly estranged father.
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