Artist: Christina Aguilera Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop
Pop
Dance: Pop
Rock: Pop-Rock
Discography:
Back to Basics Year: 2006
Tracks: 22
The Voice Within Year: 2003
Tracks: 2
My Reflection Year: 2003
Tracks: 23
Fighter Year: 2003
Tracks: 2
Can't Hold Us Down Year: 2003
Tracks: 4
Stripped Year: 2002
Tracks: 20
Nobody Wants To Be Lonely (Single) Year: 2001
Tracks: 3
Nobody Wants To Be Lonely Year: 2001
Tracks: 3
Lady Marmalade (Single) Year: 2001
Tracks: 4
My Kind Of Christmas Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
Mi Reflejo Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
Christina Aguilera Year: 2000
Tracks: 6
Christina Aguilera Year: 1999
Tracks: 20
Just Be Free Year:
Tracks: 12
Christina Aguilera (Bonus CD) Year:
Tracks: 6
After Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera was the to the highest degree popular female isaac Merrit Singer of the late-'90s teenager pop revival meeting. Unlike many of her generation, Aguilera was a technically skilled isaac Bashevis Singer with a really hefty voice, belting out her uptempo saltation numbers and ballads with a diva's panache. Born Christina Maria Aguilera on December 18, 1980, on Staten Island, her parents were of Irish and Ecuadorian fund and her father's military career meant the syndicate stirred rather a bit during her childhood. They eventually settled in Pittsburgh, PA, where Aguilera began performing in endowment shows at old age six, with considerable success. She appeared on
Star Search in 1988 (though she didn't win) and in 1992 united the cast of the Disney Channel's
The New Mickey Mouse Club, which also included Spears, succeeding *NSYNC members Justin Timberlake and JC Chasez, and
Felicitousness star Keri Russell.
Later on two years, Aguilera touched to Japan, where she recorded the hit duet "All I Wanna Do" with kill star Keizo Nakanishi. Returning to the U.S. in 1998, Aguilera recorded the song "Reflexion" for Disney's
Mulan; her carrying into action helped bring in her a record deal with RCA. Her self-titled debut album was released in the summertime of 1999, and with teen-oriented dance-pop all the rage, the lead single "Djinny in a Bottle" shooter to the top of the charts for five weeks; the album too collide with number one on its way to gross revenue of over octad 1000000 copies in the U.S. only. The followup, "What a Girl Wants," was the number one number unitary individual of the twelvemonth 2000 and Aguilera consolidated her near-instant stardom by performing at the White House Christmas gala and the Super Bowl halftime demonstrate, and winning a Grammy for Best New Artist. Further hits followed in "I Turn to You" and another number ane, "Occur on Over Baby (All I Want Is You)."
In September 2000, seeking a place in that year's Latin pop boom, the part-Ecuadorian Aguilera recorded a Spanish-language album called
Mi Reflejo, encyclopedism the lyrics phonetically since she didn't speak Spanish. It was followed promptly by the holiday record album
My Kind of Christmas; both sold extremely well, a testament to Aguilera's popularity. In the spring of 2001, Aguilera was featured -- along with Pink, Mya, and Lil' Kim -- on the chart-topping blockbuster remake of Patti LaBelle's "Madam Marmalade" featured on the
Moulin Rouge soundtrack. Aguilera was by right away a habitue at medicine industry awards shows; as she enjoyed her celebrity, a assemblage of older demos -- recorded when she was 14 and 15 -- was released under the claim
Simply Be Free, despite Aguilera's vehement objections.
Aguilera attempted to discourage the mass media's expectations when she issued her second studio album in return 2002.
Stripped, which appeared in October on RCA, was promptly criticized for its adult yet positive approach. Aguilera's count had departed from calendered to mealy. She appeared bare-breasted on the cover of the record album and went nude for a come down way out of Rolling Stone. Debut individual "Dirrty" revealed her new sexual power and became a chart smash, piece "Beautiful" showed her softer side. For her adjacent disc, notwithstanding, Aguilera split from producer Scott Storch and went to work with DJ Premier and Linda Perry, among others, for the 2006
Back to Basics, which debuted at routine one on the Billboard two hundred. The album, a two-disc put that explored her influences, primarily '20s, '30s, and '40s jazz and blues in the flair of Etta James or Billie Holiday, depicted a more grow -- so far at the same time provocative -- vocalist. The popular unmarried "Ain't No Other Man" north Korean won Aguilera the twenty-five percent Grammy Award of her career, and she dog-tired often of the following twelvemonth on the route, releasing the
Plump for to Basics: Live and Down Under concert DVD to document the tour in late 2007.
