The Life and Death of Aaliyah

Aaliyah Dana Haughton was born January 16,1979, in Brooklyn, modernistic York. When she was 11, Aaliyah competed on the television arc tallyectural plan Star Search, unless she did non take home the prize. shortly after her television appearance, she performed with Gladys Knight, who was the married woman of Aaliyahs uncle and man eonr, Barry Hankerson. In 1994, at the age of 15, Aaliyah launched onto the R&B charts with her origin album, Age Aint null But A Number. This record, produced by vocalizer R.Kelly, quickly change a million copies and climbed the charts until it had reached platinum status.\nLater that year, tabloid inform that teenaged Aaliyah married 27 year old R.Kelly, but Aaliyah denied the union and the marriage was reportedly invalidate. Aaliyah graduated high check in 1997, she released her sophomore album, 1 In A gazillion (1996). angiotensin-converting enzyme In A Million pictured the 17 year old singer as a belt chanteuse with a self-confidence ri se up beyond her years. The album sell devil million copies. Aaliyah get even more memorialisation in 1997, when she recorded transit to the Past. Aaliyah excessively performed a melodic phrase for the Oscar telecast in 1998. One of Aaliyahs songs (Are You That Somebody?) in the 1998s, Dr.Dolittle,starring Eddie Murphy, went to number 1 on the R&B charts, was a pop crossover hit, and Aaliyah bring in her first Grammy Awards nomination.\nIn 2000, Aaliyah make her acting debut in the action hit Romeo essential Die. She was also the executive maker of the movies soundtrack which she performed the hit single Try Again, which profit her second Grammy Award, also two MTV Music video Awards for the lift out female Video and trounce Video From a Film. Aaliyahs third album was released in July 2001 and made it to No.2 on the hoarding album chart. In 2001 Aaliyah also played as the pouf Of The Damned, which was based on the bestselling refreshing by Anne Rice and strike off fo r release in 2002. On August 25,2001 Aaliyah died in a trag...