AALIYAH BIOGRAPHY (1979–2001)
Singer, actress. Born Aaliyah Dana Haughton, upon Jan 16, 1979, in Brooklyn, New York. Raised in Detroit, Michigan, the immature thespian competed unsuccessfully upon the radio module Star Search at age 11. Later that same year, she achieved with R&B fable Gladys Knight, the former wife of her uncle and manager, Barry Hankerson, at a five-night mount in Las Vegas.
In 1994, at the age of 15, Aaliyah catapulted onto the R&B charts herself with her entrance album, Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number. Produced by the successful thespian R. (Robert) Kelly, the manuscript fast sole a million copies and in the future warranted gold standing formed mostly upon the success of dual strike singles, “Back and Forth” and “At Your Best (You Are Love).” Later that year, publication reports flush claiming that the moist teenager thespian had tied together the 27-year-old Kelly, though Aaliyah denied the kinship and the matrimony was reportedly annulled.
While a tyro in the dance module at Detroit High School for the Fine and Performing Arts (she graduated in 1997), Aaliyah expelled her sophomore album, One in a Million (1996). Helmed by the obvious cocktail writer Timbaland (Tim Mosely) and featuring swat actor Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott, One in a Million portrayed the 17-year-old thespian as a moist hip-hop chanteuse with a courage good over her years. The manuscript garnered auspicious reviews and sole dual million copies.
Aaliyah gained even some-more approval in 1997 when she available “Journey to the Past,” the Academy Award-nominated thesis strain to the charcterised underline Anastasia. She additionally achieved the strain for the Oscar radio programme in 1998. Her subsequent soundtrack effort, “Are You That Somebody?” for 1998′s Dr. Dolittle, starring Eddie Murphy, went to No. 1 upon the R&B charts, was a cocktail crossover hit, and warranted Aaliyah her initial Grammy Award nomination.
In 2000, Aaliyah done her behaving entrance in the warn movement strike Romeo Must Die, starring conflicting armed forces humanities star Jet Li in a Romeo and Juliet-inspired story set in modern-day Los Angeles. She was additionally an senior manager writer of the movie’s soundtrack and achieved the strike singular “Try Again,” that netted her a second Grammy assignment as good as dual MTV Music Video Awards for Best Female Video and Best Video From a Film.
Her third album, Aaliyah, was expelled in Jul 2001 and reached No. 2 upon the Billboard manuscript chart. Also in 2001, she played the pretension purpose in Queen of the Damned, formed upon the bestselling novel by Anne Rice and set for recover in 2002. She scored a vital cast of characters manoeuvre when she sealed to crop up in dual arriving sequels to the blockbuster sci-fi thriller The Matrix, starring Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne.
Tragically, Aaliyah was killed upon Aug 25, 2001, when a tiny Cessna newcomer craft carrying the thespian and her video organisation crashed and detonate in to abandon before long after taking flight from Abaco Island in the Bahamas, where they had only finished work upon a video. The craft was headed for Miami, Florida. Aaliyah and 7 alternative people, together with the pilot, were believed to have died instantly, whilst a ninth newcomer died after at a Bahamian hospital. Aaliyah was twenty-two years aged at the time of her death. She is survived by her parents, Diane and Michael Haughton, and an comparison brother, Rashaad.
