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Christina Maria Aguilera was born on December 18, 1980, in Staten
Island, New York. Her parents divorced when she was young and she lived
with her mother, although they moved around quite a bit. Christina's
goal almost since birth was to be a singer, and at age 12 she was
invited to audition for
"MMC"
(1989). She wound up getting the part and stayed there for a few years,
until the show ended. In 1999 she had her breakthrough hit, "Genie in a
Bottle". Since then she's made millions of fans, sold millions of
records and has won many
awards,
including a Grammy for best new female artist. She has even made a
Latin album and will be working on a second one. A Christmas album has
also been released.
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Spouse
Trade Mark
Known for her powerful voice and her ability to sing acapella.
Wears bright blue contact lenses, even though her eyes are already naturally blue (albeit a darker blue).
Trivia
Won a Grammy for "Best New Artist" in February 2000.
Made the Top 20 in FHM Magazine's 100 Sexiest Women. [2001]
Announced
that she will star in TV commercials for Coke, which were slated to
appear in the United States in May 2001 and continue throughout the
summer. The Coke campaign also offered a $1,000,000 grand prize for a
sweepstakes as well as the opportunity to meet the pop princess and
hang out with her during a video taping. Christina previously starred
in commercials for Coke which aired solely in Latin America. The ads
were such a success that Coca-Cola decided to run new ads featuring
Christina Aguilera in the U.S. [March 2001]
Attended North Allegheny High School up until the 9th grade in Wexford, a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Sued
Warlock Records, Platinum Recording Group and producers Robert Allecca
and Michael Brown to prevent them from releasing "Just Be Free", a demo
compilation she recorded when she was just 14 years old. [May 2001]
Won
the world's best selling Latin female artist at the World Music Awards.
Christina also performed her #1 world-wide smash hit "Nobody wants to
be lonely" with
Ricky Martin at the ceremony. [2001]
Formerly dated backup dancer
Jorge Santos. Christina co-wrote the songs "Infatuation" and "Loving Me 4 Me" about the relationship.
For two seasons, Christina appeared on
"MMC" (1989) which furthered her desire to record an album before she graduated from high school.
Nominated for 6 MTV Video Music Awards. So far in her career she has received 11 nominations. [July 2001]
In
1994, several labels, including RCA, passed on the opportunity to sign
Christina Aguilera. Undaunted, she left for Japan to jump-start her
career on distant shores.
With co-performers
Kimberly 'Lil' Kim' Jones,
won two awards at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards for "Lady Marmalade."
One was for the prestigious 'Best Video Of The Year' award and the
other for the 'Best Song From A Movie Soundtrack' award (Moulin Rouge).
Host of the second annual Latin Grammy awards show. [September 2001]
Co-hosted the 2001 Radio Music Awards in Las Vegas with
Ricky Martin. [October 26, 2001]
Voice range is four octaves.
After
wowing the crowd at a Pittsburgh charity banquet, 11-year-old Christina
landed offers to sing the national anthem for the Penguins, Pirates,
and Steelers.
Her contract requests she gets various health foods
and Flintstones chewable vitamins. Also soft drinks such as Coca Cola
and Nesquik but not Pepsi or anything diet. [2000]
Although she is half-Ecuadoran and has released a Spanish album, she is not fluent in Spanish.
Attended Marshall Middle School in Wexford, Pennsylvania.
Won
the 2002 Grammy (best collaboration) with Lil' Kim, Mya, & Pink for
her work in the 'Moulin Rouge' song 'Lady Marmalade'.
Appeared in the musical "The Pussycat Dolls".
Co-wrote fourteen songs on her latest album, "Stripped".
Attended Rochester Area Elementary School in Rochester, Pennsylvania.
Has
4 siblings: a younger half-brother Michael (born 1996), step-brother
Casey, younger sister Rachel (born 1986) and step-sister Stephanie.
Above all sports, she prefers baseball and volleyball.
Was
named Godmother, "Madrina", for the second generation of students on
the Mexican TV reality-talent show called, "La Academia".
Her parents met while attending college at Brigham Young University in Utah.
Has two papillon dogs, Chewy and Stinky.
Nominated
for 4 MTV Video Music Awards for her "Dirrty" video including, Best
Female Video, Best Dance Video, Best Pop Video and Best Choreography in
a Video.
Has her own shoe line, which is manufactured by ES
Orginals. The shoe box that has her picture on it, can be used as a CD
holder or picture frame.
Step-dad is: Jim Kearns
Is #1 on Maxim's Hot 100 of 2003.
Is the host of MTV's 2003 Europe Music Awards.
Her parents were married in the LDS Temple in Washington D.C.
At 11, she was the youngest person to perform the national anthem at a major sporting event at that time
Nominated
for five 2003 Grammys, Song of the Year, "Beautiful", Best Female Pop
Vocal Performance, "Beautiful", Best Pop Collaberation with Vocal,
"Can't Hold Us Down" (with Lil'Kim), Best Pop Vocal Album, "Stripped"
and Best Remixed Recording, "Beautiful"(Peter Rauhofer, Remixer.)
Nominated
for five 2004 Grammys, Song of the Year, "Beautiful", Best Female Pop
Vocal Performance, "Beautiful", Best Pop Collaberation with Vocal,
"Can't Hold Us Down" (w/ Lil'Kim), Best Pop Vocal Album, "Stripped" and
Best Remixed Recording, "Beautiful" (Peter Rauhofer, Remixer.)
Has a Cadillac SUV and a Range Rover.
Nominated for the 2004 Echo Awards Best International Female.
Her "Stripped" tour with
Justin Timberlake came in first in the Rolling Stone 2003 Readers' Poll for Best Tour.
Received 3 BRIT Award nominations, Best International Female Solo Artist, Best International Album, and Best Pop.
Has joined forces with Fetish, the cosmetic line to come out with a line of her own.
Won the 2004 Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, with her song, "Beautiful".
Her much talked about, ground-breaking, record-setting video "Dirrty" cost an estimated $5 million dollars to make.
In the year 2003 she made an estimated $29.7 million in album sales and endorsement campaigns.
Her
video, Fighter, has six nominations for the 2004 Music Video Production
Association awards for best pop video, best hair and best makeup, best
cinematography, best styling and best direction of a female artist.
She is #3 on Maxim's Hot 100 List for 2004.
Cancelled her North American summer tour with,
Chingy, due to strained vocal cords. [2004]
Released an album, "Stripped", in October 2002. The first single from her album was released in mid-September.
One of Teen Peoples 25 Hottest Under 25 (2004).
She was named Glamour's very first Woman of the Year (2004).
She has four tattoos; on the back of her neck - "Xtina", on her left waist, on her left wrist and on her arm - "Te Amo Siempre".
Her
infamous satin thong from her cover of a Maxim Magazine, was fetched by
a lucky bidder on ebay for $1,542.69. The treasured thong was obtained
from BBC Radio 1 personality Scott Mills, who got them from a pal at
Maxim, according to the online description. The winner got more than
the thong that once adorned the backside of Aguilera. The total ebay
deal incuded a bottle of the pool water, a note from Mills, a note from
a BBC producer, a letter from Maxim that included pointers from
Aguilera and a copy of the racy Magazine itself.
Ranked #14 on VH1's The 50 Geatest Women of the Video Era.
Stated in a recent interview that she had all her piercings removed with the exception of the one in her right nipple. [2004]
She
has asked the US Patent and Trademark Office to approve over 450 items.
Among the list are lingerie, crayons, skiwear, ropes and handcuffs.
Rolling Stone Magazine wrote that her video, Dirrty, is the most played music video of all time.
Her mom, Shelly Kearns, was voted #2 for best showbiz mom, according to an In Touch magazine poll. She was out voted by
Justin Timberlake's mother, Lynn Harless.
On
21 December 2003, she visited and donated $200,000 to the Women's
Center and Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh in Oakland, a domestic abuse
shelter.
Recorded a remake of the disco classic "Carwash" with 'Missy 'Misdemeanor' Elliott'.
Recorded a duet with
Nelly of "Tilt Ya Head Back".
Ranked #13 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World" (2002).
She
is a spokesperson for Fetish (cosmetics), Coca-cola, Versace,
Sketchers, MAC-cosmetics, Virgin-mobile, Mercedes, Declare
Yourself.com, Xpose (perfume)
Graduated from North Allegheny High School in Wexford, Pennsylvania (1999)
Attended Marshall Middle School in Wexford, Pennslyvania.
Is mentioned in
Eminem's song "The real Slim Shady" and is spoofed in the song's music video
Her last name is Spanish for "Eyrie".
150,000 FHM Music TV fans decided that "Dirrty" is the sexiest video of all time (2005).
Us Weekly Young Hollywood Hot 20 list (2005).
She's an NPC (non playable character) in The Sims: Superstar, an expansion pack for The Sims.
Named #16 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2005 list.
Husband
Jordan Bratman asked for Christina's hand in marriage with a 5-carat diamond and platinum Stephen Webster ring.
Her
father Fausto Xavier Aguilera is of Ecuadoran (Spanish and Native
American) descent and her mother Shelly Loraine Fidler is of German
descent on her father's side and of Irish, Welsh and Dutch descent on
her mother's.
Named #27 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005" special supplement. (2005)
Was featured as #8 in Maxim Magazine's "Hot 100 of 2002" supplement. (2002)
Her father Fausto was an Ecuador-born U.S. army sergeant, who split from her mom Shelly when Christina was 6.
Named #37 in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006" supplement. (2006).
Ranked #62 on VH1's 100 Sexiest Artists.
Has appeared on every one of Maxim magazine's Hot 100 of the year lists.
Ranked #4 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2007 list.
Gave birth to her first child down the hall from
Nicole Richie who was also giving birth to her child.
Gave birth to a baby boy on January 12th, 2008 at 10.05 pm. Christina and her husband, music executive
Jordan Bratman, named the boy Max Liron Bratman. Max was 20.5 inches long and weighed in at 6 lbs., 2 oz.
Lived in Japan for three years before she starred on the Mickey Mouse Club.
In January 2008, she sold the first photos of her newborn Max for $1,500,000.
Has sold over 20 million records since her first record, self-titled, Christina Aguilera, came out in August 24, 1999. [2008]
Ranked #8 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2008 list.
Was offered the role of Stephanie Necrophuros in
Nine (2009), but turned it down due to scheduling conflicts with her upcoming album recording.
Kate Hudson was cast instead.
Personal Quotes
There is no truth to the rumors that we hate each other. I have no ill feeling for [
Britney Spears]
and vice versa. I am proud of all the achievements she has made in her
career, she is a very hard-working person. I have nothing but love for
her.
[about
Eminem's
lyrics in "The Real Slim Shady" which contained sexual references about
her] It's disgusting and offensive and above all it's not true.
[about singing the remake of "Lady Marmalade" with
Pink,
Mya and 'Kimberly 'Lil' Kim' Jones'.] It's the closest I ever got to being in a girl group.
I like to be edgy, I like to be different. I'm a little bit of rebel.
[after winning an MTV
Award for the video "Lady Marmalade, shared with singers
Mya,
Pink and 'Kimberly 'Lil' Kim' Jones'] The big hair paid off!
It's
funny how society places such strict standards upon young blonde
females. We're supposed to play the clean-cut view the public wants of
us. But I am not your little cookie-cutter virgin.
It's human nature to have a sexual side.
I
think that whatever size or shape body you have, it's important to
embrace it and get down! The female body is something that's so
beautiful. I wish women would be proud of their bodies and not dis
other women for being proud of theirs!
You can take it or leave it, but I'm not going to change, not for anyone.
It's
been quite a roller-coaster ride, But I think I've grown and learned a
lot about myself. In this business, it's often all about hype, record
sales, and a crazy schedule of traveling, performances, and it can be
easy to get lost in all that. But for me, the greatest thing is being
able to interact with fans and touch peoples' lives. I know that's a
greater accomplishment than selling records. For that I give thanks. I
simply love the job I'm doing.
Hold your head high and sway your hips when you walk!
Power is making a statement about who you are.
My
parents divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to
mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue
my dreams that I woundn't necessarily have had otherwise.
I have
grown up now and have no need to dress like that anymore. I want my
music to speak for me rather than the dress or lack of dresses I wore.
Confidence is the hugest thing - once you exude that, guys catch on.
[pn
why she wrote the song "I'm OK", which is her take on her father Fausto
Aguilera's abusive behavior before her parents separated] It is such a
hush-hush topic because it happens in the home. I definitely wrote that
song not to badmouth him at all, but one, for a healing process for
myself, and two, to give people hope or a voice to relate to. To know
that you can get through it and that it will be OK.
Be a strong female - don't be afraid of the flack that goes along with that.
Obviously, all the positives are very flattering and being compared to [
Mariah Carey], and I get a lot of [
Britney Spears]
comparisons as well, and she's extremely talented, but we are two
different artists and even when I'm doing radio interviews and stuff
they want to ask me very personal questions about her and you have to
be a little protective of yourself and what you say because there are
so many people wanting to get you to say things and pulling you in so
many directions.
My inspiration, I've had many, again, starting with
Julie Andrews at a young age. But, growing up, I sang
Whitney Houston songs in talent shows. But, when I discovered
Mariah Carey
and "Vision Of Love", that was a breath of fresh air and I adored her
from that moment on and idolized her. It's really amazing that in
articles I've been compared to her. It's truly unbelievable because,
whenever I was younger, I would ask my mom, "Do you think I'll ever be
as big and sing as well as Mariah Carey?" And now that it has happened,
my mom says, "I knew it would happen".
I wouldn't feel comfortable wearing clothes that covered my entire body.
[on
her childhood] I never really had this father figure, which never
bothered me. I had my mom, I had people that did love me and care for
me.
[on not having her father to walk her down the aisle at her
wedding] I'm a performer. I can totally walk myself down the aisle. I
just realized it would be really nice to have that male protector in
your life, to have felt that your entire life, and to have that one
person give you away to the next man that's going to take care of you.
[on
having kids with her husband of one year, Jordan Bratman] In five years
time I'd probably like to start thinking about a child.
Where Are They Now
(May 2003) Is on tour with
Justin Timberlake for their 2003 "Justified- Stripped Tour"
(October 2003) touring her latest album "Stripped", in Europe, Australia,and Japan
(May 2004) Cancelled her North American summer tour with,
Chingy, due to strained vocal cords.
(August 2005) In the studio working on her fourth album!
(August 2006) Released her third, highly-anticipated album, 'Back to Basics' on August 15th.
(August 2008) Working on her fourth studio album.
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