· NAME: Christina Aguilera
· OCCUPATION: Songwriter, Singer, Television
Personality
· BIRTH DATE: December 18, 1980 (Age:
32)
· PLACE OF BIRTH: Staten Island, New
York
· Full Name: Christina Maria Aguilera
· Name :
Christina Aguilera
Singer-songwriter Christina Maria Aguilera was born on
December 18, 1980 in Staten Island, New York. Aguilera began her career as a
cast member on The All New Mickey Mouse Club. She rapidly rose to
stardom following the release of her hit single, "Genie In A Bottle,"
which earned her a Grammy Award for best new artist. Her other hit singles
include "What A Girl Wants," "Come on Over Baby,"
"Lady Marmalade" and the sexually charged "Dirty." In
recent years,
Christina Maria Aguilera was born on
December 18, 1980, in Staten Island, New York, to father Fausto Xavier Aguilera
and his wife, Shelly Loraine Fidler. Aguilera's early home life was troubled.
Her father, an Ecuadorian immigrant and sergeant in the U.S. Army, was an
abusive husband. It wasn't until Aguilera was 6 that her mother managed to end
the marriage and move her two daughters (Christina and her younger sister,
Rachel) to a new life in Rochester, Pennsylvania.
At an early age, Aguilera developed a deep love of music—a gift she no doubt inherited from her musical mother, an experienced violinist and pianist. By the time she was in elementary school, Aguilera's big voice had swept through a number of local talent shows, causing harsh envy from her schoolmates and even some parents. It became so bad that Aguilera's mother eventually made the decision to home-school her daughter.
Still, Aguilera continued to perform, and in 1990, she earned a spot on the nationally syndicated television program Star Search. There, the 9-year-old prodigy wowed audiences with a mesmerizing rendition of Etta Jame’s "A Sunday Kind of Love," placing second in the competition.
At an early age, Aguilera developed a deep love of music—a gift she no doubt inherited from her musical mother, an experienced violinist and pianist. By the time she was in elementary school, Aguilera's big voice had swept through a number of local talent shows, causing harsh envy from her schoolmates and even some parents. It became so bad that Aguilera's mother eventually made the decision to home-school her daughter.
Still, Aguilera continued to perform, and in 1990, she earned a spot on the nationally syndicated television program Star Search. There, the 9-year-old prodigy wowed audiences with a mesmerizing rendition of Etta Jame’s "A Sunday Kind of Love," placing second in the competition.
In 1993, Aguilera earned more
national attention when she landed a spot as a "Mouseketeer" on The
All New Mickey Mouse Club. Her fellow castmates were a collection of future
stars, including Justin Timberlake, Britny Spears, Rayan Gosling and Keri
Russel. Aguilera's time on the program lasted just two years before the
ambitious singer moved with her mother to Japan, to record the hit single
"All I Wanna Do" with Japanese pop icon Keizo Nakanishi. More success
soon followed.
In 1998, Aguilera was tapped to sing the song "Reflection" on the soundtrack for the Walt Disney film Mulan. The singer made her debut at the all-female concert festival Lilith Fair the following year, and signed with RCA Records. Also in 1999, she released her self-titled debut album, a successful record that would go on to sell more than 8 million copies, due in no small part to two big Billboard hits: "Genie in a Bottle" and the No. 1 single "What a Girl Wants." The album earned Aguilera the 2000 Grammy Award for best new artist.
With fellow Mouseketeers Spears and Timberlake also lighting up the charts with their respective music, Aguilera became one of the leading faces of a group of teen pop stars. But she wasn't comfortable maintaining the squeaky clean image this sort of role foisted upon her.
In 1998, Aguilera was tapped to sing the song "Reflection" on the soundtrack for the Walt Disney film Mulan. The singer made her debut at the all-female concert festival Lilith Fair the following year, and signed with RCA Records. Also in 1999, she released her self-titled debut album, a successful record that would go on to sell more than 8 million copies, due in no small part to two big Billboard hits: "Genie in a Bottle" and the No. 1 single "What a Girl Wants." The album earned Aguilera the 2000 Grammy Award for best new artist.
With fellow Mouseketeers Spears and Timberlake also lighting up the charts with their respective music, Aguilera became one of the leading faces of a group of teen pop stars. But she wasn't comfortable maintaining the squeaky clean image this sort of role foisted upon her.
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