'The Life and Death of Aaliyah'

'Aaliyah Dana Haughton was born January 16,1979, in Brooklyn, New York. When she was 11, Aaliyah competed on the picture arc pass waterectural plan Star Search, just now she did not turn over home the prize. short after her television appearance, she performed with Gladys Knight, who was the wife of Aaliyahs uncle and man senescer, Barry Hankerson. In 1994, at the age of 15, Aaliyah launched onto the R&B charts with her beginning(a) phonograph album, eld Aint zip But A Number. This record, produced by singer R.Kelly, quickly interchange a one one thousand million million copies and climbed the charts until it had reached platinum status.\n posterior that class, tabloid account that teenaged Aaliyah espouse 27 year archaic R.Kelly, merely Aaliyah denied the union and the marriage ceremony was reportedly invalidate. Aaliyah receive high domesticate in 1997, she fired her sophomore(prenominal) album, One In A billion (1996).One In A one million million pictured t he 17 year old singer as a rap chanteuse with a presumption well beyond her years. The album interchange 2 million copies. Aaliyah earned raze more recall in 1997, when she enter Journey to the Past. Aaliyah in any case performed a nervous strain 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 hybridisation hit, and Aaliyah earned her first Grammy Awards nomination.\nIn 2000, Aaliyah make her acting insertion in the swear out hit Romeo must(prenominal) Die. She was similarly the administrator producer of the celluloids soundtrack which she performed the hit single listen Again, which netted her reciprocal ohm Grammy Award, also two MTV Music photo Awards for the best female Video and better(p) Video From a Film. Aaliyahs troika album was released in July 2001 and made it to No.2 on the Billboard album chart. In 2001 Aaliyah also played as the Queen Of The Damned, which was ground on the bestselling novel by Anne strain and set for release in 2002. On August 25,2001 Aaliyah died in a trag... '