Aaliyah could’ve been standing still as one of the most known pillars of R&B if she’s alive today. The untimely demise of this very talented artist has been so infected it brought the rise of women dominating a man-saturated genre. Truthfully, the thick voice, the always-on-beat dance moves and the sheer passion in singing made Aaliyah a superstar of her generation.
Despite the fact that she’s been missing since 2001, the presence and musical mark that Aaliyah has left to serve as inspiration to a various lot of rising stars and her tracks are far well-remembered as sound tracks of modern relationships, young love and heart-wrenching separations.
There are no words to explain how badly the current music industry needs an Aaliyah right now and all we can do is to succumb to the truth that she’s never coming back and her legacy is all that we can hold on to.
Born Aaliyah Dana Haughton in the concrete jungle that is New York City in January 1979, Aaliyah have received the dubbing of being the Princess of R&B. While she also submerged herself into being into pop and hip hop, it is in R&B that she managed to keep the luster of her music career shining through.
Starting out on the early age of 12, the singer has been exposed to the bloodbath of the music arena through her uncle Barry Hankerson via Jive Records. Destiny has moved mysteriously and have allowed Aaliyah to bump with R. Kelly, which served as her mentor slash producer to ignite her music venture at the age of 14 via highest-selling album Age am not Nothing But a Number.
Easily, Aaliyah’s debut album careened to the lists of US and UK Billboard Charts with over four million copies sold in just a span of weeks. Redefining the path that the R&B had taken during the 1990s, Aaliyah’s first album had been a breath of fresh air with the tracks I’m so into You and At Your Best carrying the Aaliyah’s name to fame effortlessly.
Aaliyah’s smart and strong connections have truly helped her in cementing her name in the industry as she collaborated with an equally famous music conglomerate Atlantic Records with Missy Elliott and Timbaland is supporting her career.
Her second album, One In A Million, is such an effective follow-up as it’s been patronized well and great by the general music audience amounting to eight million copies purchased worldwide.
This is the time of Aaliyah’s career that her name is a staple to every music fast and list and this very album yielded famous songs such as Hot Like Fire, 4 Page Letter and If Your Girl Only Knew, all of which placing a respectable rank on US Billboard Hot 100.
Aaliyah also managed to penetrate the Hollywood scene with the movie Romeo Must Die alongside the action superstar Jet Li and this is where Try Again was born and released. The last known album that Aaliyah has released is her self-titled compilation in July 2001.
The heat’s on singing have been much needed as Aaliyah somewhat focused on being onscreen via couple of movie stunts and leads such as that on Queen of the Damned.
The Princess of R&B have been praised and recognized by numerous award-giving bodies such as Billboard Music Awards (Top R&B Single of the Year, Top Hip Hop/R&B Singer of the Year, Top Hip-Hop/R&B Single Airplay Single of the Year), several nominations from Grammy Awards, wins from the MTV Video Music Awards (Best Female Video, Best Video From Film, Best R&B Video), Rolling Stone’s Best R&B Album in 2001 and 2002 World’s Best Selling Female R&B Artist Of The Year for World Music Awards.
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