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Christina Aguilera Biography
Born on December 18, 1980 as Christina Maria Aguilera in Staten Island, New York, this gorgeous petite is an American pop/R&B singer and songwriter of Irish and Spanish ancestry. Christina lived with her young sister Rachel and both her parents until she was seven, but moved to Rochester, Pennsylvania with her grandmother after her parents divorced.
Christina Aguilera knew what she wanted as a child. She started to compete at local singing competitions and talent shows at an early age, where she was known as “the little girl with a big voice”. Due to her popularity, Christina’s peers bullied her at school and came to a point wherein their house was vandalized and their car’s tires slashed. The family eventually left Rochester and moved to a nearby town in Wexford, where they made Christina’s talent unknown to the public.
In March 1990, Christina entered the Star Search, but lost. When she returned home, Christina was invited to appear on the Wake Up with Larry Richert show to perform Etta James’ “A Sunday Kind of Love”, which she sang in Star Search. Since then, Aguilera became the yearly singer of the Star-Spangled Banner before hockey, football and baseball games in Pittsburgh.
Disney and Pop Music
In 1993, Christina Aguilera joined the Disney Channel’s, “The New Mickey Mouse Club” with Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Keri Russell and Ryan Gosling, but the show was canceled after a year of her stay. By the age of 14 years, Aguilera released her first song, “All I Wanna Do” with Japanese singer Keizo Nakanishi.
1998 was probably the year Christina became a global success when Disney hired her to record a song for Mulan called “Reflection”, which earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination and a record deal with RCA Records. A year later, Aguilera’s self-titled debut album was released and topped the Billboard 200, sold 8 million copies in the U.S. alone and reached worldwide fame when over 15 millions copies were sold. The album “Christina Aguilera” included hot singles like “What a Girl Wants”, “Come on Over Baby”, “I Turn to You” and “Genie in a Bottle”. She received an award for Best New Artist at the 2000 Grammys.
By late 2000, Aguilera released her first Spanish album “Mi Reflejo” with translated versions of her songs from the English debut album and new Spanish tracks, which led to a Latin Grammy Award and 3 million copies sold worldwide. Christina also released a Christmas album entitled, “My Kind of Christmas”.
Fame and talent was building up in Christina Aguilera’s life in 2001 when Lil’ Kim, Pink, Mya and Aguilera were handpicked to remake the 1975 single, “Lady Marmalade” for the Moulin Rouge soundtrack. She then experienced a loss – as Christina battled in court to terminate her contract with then-manager Steve Kurtz. She replaced him for Irving Azoff.
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