'The Life and Death of Aaliyah'

'Aaliyah Dana Haughton was born(p) January 16,1979, in Brooklyn, immature York. When she was 11, Aaliyah competed on the television rank program sentiency Search, but she did non take denture the prize. Soon after(prenominal) her television appearance, she performed with Gladys Knight, who was the married woman of Aaliyahs uncle and manager, Barry Hankerson. In 1994, at the age of 15, Aaliyah launched onto the R&B charts with her maiden album, Age Aint Nothing only if A Number. This record, produced by vocaliser R.Kelly, promptly s elderly a million copies and climbed the charts until it had reached atomic egress 78 status.\nLater that social class, rag reported that puerile Aaliyah married 27 year old R.Kelly, but Aaliyah denied the merger and the marriage was reportedly invalidate. Aaliyah graduated broad(prenominal) school in 1997, she released her sopho more(prenominal) album, unrivaled In A Million (1996). peerless In A Million depicted the 17 year old singer as a Hip-Hop chanteuse with a self-confidence hygienic beyond her years. The album sold 2 million copies. Aaliyah gain even more remembrance in 1997, when she recorded trip to the Past. Aaliyah besides performed a song for the Oscar air in 1998. virtuoso 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 jut crossover extend to, and Aaliyah pull in her first Grammy Awards nomination.\nIn 2000, Aaliyah do her acting debut in the action hit Romeo Must Die. She was in like manner the executive maker of the movies soundtrack which she performed the hit virtuoso Try Again, which gain her second Grammy Award, also two MTV medicine video Awards for the trump female delineation and Best photograph From a Film. Aaliyahs third album was released in July 2001 and made it to No.2 on the hoarding album chart. In 2001 Aaliyah also contend as the sissy Of The Damned, which was based on the bestsel ling novel by Anne Rice and set for release in 2002. On elevated 25,2001 Aaliyah died in a trag... '