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Aaliyah Dana Haughton (January 16, 1979 – August 25, 2001), who performed under the mononym Aaliyah (pronounced /əˈliːə/), was an American recording artist, actress and model. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, and was raised in Detroit, Michigan. At an early age, she appeared on the television show Star Search and performed in concert alongside Gladys Knight. At age 12, Aaliyah was signed to Jive Records and Blackground Records by her uncle, Barry Hankerson. He introduced her to R. Kelly, who became her mentor, as well as lead songwriter and producer of her debut album, Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number. The album sold two million copies in the United States and was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). After facing allegations of an illegal marriage with Kelly, Aaliyah ended her contract with Jive and signed to Atlantic Records.

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Aaliyah worked with record producers Timbaland and Missy Elliott for her second album, One in a Million; it sold two million copies in the United States and over eight million copies worldwide. In 2000, Aaliyah appeared in her first major film, Romeo Must Die. She contributed to the film’s soundtrack, which spawned the single “Try Again”. The song topped the Billboard Hot 100 solely on airplay, making Aaliyah the first artist in Billboard history to achieve this feat. “Try Again” earned Aaliyah a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female R&B Vocalist.

After filming Romeo Must Die, Aaliyah filmed her part in Queen of the Damned. She released her third and final album, Aaliyah, in 2001. On August 25, 2001, Aaliyah and eight others were killed in an airplane crash in The Bahamas after filming the music video for the single “Rock the Boat”. The pilot, Luis Morales III, was unlicensed at the time of the accident and had traces of cocaine and alcohol in his system. Aaliyah’s family later filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Blackhawk International Airways, which was settled out of court. Since then, Aaliyah has achieved commercial success with several posthumous releases. Selling over 24 million records worldwide, she has been credited for helping redefine R&B and hip hop and has been named the “Princess of R&B”.

Legacy

Aaliyah has been credited for helping redefine R&B and hip hop in the 1990s, “leaving an indelible imprint on the music industry as a whole.”[90][91] Steve Huey of Allmusic wrote Aaliyah ranks among the “elite” artists of the R&B genre, as she “played a major role in popularizing the stuttering, futuristic production style that consumed hip-hop and urban soul in the late ’90s.”[92] Described as one of “R&B’s most important artists” during the 1990s,[93] her second studio album, One in a Million, became one of the most influential R&B albums of the decade.[94] According to Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine, Aaliyah provided a “missing link” between hip hop and electronica.[95] Having sold 8.1 million albums in the United States and over 24 million records worldwide,[96][97] Aaliyah has been named the “Princess of R&B”[98] and “prove[d] she was a muse in her own right”.[99] Ernest Hardy of Rolling Stone dubbed her as the “undisputed queen of the midtempo come-on”.[72]

Aaliyah was honored at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards by Janet Jackson, Missy Elliott, Timbaland, Ginuwine and her brother, Rashad, who all paid tribute to her.[100] In the same year, the United States Social Security Administration ranked the name Aaliyah one of the 100 most popular names for newborn girls.[101] Aaliyah was ranked as one of “The Top 40 Women of the Video Era” and “100 Sexiest Artists” in VH1’s 2003 The Greatest series.[102][103] She was also ranked at number 18 on BET’s “Top 25 Dancers of All Time”.[104] In memory of Aaliyah, the Entertainment Industry Foundation created the Aaliyah Memorial Fund to donate money raised to charities she supported.[105][106] In December 2009, Billboard magazine ranked Aaliyah at number 181 on the magazine’s Top 200 Albums of the Decade.[107]

Studio albums
Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number (1994)
One in a Million (1996)
Aaliyah (2001)

Compilations
I Care 4 U (2002)
Ultimate Aaliyah (2005)
Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1997 New York Undercover Herself “Fade Out” (season 3, episode 65)
2000 Romeo Must Die Trish O’Day Feature film
2002 Queen of the Damned Queen Akasha Feature film. Posthumous release

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