Aaliyah Biography

Aaliyah Biography Aaliyah Dana Haughton was born in Brooklyn on January 16th, 1979

Aaliyah Haughton was an iconic American R&B singer, model, actress and dancer. She is best known for the many hit albums she recorded, her modeling work with Tommy Hilfiger, and for her starring roles in the movies 'Romeo Must Die' (2000), and 'Queen of the Damned' (2001). She past away in a tragic airplane accident on August 25th of 2001.

Aaliyah Dana Haughton was born in Brooklyn on January 16th, 1979, to parents Michael and Diane Haughton. She spent allot of her childhood growing up in Detroit, Michigan, and attended performing arts schools at a young age. In 1993, she signed on with her uncle, Barry Hankerson's label and released her leading album, 'Age Ain't Nothing but a Number'. To date, her first album has sold two million copies in the United States, and five million worldwide.

In something of a tabloid scandal, it was leaked to the press in 1994 that Aaliyah and R. Kelly, who had co-produced her first album, had been married. Aaliyah was 15 at the time, and had evidently claimed to be 18 so that the marriage could begin legally. Neither Aaliyah or R. Kelly ever confirmed that they had undeniably been married, and any marriage they did have was quickly annulled.

Aaliyah released a next album in 1996, 'One in a Million', which went double platinum in sales within its first year. The album was mostly written and produced by Missy Elliot and Tim Mosley.

With the attention she gathered from the larger achievement of her second album, Aaliyah caught the eye of Tommy Hilfiger, and was signed on as a model. Over the next few years she would do a number of modeling campaigns and advertisements with Hilfiger, and made many guest appearances on the albums of other singers such as Missy Elliot and Timbaland (Tim Mosely).

In 1997 Aaliyah appeared on the soundtrack for the Disney remake of Anastasia, and performed the song in the Oscars that year having been nominated for an award. She also appeared on the Doctor Doolittle soundtrack of 1998, her tune from that movie becoming a great triumph. In 2000 she began her acting career starring along side Jet Li in 'Romeo Must Die', and followed it up with Stuart Townsend in 2001's 'Queen of the Damned'.

While working on the producing of 'Queen of the Damned', Aaliyah recorded her third album, self-titled 'Aaliyah'. When it was released in July of 2001 and went gold within a month.

After filming a music video in the Bahamas, Aaliyah boarded a smaller Cessna airplane with the stop of Miami. Unfortunately, the plane crashed into a dense forest shortly after taking off and Everybody on board was killed. It was later revealed that the airplane was precariously overloaded and the pilot had drugs and alcohol in his system. It was also reported that the pilot had faked his flying hours in order to get his license.

Though no longer with us, Aaliyah made a tremendous impact of the R&B world, and her albums are still very popular around the planet today. Aaliyah Biography starts as she is best known for the many hit albums

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