I’m going to talk about a singer who for me was the best thing that came into my life. For me, it is not just a simple singer, is the one that makes me happy when I'm sad and gives me strength.
Christina Maria Aguilera was born on December 18, 1980 in Staten Island - New York, daughter of Fausto Wagner Xavier Aguilera, a Ecuadorian sergeant of the Air Force and Shelly Loraine Fidler, a pianist and translator of Spanish and Irish descent. As her father was a soldier, her family was always changing. They lived in Texas, Florida, Arizona, and even in Japan, all this in her first 6 years of life, so Christina always had trouble in adapting. Around this time, her sister Rachel was born. When Christina was 7 years old, her parents got divorced and Shelly took them to her grandmother's house in Rochester, Pa. (Pennsylvania), a town outside Pittsburgh with the hope of rebuilding their lives. According to Christina and her sister, their father was controlling and abusive emotionally and psychologically. You can understand it when Christina sings about her childhood difficulties in songs like "I'm OK" from the album Stripped, and "Oh Mother" Back to Basics. She won four Grammy Awards and a Latin Grammy, Golden Globe nominee. She began her broadcasting career in 1990, appearing on U.S. TV talent show Star Search and later that year on The Mickey Mouse Club, where she met Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake. She was hired by RCA Records in 1999, after singing "Reflection" song from the movie Mulan.
In 1999, she edited her first album "Christina Aguilera", which became a success, winning several awards, including New Artist Grammy, beating singers like Britney Spears. In 2000, she published "Mi Reflejo" and in that same year she published the album "My Kind Christmas.” Christina sold over sixty million albums around the world, becoming one of the singers who sold the most in 2000. In 2001, she recorded "Lady Marmalade" for the film “Moulin Rouge” and also "Nobody Wants to Be Lonely" with the singer Ricky Martin. In 2002, after three years of work, Aguilera released her second official album, “Stripped” – completely different from her first album. It is less pop, and with varied influences ranging from jazz to hip-hop, through gospel, soul and R & B. At first, the album was not as well received by the critics as the previous ones. And for many, the amazing vocal ability was overshadowed by Christina's sexy and provocative image that she began to grow with the debut single, "Dirrty". She denied that this change was an advertising problem, saying that the image reflected more her true personality than the image cultivated in 1999. At this time, she called herself Xtina, which she had tattooed on her neck and had a lot of body piercings.
In 2003, she was invited to present Europe Music Awards, the top award at MTV Europe, and became the host of the event, where she also won the award for Best Female Singer. The show presented by the singer was one of the most lucrative and had the biggest records of audience in the history of the awards. Christina Aguilera was entitled Artist of the Year by the Rolling Stones Magazine. Besides, her tour, Stripped Tour, has been voted the year's best and most lucrative tour of 2003. Aguilera has showed off a most controversial and sexy posture, a symbol of the greatest feminists of today. She has always defended the rights of women, as we can see on the song “Can´t hold us down”.
In 2004, Christina assumed a more mature attitude, leaving the bold image that she built with "Dirrty" and participated in important political movements and social campaigns like “Declare Yourself”, where she appeared with her mouth sewn, expressing the consequences of giving up on the vote.
In November 2005, she married Jordan Bratman a record executive. Strongly influenced by jazz and soul from the 20s, 30s and 40s, Aguilera worked on her third album, “Back To Basics”, released on August getting to no. 1 in over 15 countries. Her Greatest Hits Album "Keeps Gettin' Better - A Decade of Hits" contains the greatest hits since 1998, was released on November, 2008. In the same year, she was invited by the filmmaker Martin Scorsese for the film “Rolling Stones: Shine A Light”, in which Christina appeared in a duet with Mick Jagger on the song "Live With Me". Aguilera was also included in the list of "Hundred best singers of all time”, performed by the renowned magazine Rolling Stone, occupying the 58th position, being the youngest female to enter the list.
In 2009, she was considered one of 50 Most Beautiful People by People Magazine and Maxim magazine. In 2010, Christina released her 4th studio album. Aguilera said that this album is a forward look, with inspiration from sounds and types of alternative and futurist music, such as Electro. Christina Aguilera said she always wanted to innovate when making music, so while with Back to Basics she took us to the past, with "Bionic" wanted to do exactly the opposite.
On October 2010, Christina said that her marriage of five years with record producer Jordan Bratman was over. Also in 2010, Christina was nominated by ONU as the Ambassador Against Hunger and was honored with a star on the Walk of Fame. Currently, after the big success of her movie “Burlesque”, Christina is now concentrated on recording her 5th studio album. She also collaborated with rapper TI for his 7th album entitled “No Mercy.”
This is a bit of the Christina’s life.
Many people ask me why I like her so much, sometimes I don’t t know what to say, because there are so many things that make me like her so much that I can’t answer those things that have no explanation. What do I like about her? Her eyes, her mouth, her voice (of course), her personality and the way she moves.
When I got to know her work I was 11 years and it was through a friend. At that time, I was a fan of a Belgian singer called Lara Fabian and I didn’t care too much, I liked her music and voice, but never thought of myself as a fan and I didn’t even have an album of hers. At the time, Christina had an image and a very different behavior than she has today. Only on 21 August in 2003 did I buy my first album of her and that was her fourth one, but something always prevented me from buying an album of hers, I always ended up buying another one. When I heard her album “Stripped” (the first I bought), I am sincere I didn’t like it, just two or three songs, but with time I increasingly enjoyed the album and the singer, so I bought all her albums and that was when began my "passion" for this amazing woman called Christina Aguilera. It was this "new" Christina that made me like her, with her sexy and provocative way, the real Christina finally made herself known, and thus left an image also imposed by her manager and record. From that moment on, I never stopped being her fan, and due to that at school I am known as the "fanatic" for Aguilera, even an English teacher of mine calls me Christina.
Apart from this, she has been great help to me. When my mother was very ill, between life and death, that night when she was very ill at hospital, I went to my room and looked for a picture of her with tears in my eyes and thought what I would do if I lost my mother? The fact that she was not there and I just looked at her and listened to her music, gave me so much strength. Whenever I'm down, she’s the one person that fills me with so much strength to continue. Something that for me is also strange is that I seem to feel when she is ill, I feel a discomfort in the chest, it looks like I'll have an anxiety attack, besides the knowledge of knowing from memory the way she moves and what she will say in certain moments. If it is true that such a person exist, she is that one.
Tânia Mountinho
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