Christina Aguilera

Christina Aguilera
Christina Maria Aguilera is a famous American pop singer-songwriter. She has the honor of winning Grammy Award on five times. RCA Records signed a contract with Christina after her recording Reflection for the film Mulan. Her debut album Christina Aguilera (1999) was a critical and commercial success. This popular album earning her a Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 2000.Christina won a 2001 Latin Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Album for her Latin Pop album Mi Reflejo. A Christmas album My Kind of Christmas was another best selling album from Christina.

Her second album Stripped was released in 2002. This album was full of creativity and won Aguilera a Grammy Award. During the album?s promotion, her overtly sexual image became the subject of intense criticism and ridicule. Back to Basics (2006) was her third studio album. It included elements of soul, jazz and blues music. It was a superhit album and proved to be the best selling album. Aguilera won the Best Female Pop Vocal Performance Grammy for this album. Aguilera has been successful in selling over 30 million records internationally since her debut,.

Aguilera was born in Staten Island, New York on December 18, 1980. Her father Fausto Wagner Xavier Aguilera was a U.S. Army sergeant and her mother Shelly Loraine Fidler was a Spanish teacher. Aguilera lived with her father and mother until she was 6 or 7 years old. Her mother took her and her younger sister Rachel to her grandmother's home in Rochester, Pennsylvania after her divorce.

Aguilera aspired to be a singer when she was a small child. She performed at block attention as a child, and was known as the little girl with the big voice.

Aguilera was able to record her first song, All I Wanna Do at the age of fourteen. It was a hit duet with Japanese singer Keizo Nakanishi.

She got an opportunity of appearing on Star Search singing Etta James' A Sunday Kind of Love on March 15, 1990. But She could not win the competition. Then she returned home and appeared on Pittsburgh's KDKA-TV's Wake Up with Larry Richert to perform the same song again. She impressed the people with her voice.

Aguilera enjoyed singing The Star-Spangled Banner before Pittsburgh Penguins Hockey games, Pittsburgh Steelers football and Pittsburgh Pirates baseball games throughout her youth in Pittsburgh. In 1993 saw her first major role in entertainment when she joined the Disney Channel's variety show The New Mickey Mouse Club. Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, JC Chasez, Rhona Bennett, Ryan Gosling, and Keri Russell were her co-stars. Whitney Houston's I Have Nothing was one of her most notable performances.

She has the honor of representing the United States at the Golden Stag International Festival with a two-song set in 1997. These songs included a Sheryl Crow and Diana Ross song.

In 1998, Aguilera was selected to record the song Reflection for the Disney production of Mulan. During the same week, RCA Records signed a contract with Christina after her recording Reflection. It proved to be a super hit song. On the Adult Contemporary Singles Chart, Reflection peaked within the top twenty. The song also received nomination for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song in 1998.

Aguilera?s music video also became very much popular. Her singles Genie in a Bottle, What a Girl Wants and Come on Over Baby (All I Want Is You) topped the Billboard Hot 100 during 1999 and 2000, and I Turn to You reached #3.

Aguilara?s outstanding performances were very much appreciated and rewarded. Aguilera won the Best New Artist award at the 2000 Grammy Awards. She was nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for Genie in a Bottle. She ended the year on MTV's 2 Large New Year's Special, as she performed. Aguilara has the distinction of being MTV's first artist of the millennium.

Aguilera released her first Spanish album, Mi Reflejo on September 12, 2000. This album contained Spanish versions of songs from her English debut as well as new Spanish tracks. It peaked at #27 on the Billboard 200 and number one on the Latin album charts. This album was won Aguilera a Latin Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Album in 2001.She also won the World Music Award as the best selling Latin artist that year.

Aguilera signed a contract with European cell phone operator Orange in March 2006. She had to promote the new Sony Ericsson Walkman phone across the continent. She was featured in a Pepsi commercial alongside Lebanese singer Elissa as well as Korean pop singer Rain in May. The spot aired during the 2006 World Cup.