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Aaliyah Dana Haughton was an American singer, actress, dancer, and model. Known as the "Princess of R&B" and "Queen of Urban Pop", she is credited with helping to redefine contemporary R&B, pop, and hip hop. Her accolades include three American Music Awards and two MTV VMAs, along with five Grammy Award nominations.
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entertainment · American singer (1979–2001) · dancer · model · pop singer · musician · actor · also Aaliyah, Baby Girl
Born 16 January 1979 · Died 25 August 2001 · Q11617
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2025· 2 entries
Mattel released an Aaliyah Barbie doll modeled on her appearance in the "One in a Million" music video
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2024· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “An image authentically depicts Sean “Diddy” Combs in a bed with people including Jennifer Lopez and Aaliyah.” Research In Progress.
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2023· 3 entries
Aaliyah was the subject of the documentary Superstar: Aaliyah, which was broadcast on ABC
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Published video “Story Time : Did Aaliyah invent the ombre hairstyle? #Aaliyah #ombrehair”.
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Published video “Storytime : Did Justin Timberlake flirt with Aaliyah? #Aaliyah #justintimberlake”.
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2022· 7 entries
Beyoncé released "The Queens Remix" to her single "Break My Soul", in which she name-drops Aaliyah, along with other cultural icons
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Published video “Aaliyah's Mural: An Interview With Photographer Jonathan Mannion #Aaliyah #mural #photographer”.
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Published video “Aaliyah's mural : An Interview With Graffiti Artist Jeks 1! #aaliyah #artbasel #mural #graffitiart”.
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Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison
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Published video “Art Basel: Aaliyah's Art Mural - Teaser! #Aaliyah #mural #artbasel #art”.
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Published video “Aaliyah X Kith Women for Aaliyah capsule collection. #Aaliyah #Kith #InternationalWomensDay #DSA”.
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Hankerson claimed that Unstoppable would be released later that month; however, it did not see a release and there was no related announcement from the label
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2021· 6 entries
Background Records released the posthumous Aaliyah single "Poison" featuring The Weeknd
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Published video “Aaliyah : MTV Diary In HD Full Episode #Aaliyah #MTVDiary #MTV”.
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A federal court jury found Kelly guilty of nine counts including racketeering, sexual exploitation of a child, kidnapping, bribery, sex trafficking, and a violation of the Mann Act
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Published video “Aaliyah : MTV Diary In HD Trailer #Aaliyah”.
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Barry Hankerson revealed in an interview with Big Tigger for WVEE that a posthumous album titled Unstoppable would be released in "a matter of weeks"
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Atria Books (an imprint of Simon & Schuster) published Kathy Iandoli's Baby Girl: Better Known as Aaliyah, a biography that draws on interviews with Aaliyah's friends, mentors and family, and documents how her career inf
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2020· 2 entries
Snopes rated the claim “Shaquille Marshon Francis, charged in the murder of Aaliyah Norris, was released from jail in an unrelated case some three hours before her shooting.” True.
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The publication included her on its list of the 100 Greatest Music Video Artists of All Time
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2019· 2 entries
The Las Vegas Madame Tussauds museum location unveiled a wax figure of Aaliyah, modeled on her appearance in the "Try Again" music video
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Damon Dash revealed to Hip Hop Motivation that she did not even speak of her relationship with Kelly in private; that he tried multiple times to discuss it with her, but she would only say that Kelly was a "bad man"
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2018· 1 entry
Released album “The Golden Hits Collection”.
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2017· 1 entry
Published video “AaliyahVEVO Live Stream”.
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2016· 1 entry
Kelly said that he was as in love with her as he was with "anybody else
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2015· 2 entries
Timbaland released the mixtape Kings Stay Kings, which includes the unreleased Aaliyah song "Shakin" featuring rapper Strado
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Published video “Aaliyah - If Your Girl Only Knew”.
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2014· 4 entries
It was announced that Chattrisse Dolabaille and Izaak Smith had been cast as Aaliyah's collaborators Missy Elliott and Timbaland
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It was announced that Alexandra Shipp would replace Zendaya for the role of Aaliyah for the Lifetime TV biopic movie Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B, which premiered on November 15, 2014
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NME ranked her at number 18 on its 100 most influential artist list
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Vibe magazine estimated that the album had sold six million copies globally
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2012· 3 entries
Blackground Records released the track "Enough Said", which featured vocals by Aaliyah and Canadian rapper Drake and was produced by Noah "40" Shebib
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Released ep “One In A Million: The Mixtape (Chopped Not Slopped)”.
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VH1 ranked her number 48 on their "Greatest Women in Music"
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2011· 7 entries
Released album “All Aaliyah, Vol.1: The Dave Cash Collection”.
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Released album “Lay It on Me: The Dave Cash Collection”.
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Released album “All Aaliyah, Vol. 2 (The Dave Cash Collection)”.
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Released album “Heartbroken”.
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Essence ranked her at number 14 on its 50 Most Influential R&B Starts list
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Released album “The Definitive Collection”.
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Shortly before the tenth anniversary of her death
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2010· 1 entry
Billboard listed her as the tenth most successful female R&B artist of the past 25 years, and 27th most successful R&B artist overall
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2009· 1 entry
Released album “Best of Baby Girl: Chopped & Screwed”.
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2008· 1 entry
Was ranked at number 18 on BET's "Top 25 Dancers of All Time"
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2006· 1 entry
Released album “LUIRE presents Aaliyah Eternal Selection”.
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2005· 2 entries
Released album “Ultimate Aaliyah”.
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Released album “Rare Recordings and DJ Remixes”.
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2003· 3 entries
Awarded American Music Award for Favorite Soul/R&B Female Artist (2003).
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The Entertainment Industry Foundation created the Aaliyah Memorial Fund in her memory to donate money raised to charities she supported
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Was ranked as one of "The Top 40 Women of the Video Era" in VH1's The Greatest series
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2002· 6 entries
Released album “I Care 4 U”.
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Awarded American Music Award for Favorite Soul/R&B Female Artist (2002).
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Awarded Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Single, Female for Rock the Boat (2002).
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Awarded American Music Award for Favorite Soul/R&B Album for Aaliyah (2002).
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Awarded NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Female Artist (2002).
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Released album “Hits & Unreleased: The Ultimate Collection”.
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2001· 12 entries
Died 2001-08-25.
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At 6:50 pm (EDT), Aaliyah and some employees of her record company boarded a twin-engine Cessna 402 light aircraft at the Marsh Harbour Airport in Abaco Islands, the Bahamas, to travel to Opa-Locka Airport in Florida aft
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At the age of 22, Aaliyah was killed in a plane crash along with eight other people on board, when the overloaded aircraft she was traveling in crashed shortly after takeoff
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And debuted at number two on the Billboard 200, selling 187,000 copies in its first week
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Released album “Aaliyah”.
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Aaliyah "had recorded some of the most innovative and influential pop songs of the last five years
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Called her sound "street but sweet", pairing feminine vocals with a gritty urban rhythm track
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“I have black-out shades in my apartment, I push a button, it’s totally dark. I think I’m a bit of a vampire in real life, and there are times when I just want to be myself. I wanna be alone.”
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Told Vibe magazine that she was mostly a homebody and liked "the simple things in life
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“There's a dark side to me that comes out in everything I do.”
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“É escuro em meu sonho predileto. Alguém está me seguindo. Não sei porquê. Estou com medo. Então de repente eu decolar. Muito longe. Como me sinto? Como se estivesse nadando no ar. Livre. Leve. Ninguém pode me alcançar. Ninguém pode me tocar. É um sentimento maravilhoso.”
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“It is dark in my favorite dream. Someone is following me. I don't know why. I'm scared. Then suddenly I lift off. Far away. How do I feel? As if I am swimming in the air. Free. Weightless. Nobody can reach me. Nobody can touch me. It's a wonderful feeling.”
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2000· 2 entries
Awarded MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video (2000).
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Awarded MTV Video Music Award for Best Video from a Film (2000).
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1999· 1 entry
Aaliyah landed her first big-screen acting role in Romeo Must Die
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1998· 2 entries
Hired a personal trainer to keep in shape, exercised five days a week, and ate diet foods
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Released the song "Are You That Somebody
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1997· 2 entries
Denoting shipments of two million copies
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Aaliyah graduated with a 4
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1996· 2 entries
Released album “One in a Million”.
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“Aaliyah refletindo sobre as reivindicações de seu casamento com R. Kelly (1996);”
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1995· 3 entries
Her father served as her personal manager and her mother assisted him
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When she was appearing in the Netherlands
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In a 1995 interview with Honey, Aaliyah stated that she was Catholic and attended church whenever she was at home.
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1994· 4 entries
In Sheraton Gateway Suites in Rosemont, Illinois
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Released album “Age Ain’t Nothing but a Number”.
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“Aaliyah sobre uma possível relação romântica com o colega músico R. Kelly (Dezembro de 1994);”
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That she and Kelly would "go watch a movie" and "go eat" when she got tired and would then "come back and work"
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1989· 1 entry
At age ten, she appeared on Star Search, where she performed "My Funny Valentine"
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1979· 2 entries
In Brooklyn, New York, the younger child of Diane (née Hankerson) and Michael "Miguel" Haughton, a warehouse worker
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Born 1979-01-16.
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