An American pop and R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, music video director, a sexy actress with stunning looks, natural singing ‘Diva’and the most popular female singer of the late-'90s teen pop revival, Christina Aguilera was born in Staten Island, New York, to Fausto Wagner Xavier Aguilera and Shelly Loraine Fidler. Christina did not have a very happy childhood about which she later wrote in the songs, "I'm OK" in Stripped, and "Oh Mother" in Back to Basics.
Since Aguilera was a child, she aspired to be a singer. As a child she performed at block attention, and was known as "the little girl with the big voice". Throughout her youth in Pittsburgh, Aguilera sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" before Pittsburgh Penguins Hockey games, Pittsburgh Steelers football and Pittsburgh Pirates baseball games. Her first major role in entertainment came in 1993 when she joined the Disney Channel's variety show The New Mickey Mouse Club, where her co-stars called her ‘The Diva’. Record the song "Reflection" for the Disney production of Mulan (1998) led to Aguilera earning a contract with RCA Records during the same week.
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She came to prominence following her debut album Christina Aguilera (1999), which was a critical and commercial success. A Latin Pop album Mi Reflejo, and a Christmas album, My Kind of Christmas, followed during this period and also sold strongly winning many awards.
In 2001, Aguilera was chosen alongwith Lil' Kim, Mya, and P!nk to remake Patti LaBelle's 1975 single "Lady Marmalade" for the Moulin Rouge! soundtrack. "Lady Marmalade" hit number one on the Hot 100 for five weeks. A music video was produced for the song, and Aguilera's appearance was compared to that of Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider. As she enjoyed her celebrity status, a collection of old demos -- recorded when she was 14 and 15 -- was released under the title Just Be Free, despite Aguilera's vehement objections.
Aguilera took creative control over her second studio album Stripped (2002), which received mixed reviews and substantial sales. During the album's promotion, her overtly sexual image became the subject of intense criticism and ridicule. Aguilera's look had gone from glossy to gritty. She appeared topless on the cover of the album and went nude for a fall issue of Rolling Stone. Then, she also took part in photoshoots for magazines such as Maxim and CosmoGirl!. Many of these photographs featured her nude or semi-nude. Initially, the raunchy image had a negative effect on Aguilera in the U.S., especially after the release of her controversial "Dirrty" music video. However, the single was a huge hit worldwide, reaching number one in several countries and top five on the UK, U.S. and Canadian album charts. Aguilera later decided to embrace a more mature image; this move was met with more praise than criticism. Her third studio album Back to Basics (2006), a two-disc set that explored her influences, mainly '20s, '30s, and '40s jazz and blues in the style of Etta James or Billie Holiday, portrayed a more mature, yet at the same time provocative, singer. It was released to good sales and positive critical reception. Aguilera's works have earned her five Grammy Awards amongst sixteen nominations, and well over 30 million album sales worldwide.
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