Aaliyah Memorial Fund In her precious 22 years, Aaliyah achieved more than many do in several lifetimes Learn More. Age Ain't Nothing but a Number View Track List. One in a Million Aaliyah View All. Photo Gallery. Facebook Instagram Twitter Youtube. Helmed by the well-known pop producer Timbaland and featuring rap performer Missy Elliott , One in a Million portrayed the year-old singer as a sultry hip-hop chanteuse with a self-confidence well beyond her years.
The album garnered favorable reviews and sold two million copies. Aaliyah gained even more recognition in when she recorded "Journey to the Past," the Academy Award-nominated theme song to the animated feature Anastasia. She also performed the song for the Oscar telecast in Her next soundtrack effort, "Are You That Somebody?
Dolittle , starring Eddie Murphy , went to No. Aaliyah at the premiere of the film, 'Mercury Rising. In , Aaliyah made her acting debut in the surprise action hit Romeo Must Die , starring opposite martial arts star Jet Li in a Romeo and Juliet-inspired story set in modern-day Los Angeles. Her third album, Aaliyah , was released in July and reached No. Also in , she played the title role in Queen of the Damned , based on the bestselling novel by Anne Rice and released in theaters in She scored a major casting coup when she signed to appear in two upcoming sequels to the blockbuster sci-fi thriller The Matrix , starring Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne.
Tragically, Aaliyah was killed on August 25, , when a small Cessna passenger plane carrying the singer and her video crew crashed and burst into flames shortly after takeoff from Abaco Island in the Bahamas, where they had just completed work on a video. The plane was headed for Miami, Florida. Aaliyah still considered Detroit home, but didn't make it back very often — once a year if she was lucky. But Detroiters still considered her family. And she was in her principal's office crying over getting a B instead of an A, which would have made her a perfect 4-point student.
That just blew me away. She laughed about it when we did the interview. And I asked her about it and she said that she really loved her school and that was important to her. She didn't want the career to take away from what she was supposed to do. She was tasting success, but still wanted to maintain some normalcy, she told the Free Press. She studied at Detroit's Performing Arts High School, doing independent study work in a small room near her principal, Denise Davis-Cotton, while her classmates worked down the hall.
Davis-Cotton, also a trusted family friend, traveled to New York on Sunday to mourn with Aaliyah's family. She graduated in with a 4. But she still hung out with her friends, took part in stage productions and went to her prom. There can never be another one. Aaliyah is back. She was just about to taste success in her career. A lot of artists, it seems like they get taken out as soon as they're in their prime.
That's the scary thing. Aaliyah is survived by her mother, Diane, father Michael, and a brother, Rashad Haughton. Final arrangements were pending at press time. They could not be reached Sunday.
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