Christina Aguilera Pics

Christina Maria Aguilera is an American pop singer-songwriter. She has been noted for her vocal abilities as well as her unorthodox sense of fashion. She began working in the entertainment industry at a relatively young age and rose to popularity through the critical and commercial success of her debut album Christina Aguilera , which produced four hit singles. Her second English-language studio album "Stripped" was also greeted with high sales, as well as less favorable reviews and public awe over Aguilera's sexual image. She is a four time Grammy award winner.

In 1998 she sang the High "E" in full voice on a cover of Whitney Houston's "Run to You" which she recorded with an old tape recorder in her bathroom. She was then selected to record the song "Reflection" for the Disney animated production of Mulan (1998). Recording "Reflection" led to Aguilera earning a contract with RCA Records during the same week.[7] "Reflection" peaked within the top twenty on the Mature Contemporary Singles Chart, and it was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for "Best Original Song" in 1998.

Aguilera in the music video for "Come on Over Baby (All I Want Is You)".Under the exclusive representation of Steve Kurtz, Aguilera's self-titled debut album Christina Aguilera was released in the United States in August 1999. It reached the top of the Billboard 200 and Canadian album charts, shipping over eight million copies in the United States alone. "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 the top five. Aguilera won the "Best New Artist" award at the 2000 Grammy Awards, and she was nominated for "Best Female Pop Vocal Performance" for "Genie in a Bottle". According to the album's songwriters who appeared on the documentary Driven, Aguilera wanted to display the power and audacity in her voice during the promotion of the album, and performed acoustic sets and appeared on television shows accompanied only by a piano.

In 2001 Aguilera, rapper Lil' Kim, Mya, and P!nk were chosen 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 and reached number one in eleven other countries, and it earned all four performers a 2002 Grammy Award for "Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals".