Aguilera lived with her father and mother until she was 6 or 7 years old, when her parents divorced her mother took her and her younger sister Rachel to her grandmother's home in Rochester, Pennsylvania, a blue-collar suburb of Pittsburgh. Her parents married when her mother was 20 years old and her father was almost 32. Aguilera's parents met while Fausto was serving at Earnest Harmon Air Force Base in Stephenville, Newfoundland. Aguilera's father was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, while her mother, a Newfoundlander, has German, English, Irish and Dutch ancestry. Army sergeant, and Shelly Loraine Fidler, a Spanish teacher. Her third studio album Back to Basics (2006), which was preceded by the hit single " Ain't No Other Man", included elements of soul, jazz and blues music and was released to good sales and positive critical reception.Īguilera, a military brat, was born in Staten Island, New York to Fausto Wagner Xavier Aguilera, a U.S. She contributed to several other artists' songs in 20 and married record executive Jordan Bratman. It received mixed reviews, and Aguilera's increasingly sexual image during its promotion became the subject of much criticism and controversy. In 2001, she participated in collaboration projects for Ricky Martin's Sound Loaded album and the Moulin Rouge soundtrack, which she won another Grammy Award for Lady Marmalade in the category Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals in 2002.Īguilera took creative control over her second studio album Stripped (2002), which produced the hip-hop-influenced " Dirrty" and the award-winning (including the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance) " Beautiful". A Latin Pop album Mi Reflejo which won a 2001 Latin Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album and a Christmas album My Kind of Christmas released during this period also sold strongly. She was signed to RCA Records after recording " Reflection" for the film Mulan, and her bubblegum pop-oriented debut album Christina Aguilera (1999) was a critical and commercial success: it produced four hit singles, including " Genie in a Bottle", and helped Aguilera win a Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 2000. Decem(age 25) in Staten Island, New York, United StatesĬhristina María Aguilera (born December 18, 1980) is a four time Grammy Award winning American pop singer and songwriter.
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