Christina Maria Aguilera was born in the family of Fausto Wagner Xavier Aguilera, immigrant from Ecuador, and a teacher of Spanish language Shelly Loraine Fidler. The father, military officer, served in Canada and Japan where he lived with his wife and two daughters.
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When Christina was 7 her parents got divorced. Mother took Christina and her sister in Pennsylvania. There they settled down in one of the suburbs of Pittsburg. Her mother got married again. Fausto Aguilera often wrote her daughter, but she refused from communication with him because the father of the future singer was frequently rude with Christina and her mother and even savaged. That’s why difficult childhood became one of the constant themes of Aguilera’s creation.
As example the song Oh Mother from the last album Back to Basics can be. From early childhood Christina listened records of Madonna, Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, dreamed about career of singer and constantly won on various local contests.
But Aguilera’s talent had and other side. Coevals envied strong-voiced girl – had digs, didn’t want to communicate with her, snipped tires of family car. Finally Christina’s parents decided to move.
In March of 1990 Aguilera took part in Star Search contest, but lost. Nevertheless inceptive artist became local star, and in 1993 Christina was invited to Mickey Mouse Club. There she appeared with future pop stars such as Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears.
After show finished in 1994 Aguilera began to record demo cassettes and send them to studios. In 1998 Christina performed Reflection composition for Mulan cartoon of Walt Disney studio. This work brought her contract with RCA Records studio.
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In August of 1999 debut album of Christina Aguilera was released that gifted such dancing hits as Genie in a Bottle, What A Girl Wants, Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You) and I Turn To You. Uncommonly melodious Aguilera’s songs adorned with rich vocal conquered the hearts of listeners at once.
In 2000 Christina reminded about her Latin-American roots with her disk record Mi Reflejo, and later Ricky Martin invited her for recording of Nobody Wants To Be Lonely track from Sound Loaded work. In October of 2000 Aguilera released Christmas album My Kind Of Christmas. In 2001 for musical Moulin Rouge Christina, Pink, Lil’ Kim and Mia presented windup cover on Lady Marmalade song accompanied with tempting video.
After that Christina’s career began to develop very fast.