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Sexy teen idol Christina Aguilera was one of a handful of former Mouseketeers who, by the turn of the millennium, had graduated from the Disney Channel to MTV.

An army brat, Aguilera spent her early childhood traveling with her family from Texas to Japan to New Jersey. Her parents divorced when she was seven, and Aguilera settled with her mother and sister in Wexford, Pennsylvania. The following year, she appeared on Star Search performing the Whitney Houston hit "Greatest Love of All." Four years later, in 1993, Aguilera was a member of The New Mickey Mouse Club, along with Britney Spears and future members of 'N Sync. In 1998, after Disney tapped Aguilera to sing “Reflections” for the animated film Mulan, RCA signed the budding star and spent a rumored $1 million for a team of songwriters, producers, voice teachers, and marketing experts. Aguilera’s first single, “Genie in a Bottle,” came out the following year and topped the pop chart on the strength of its suggestive lyrics and bubblegum pop sound. A chart-topping self-titled album followed. When the video for Aguilera’s second single, “What a Girl Wants” (#1, 1999), hit MTV, the teenaged singer’s grown-up looks and steamy moves had critics describing her as everything from a “micro-diva” to a “legal Lolita.” In late 1999, Aguilera released a holiday single, “The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)” (#18, 1999). Capitalizing on the popularity of the Latin music movement (and her Spanish surname), Aguilera learned enough Spanish to record a Spanish-language album, Mi Reflejo (#27, 2000); it was followed closely by a holiday collection, My Kind of Christmas (#28, 2000). By late 2000, each of Aguilera’s first three albums were on Billboard’s Top 200 chart; she had sold more than 8 million copies of her debut album and won a Grammy for Best New Artist. In 2000 her singles included “Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You),” and in 2001 she duetted with Ricky Martin on “Nobody Wants to Be Lonely” (#13) and appeared in the #1 remake of “Lady Marmalade” with Lil’ Kim and others.

In an effort to stimulate the perpetual fickleness of pop stardom, Aguilera returned in 2002 with Stripped, a provocative and controversial reinvention of herself as a sexualized young woman. Her subsequent tour and music videos in support of the album, which relied heavily on much trimmer wardrobe, also won her a 2003 Grammy Award for Best Female Vocal Performance of her song “Beautiful”. She released Back To Basics in 2006, receiving another vocal peformance Grammy in 2007 for “Ain’t No Other Man.”

from The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll (Simon Schuster, 2001)

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