Christina Aguilera is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She rose to prominence in 1999 following her self-titled debut album which spawned several number one singles. Her 2002 album Stripped showcased a more mature image and sound. She has since released 5 more albums and has had commercial and critical success. Aguilera took a break from music after 2010 to focus on motherhood but has recently returned with new music.

1. Christina
Christina
Aguilera
Aguilera

2. HER CHILDHOOD
LIFE
Christina Maria Aguilera was born
on December 18, 1980 in Staten
Island, New York. Christina first
appeared on television in 1990 as
a contestant on the Star Search
program, and went on to star in
Disney Channel's television series
The Mickey Mouse Club House
from 1993–1994. Aguilera signed
to RCA Records after recording
―Reflection", the theme song for
the animated film Mulan (1998).

3. HER TEENAGE YEARS
In 1999, Aguilera came to prominence following her debut
album Christina Aguilera, which was a commercial success
spawning three number one singles on the Billboard Hot
100—"Genie in a Bottle", "What a Girl Wants", and "Come
On Over Baby (All I Want Is You)."[6] Her sophomore and
her debut Latin-pop album, Mi Reflejo (2000), a Christmas
third studio album, My Kind of Christmas (2000), and
several collaborations followed which garnered Aguilera
worldwide success, though she was displeased with her
lack of input in her music and image.[7] After parting from
her management, Aguilera took creative control over her
fourth studio album, Stripped (2002).[8] The album's second
single, "Beautiful," was a commercial success and helped
the album's commercial performance amidst controversy
over Aguilera's image.[9][10][11] Aguilera followed up Stripped
with the soul, jazz and blues inspired, Back to Basics
(2006), released to positive critical acclaim.[12] The album
had three commercially successful singles: "Ain't No Other
Man", "Hurt" and "Candyman".[citation needed] Four years later
Aguilera released her sixth studio album, Bionic
(2010), which incorporated aspects of R&B, electropop, and
synthpop and was met with mixed reviews and low
sales.[13][14][15][16]

4. NEW IMAGE, STRIPPED AND MARRIAGE
 On October 26, 2002, Aguilera's fourth studio album, Stripped, was
released. The album sold more than 330,000 copies in the first week
and peaked at number two on the Billboard 200. Unlike her previous
work, the album showcased Aguilera's raunchier side.[67] The majority
of Stripped was co-written by Aguilera (who had recently signed a
global music publishing contract with BMG Music Publishing), and
was influenced by many different subjects and music styles, including
contemporary R&B, gospel, soul, balladry, pop rock, and hip hop.[68]
The majority of the album was produced by Scott Storch and singer-
songwriter Linda Perry who produced her more personal records.
Rockwilder and singer Alicia Keys also contributed a track each.
Upon initial release, the album was very well-received by
critics, although Aguilera's vocals were overlooked as she began to
cultivate a more sexually provocative image.[69] After the release of
the album, she took part in photoshoots for magazines, many of
these photographs featured her nude or semi-nude. Her cover for
Rolling Stone,[70] featured the singer only wearing boots and a well-
placed electric guitar. It was during this time Aguilera referred to
herself as "Xtina", even getting a tattoo of her nickname on the back
[71]

5. CONTINUATION
 Initially, the raunchy image had a negative effect on Aguilera in the
U.S., especially after the release of her controversial "Dirrty" music video.[10]
She denied that this change was a matter of publicity, claiming that the
image better reflected her true personality than did the image she cultivated
back in 1999. She defended the video stating it was about power and control
adding, "I'm also at the forefront. I'm in the power position, in complete
command of everything around me."[40] While the video for "Dirrty" became
very popular on MTV, it disappointed on the U.S. singles chart. However, the
single was a hit worldwide, reaching number one in the UK and Ireland. The
second single, "Beautiful" received critical praise. The classically influenced
ballad reached number one in several countries and peaked at No.2 in the
US. "Beautiful" earned Aguilera the Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal
Performance. Three more singles ("Fighter", "Can't Hold Us Down" featuring
Lil' Kim, "The Voice Within") were released in the following two years and
were hits that helped the album stay on the charts for the next two years.
Stripped stayed on the U.S. and UK album charts well into 2004, and went
on to be certified four-times platinum in the U.S. with over thirteen million
copies sold worldwide.[72] It appeared at number ten on Billboard's year-end
album chart and Aguilera was the top female artist for 2003.[73] Kelly
Clarkson's second single "Miss Independent" was co-written by
Aguilera, having been half-finished for Stripped.

6. MORE
 Aguilera joined Justin Timberlake that June on the final leg of his
international Justified tour, held in the US. This portion of the tour
became a co-headliner called the Justified/Stripped Tour. In
August, an overhead lighting grid collapsed from the ceiling of the
Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, causing major damage to
the sound and video equipment below. Because the collapse
occurred hours before the show, only a few stagehands were
injured, but a few shows were cancelled or postponed. In the fourth
quarter of that year, Aguilera continued to tour internationally without
Timberlake, and changed the name of the tour to the Stripped World
Tour. She also dyed her hair black. It was one of the top-grossing
tours of that year, and sold out most of its venues. Rolling Stone
readers named it the best tour of the year.[74] That same year she
hosted the 2003 MTV Europe Music Awards and was a special guest
performer with the Pussycat Dolls' dance troupe performing at the
Roxy Theatre and Viper Room in Los Angeles. She also appeared on
a Maxim spread alongside them, her second Maxim cover that year
set record sales for the issue making it the top selling issue to date.
By the end of the year she topped the annual Hot 100 list saying, "we

7. HER LIFE CONTINUED
 Aguilera's first DVD live-recording from a concert tour, Stripped Live in the U.K., was released in
November 2004. In light of the tour's success, another U.S. tour was scheduled to begin in mid-
2004 with a new theme. The tour however was scrapped because of the vocal cord injuries
Aguilera suffered shortly before the tour's opening date. In a tribute to Madonna's performance
at the inaugural MTV Video Music Awards, Aguilera performed a kiss with the singer-actress at
the 2003 edition of the ceremony in August. The incident occurred during the opening
performance of Madonna's songs "Like a Virgin" and "Hollywood" with fellow popstar Britney
Spears.[40] Also in 2004, she hosted a Saturday Night Live episode which included a Sex & The
City skit where she portrayed Samantha Jones revealing to everyone she was a man the entire
time.[78]
 Aguilera later decided to embrace a more mature image; this move was met with more praise
than criticism, with articles using punch lines such as "From Crass to Class."[79] She eventually
dyed her hair cherry blonde and recorded a jingle, "Hello", for a Mercedes-Benz ad. Shortly
after, she dyed her hair flaxen blonde and cut it short, and took on a Marilyn Monroe look; she is
one of the main proponents (along with Dita Von Teese, Gwen Stefani, and Ashley Judd) in
bringing back the 1920s–1940s Hollywood glamour look.[80][81] In late summer 2004, Aguilera
released two singles. The first, "Car Wash", was a remake of the Rose Royce disco song
recorded as a collaboration with rapper Missy Elliott for the soundtrack to the film Shark Tale.
She voiced a small singing part in the film playing a Rastafarian jellyfish in the film's closing
musical number. The second song was also a collaboration, but this time as a second single
from one of Nelly's double-release albums, Sweat, titled "Tilt Ya Head Back". Both singles failed
commercially in the US, but did considerably better in other parts of the world. Aguilera
collaborated with jazz artist Herbie Hancock on a cover of Leon Russell's "A Song for You"
recorded for Hancock's album Possibilities, released in August 2005. Aguilera and Hancock
were later nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals. She
helped open the 50th Anniversary for Disneyland performing "When You Wish upon a Star", and
she also collaborated with Andrea Bocelli on the song "Somos Novios" for his album Amore.

8. MOTHERHOOD
 Aguilera confirmed she was pregnant on November
4, 2007,[99] though Paris Hilton accidentally revealed her
pregnancy several weeks prior during a party Aguilera
hosted.[100] She gave birth to her son, Max Liron Bratman, in
Los Angeles on January 12, 2008 and held a bris for him
with Bratman, who is of Jewish descent, where the baby
was circumcised in accordance with Jewish practice.[101]
Aguilera was reportedly paid $1.5 million by People for her
son's baby pictures—the sixth most expensive celebrity
baby photos ever taken

9. PRESENT
 Aguilera's sixth studio album Bionic was released on June 8, 2010. The album's producers
included Tricky Stewart, Samuel Dixon, Polow da Don, Le Tigre, Switch, Ester Dean, songwriters
Sam Endicott, Sia Furler, Claude Kelly, Linda Perry and collaborations with M.I.A., Santigold, Nicki
Minaj, and Peaches. Two of the album's three singles, "Not Myself Tonight" and "You Lost Me"
peaked at No.1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play Charts[105] but were unsuccessful elsewhere.
"Woohoo", featuring rapper Nicki Minaj, was also released as the album's second single. Bionic's
material consisted of many mainstream and pop records along with electronic and dance music.
The album was released to mixed reviews from music critics, [106] with Jon Pareles of The New York
Times writing that the singer's new music direction "makes her sound as peer-pressured as a pop
singer can be."[107] Allison Stewart of The Washington Post described the album as being
"noisy, robotic and overstuffed" adding that the disc's "greatest disappointments" is its "virtual
abandonment" of Aguilera's voice.[108] She concluded that Aguilera attempts "to do it all," which
was to try to "revel in her newfound domesticity, to wrest her crown from Gaga and to reestablish
her sex kitten bona fides."[108] Dan Martin of the NME wrote, "Perhaps best of all is ‘Monday
Morning.' Written with Santigold and The Bravery’s Sam Endicott, it’s a Day-Glo disco jam that
sounds like Gwen Stefani doing "Borderline".[14] Sales of Bionic were underwhelming in the US
compared to her previous releases selling 110,000 copies in its first week landing at No.3. [109][110] It
has since sold 295,000 copies in the US.[111] Shortly after the album's release, further promotion
ended and a scheduled summer tour for the album was cancelled due to "inadequate rehearsal
time".[112] "You Lost Me" was her first single to not chart the Hot 100 while Bionic was her first
English studio album not to receive a Grammy nomination. Aguilera later responded in an interview
saying, "I was really proud of that record. I think there was a lot of promotion issues, coming from a