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 'Washington Post' dubbed 阿丽雅 "Hip-Hop's Lady Di"
'Washington Post' dubbed Aaliyah "Hip-Hop's Lady Di"
From Drake's reported tattoo of 阿丽雅 on his back to Timbaland's admission to being in 爱情 with her, the late singer has been the talk of the blogosphere recently. Aaliyah, 你 recall, died at the age of 22 in a tragic plane crash with eight others weeks before 9/11. Unlike other 名人 who have died young, drama hasn't really overshadowed Aaliyah's legacy. Perhaps that's because she kept her family close.

From 日 one, they were extremely involved in her career. Her mother's brother, Barry Hankerson, who managed R. Kelly and had also been married to Gladys Knight, initially managed her career. When the R. Kelly marriage rumors surfaced, her father, Michael Haughton, became her personal manager with her mother Diane assisting heavily. Her brother Rashad and her cousin, Jomo, Barry Hankerson's son, were consistently with her when she worked as well.

But potential career-ending 《丑闻》 aside, 阿丽雅 was a promising artist from the beginning. Her debut album, Age Ain't Nothing but a Number, was a mixture of the old, with its obvious riffs off the classic sounds of The Isley Brothers and Betty Wright, and the new, with its hard-edged, hip-hop beats. It was a nice bridge from what had been to what was.

Physically, she was a beautiful girl but her femme tomboy style, which TLC also rocked, was very age-appropriate. She was still a teenager and that showed in her dress and in her music. Aaliyah's career was very well-planned but it was authentic as well. 阿丽雅 felt sincere from the start and didn't come across as record-industry packaging. There was just something very organic about her personality and, most importantly, her music.
As her career continued, those qualities never diminished.

She never appeared to be trying to be someone else 或者 anything she was not. When she broke from R. Kelly on the heels of 《丑闻》 for her 秒 album, One in a Million, she and her team were confident enough to invest in the talent of Timbaland and Missy Elliott, despite being very untested in the industry at the time. Because her debut album had sold over two million copies, conventional wisdom would have had her play it 安全 and go with 更多 established 音乐 industry creatives.

But 阿丽雅 was just not known for doing the typical thing, and, unlike many new artists, she didn't live for only the moment. Longevity in the industry was a 最佳, 返回页首 priority for her. In a 1995 interview with Jamie Foster Brown at Sister 2 Sister, she made that very clear.

"I want[ed] to be in this business for a while," she told Jamie Foster Brown. "On each album I want to take my image to another level. My first album was strictly street-you know, "young." I want to be a little 更多 sophisticated and along with my age group. If I'm 25, I'm pretty sure the bandannas and things won't be as prevalent as far as my age is concerned. I want to change little 由 little with the time so that my 粉丝 won't be shocked as far as coming out with a dress 或者 something, 你 know?"

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