Who is Aaliyah

Aaliyah Dana Haughton was born on January 16, 1979, in Brooklyn, New York  Aaliyah signed with Jive Records and her uncle Barry Hankerson’s Blackground Records when she was just 12. Her debut album, ‘Age Ain’t Nothing but a Number’, recorded when the singer was just 14, was released in 1994. In its very first week, the album sold almost 74, 000 copies. Soon it reached from the 24th to the 18th position in Billboard 200, eventually selling over three million copies in the United States, where it was certified double Platinum by the RIAA. Aaliyah’s debut album ‘Age Ain’t Nothing but a Number’ spawned the hit singles ‘Back & Forth’ and ‘At Your Best (You Are Love)’, both of which were certified Gold by the RIAA. The album went on to sell over six million copies worldwide.  At the American Music Awards of 2002, Aaliyah won two posthumous awards: Favorite Female R&B Artist and Favorite R&B/Soul Album for ‘Aaliyah’. She was ranked in the VH1’s 2003 The Greatest series as one of the “Top 40 Women of the Video Era”. Aaliyah was ranked at No.70 on Billboard magazine’s Top Artists of the Decade, while her eponymous album stood at the 181th position on the magazine’s Top 200 Albums of the Decade in December 2009. 

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