Christina Aguilera

Christina Aguilera Profile

Name: Christina Aguilera

Birth Name: Christina Maria Aguilera

Height: 5' 2 1/2"

Sex: F

Nationality: American

Birth Date: December 18, 1980

Birth Place: Staten Island, New York, USA

Profession: actress, musician

Education: Marshall Middle School in Wexford, Pennslyvania.
North Allegheny High School in Wexford, Pennsylvania (graduated in 1999)
Mickey Mouse Club
Rochester Area Elementary School in Rochester, Pennsylvania.

Husband/Wife: Jordan Bratman (music executive; dated since 2002; engaged on
February 11, 2005; married on November 19, 2005 at the Staglin Family Vineyard in Northern California's Napa Valley)

Father: Fausto Aguilera (military officer; separated)

Mother: Shelly Kearns (Irish-American; violinist, pianist; president of Christina's fan club)

Sister: Rachel Aguilera (younger; born 1986)

Half Sister: Stephanie Aguilera (younger)

Half Brother: Michael (younger; born 1996), Casey (younger)

Step Father: Jim Kearns

Claim to fame: Hit single Genie in a Bottle (1999)

Christina Aguilera Biography

Christina María Aguilera (born December 18, 1980) is an American pop singer and songwriter. She was signed to RCA Records after recording "Reflection" for the film Mulan. She came to prominence following her debut album Christina Aguilera (1999), which was a critical and commercial success. A Latin pop album Mi Reflejo, and a Christmas album, My Kind of Christmas, followed during this period and also sold very well.

Aguilera took creative control over her second studio album Stripped (2002), which received mixed reviews and produced substantial sales. The overtly sexual image Aguilera displayed during the promotion of the album became the subject of intense criticism and ridicule.

Aguilera's third studio album Back to Basics (2006) included elements of soul, jazz, and blues music. It was released to good sales and positive critical reception. Aguilera's works have earned her numerous awards including five Grammy Awards amongst sixteen nominations. She has sold 30 million albums worldwide.

In early 2002, Aguilera began dating music marketing executive Jordan Bratman. Their engagement was announced in February 2005, and they married on November 19, 2005, in the Napa Valley. The couple celebrated their one year anniversary in Dublin, Ireland where she was on tour at the time. In November of 2007 Aguilera confirmed that she and her husband are expecting their first child together around January 2008.

Aguilera was born in Staten Island, New York, to Fausto Wagner Xavier Aguilera, a Sergeant in the U.S. Army at the time and Shelly Loraine Fidler, a Spanish teacher. Aguilera's father was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, while her mother is of Irish descent (her maternal grandmother emigrated from County Clare). Her father, Fausto, was stationed at Earnest Harmon Air Force Base in Stephenville, Newfoundland, Canada and Japan. Aguilera lived with her father and mother until she was seven years old. When Aguilera's parents divorced, her mother took her, and her younger sister Rachel, to her grandmother's home in Wexford, Pennsylvania, a blue-collar suburb outside of Pittsburgh. According to both Aguilera and Fidler, her father was very controlling, as well as physically and emotionally abusive. She later wrote about her difficult childhood in the songs "I'm OK" in Stripped, and "Oh Mother" in Back to Basics. Although her father has written to Aguilera, she has ruled out any chance to reunite with him. Since then, Fidler has married a paramedic named Jim Kearns, and has changed her name to Shelly Kearns.