Christina Aguilera

Biography of Christina Aguilera

Christina Aguilera was born on December 18, 1980 in Staten Island, New York.

She is the daughter of Fausto Xavier Aguilera, Ecuadorian, and Shelly Loraine Fidler, Irish, both soldiers who traveled to Europe with the youth symphony orchestra.

Her parents separated when she was very young. She lived in places like New Jersey, Texas, New York, and Japan.

After her parents' divorce when she was six years old, along with her younger sister Rachel and her mother (who later remarried), she moved into her grandmother's house in the Pittsburgh, Rochester, New York. After many years of estrangement, Aguilera reconciled with her father in 2012.

At the age of eight, she appeared on the Star Search program. At the age of ten, she sang the national anthem for the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Penguins. At twelve she worked at the new Mickey Mouse club, where she would stay for two years.

In early 1998 she was invited to audition for the Disney animated movie Mulan and she recorded the song Reflection.

In her first album she is shown as a sparkling girl who makes dance with the first melody of the song Genie in a bottle. Her single Blessed was produced by Travon Potts.

On her tour of Japan she sang with Sheryl Crow and Diana Ross. She also sang for US President Bill Clinton on the televised space show Christmas in Washington.

On February 24, 2000, she won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist. She releases Stripped in 2002, which sold over ten million copies, and later Back to Basics.

In 2008, her first compilation album titled Keeps Gettin' Better: A Decade of Hits appeared.

Her fourth studio album was called Bionic released in June 2010. In that same year she released the movie Burlesque, in which she co-starred with Cher.

She participated as a judge on the music show The Voice alongside singers like Adam Levine, with whom she collaborated on the single Moves Like Jagger, and with Cee Lo Green and Blake Shelton with whom she recorded the studio album, Lotus in 2012.

Aguilera released her eighth studio album, titled Liberation, on June 15, 2018.

On October 21, 2021, Aguilera released Pa Mis Niñas, with Becky G, Nicki Nicole and Nathy Peluso as a preview single of what will be her second album in Spanish. On November 19 of the same year, she presented Somos Nada, also as part of this album, at the 22nd Annual Latin Grammy Awards.

She is the winner of four Grammy Awards and a Latin Grammy Award (the first American to win this Grammy), among fifteen nominations and three, respectively.

Married to Jordan Bratman from 2005 to 2011, her son Max Liron was born on January 12, 2008.

Aguilera got engaged to Matthew Rutler in February 2014. The couple has a daughter, Summer Rain, born in August 2014.