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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...AALIYAH Aaliyah (Blackground) A siren of subtlety, never wailing when a whisper would do, she blended genres with alluring ease. For her, hip-hop/soul and muted alternative rock came together as easily as lovers interlocking fingers. A plane crash claimed Aaliyah's life in August, but on her last CD her soul is forever in flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best and Worst of 2001: Music | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

...Aaliyah Aaliyah (Blackground) A siren of subtlety, never wailing when a whisper would do, she blended genres with alluring ease. For her, hip-hop/soul and muted alternative rock came together as easily as lovers interlocking fingers. A plane crash claimed Aaliyah's life in August, but on her last CD her soul is forever in flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

...liked her when he first met her back in 1996. He had met her through her uncle, the head of Blackground, who had arranged a meeting between the two in a New York studio. She seemed smart and shy and fun, and so Hunter agreed to work with her at some point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aaliyah: More Than a Woman | 12/8/2001 | See Source »

...actress (in last year's action hit Romeo Must Die) and hip-hop soul singer (her third CD, Aaliyah, on Blackground/ Virgin, came out last week) is talking gleefully about a love scene in her next movie. It's Anne Rice's The Queen of the Damned, and Aaliyah, 22, plays the boss vampire Akasha. "Akasha is very manipulative," she says. "She and Lestat [a character played by Tom Cruise in Interview with a Vampire and by Stuart Townsend here] get into a tub, and I seduce him. So I had to kiss him on the chest and draw blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Street But Sweet | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

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