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| She's a Hit Machine: But Is She the Next Mariah/Whitney? - Mar 2000 | | As a late entree to the Best New Artist category at last years Grammy Awards, Chrsitina Aguilera ended up being the surprise awardee, taking home the coveted award that serves as the vehicle to announce to the world that a brand new star is born. With just one single release under her slender belt, Christina grabbed the attention of the world last year with her breakout hit, "Genie in a Bottle," and followed it up with another hit, "What a Girl Wants," which debuted as the No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100 to start the new millenium. Since then, Christina's career has con... |
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| Hot apple pie to go! - Mar 2000 |  Cheeky Christina Aguilera got sweet revenge on a girl who used to make fun of her when she went singing auditions years ago. She heard from friends that the girl was now working at McDonald's. So Christina jumped in her snazzy new convertible, pulled up at the drive- trough window and asked for the gilr to come to the window. When she appeared, Christina gave her best superstar smile and said: "Hi, remember me? Heard you were working here and just dropped to say "hello", see ya!" Then she drove off giggling.... |
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| Cosmo Girl Interview - Mar 2000 |  This Grammy-nominated diva doesn't do anything halfway (except, of course, her shirts!)
CosmoGIRL!: Okay, Christina. It's no secret that you were tortured by other kids in high school, but you came through it and got even more confident. What's your advice for other girls who are having a tough time fitting in?
Christina Aguilera: You have to look at the situation and say "I'm not going to let this get me down." You can totally turn a bad situation into a positive one by focusing on yourself. Not in a selfish way, but by having dreams and setting goals. So find what you like to do ... |
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| Grammys Mean Sales For Santana, Aguilera, Others - Mar 01, 2000 | For those of you who thought that things couldn't get any rosier for Carlos Santana...
After conjuring up nine statuettes at last week's Grammy Awards, the guitar legend turned the gold rush into a sales rush, according to figures released by SoundScan on Wednesday.
Santana saw the already impressive sales of his "Supernatural" LP more than double after his massive Grammy night, as the album sold more than 583,000 copies last week. The impressive total means that Santana will continue to claim the number one spot on the "Billboard" album chart next week, a position the g... |
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| Santana Gets Post-Grammy Boost - Mar 01, 2000 | | Christina Aguilera, who beat fellow teen star Britney Spears for the Best New Artist Grammy, enjoyed a Grammy-win boost, as her self-titled debut moved up two spots to No. 3 with 132,000 copies sold. |
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| Christina on the Grammys and her future - Mar 02, 2000 | LOS ANGELES (AP) - So, Christina Aguilera, you're just 19 and you've already won the Grammy Award for best new artist. What are you going to do now?
No, the reigning queen of teen pop isn't going to Disneyland, but that's very close. The Disney Channel is where we'll see her next, when she kicks off the network's new music documentary series ''2 Hour Tour'' on March 11. Each week, a major artist will audition a series of bands, then pick one to be an opening act, showing the group the ropes in the world of big-time pop music.
``It's so funny, I just keep coming back to Disney for different... |
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| The awful Truth - Mar 02, 2000 | | And what about his groovin' with that teenybopper (an age of which you seem fond) Christina Aguilera? |
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| Mambo King Lou Bega Gets a Little Bit of Disney in His Life on ``Radio Disney Ja - Mar 02, 2000 | | "Radio Disney Jams 2" includes hits from best-selling teen sensations Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys, Youngstown, Christina Aguilera, 98(Degrees) and Aaron Carter as well as perennial favorites like "Boogie Shoes" by KC and the Sunshine Band, "We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions" by Queen, "We Are Family" by Sister Sledge -- and the hit track "Just the Two of Us" by mega-star Will Smith. |
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| Building a 21st century star - Mar 06, 2000 |  Not long after winning the award for Best New Artist at the Grammys, Christina Aguilera steps inside a black superstretch limo and drives off into the Los Angeles night. Breathless (was it the respectful nods she got from Elton John backstage?), she picks up her cell phone and talks to her mom and then to MTV's Total Request Live host Carson Daly - you know, the people who really count on a night like this. Then she turns to the reporter in the car with her. "Did I sound OK onstage?" she asks. "I was in shock. I was preparing at that moment to put on my loser face." She's g... |
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| Christina and Britney on Disney - Mar 07, 2000 | Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera will be the first pop stars to present "2 Hour Tour" on the Disney Channel.
The new series hopes to help you musicians break into the industry, Dotmusic reports.
Both Britney and Christina got their start on Disney's "Mickey Mouse Club", and Christina was a contestant on Disney's "Star Search" show.
"2 Hour Tour" focuses on young pop stars or groups who, while on tour in the U.S., audition three local music acts and pick one as an opening act.
The first episode show Christina finding a boy band from Miami. Sh... |
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| Bone Thugs, Pumpkins Can't Touch Santana - Mar 08, 2000 | With the influx of strong debuts this week, three big pop albums tumbled from the Top 10. Christina Aguilera's self-titled debut fell eight spots to No. 11; Eiffel 65's Europop slipped nine spots to No. 14; and Celine Dion's All the Way dropped all the way to No. 15 with 102,000 units, marking the disc's first week outside the Top 10.
Read on for the whole article. |
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| Rating the Teen Queens - Mar 09, 2000 | | Dani says: I really respect Christina a lot as an artist. I think she has got one of the most beautiful voices out there right now. She's not afraid to go all out with her outrageous styles and Indian prints. She's very individual. She can sing and dance and just has a talent for music, but I also see her as being kind of fake at time. I also think she is very pretty. |
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| Christina at the prom - Mar 14, 2000 | Will Christina sing at your prom?
According to the diva's official site, Christina will perform live at one very lucky high school.
There are two ways to enter the contest. Fans can either fill out a form and send it in, or get a CD sampler from the website and be automatically entered to win.... |
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| Pop Sensation Has Students Singing in the Rain - Mar 14, 2000 |  For most schools it would be a drag - a Monday lunchtime in the rain.
But students at Rangitoto College sang in it.
Pop sensation Christina Aguilera was up on the verandah overlooking the school sports fields, and this was no time to worry about getting wet.
Flanked by three male dancers, the former Disney Mouseketeer sang Genie in a Bottle and What a Girl Wants, the number one singles that shot her to fame and saw her edge out fellow teen-idol Britney Spears for best new artist at the recent Grammy awards.
"Are you loving the rain?" she asked the students. "You are so g... |
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| Age Before "Beauty"? - Mar 14, 2000 | | The study also looked at Emmy and Grammy winners and, not surprisingly , the same trend played out across all awards shows. (Carlos Santana and Christina Aguilera anyone?) |
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| Musicians Around The World Join Internet Jam Session - Mar 15, 2000 | | Nowadays, songs from Grammy-Award-winning artists like Christina Aguilera may take weeks or months of post-production work using digital audio production tools to blend the right mix of instrumentals and vocals. |
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| Christina Scores Headlining Tour, Doll - Mar 16, 2000 |  Grammy winner Christina Aguilera will be popping up a lot in the coming months, with a doll hitting toy stores and her first headlining tour making the rounds.
The singer will kick off her tour this summer, with state fair dates slated to begin in mid-July and a full-production tour of 35 to 40 dates scheduled for a mid-August start.
Aguilera is already in toy stores across America, in doll form at least. The star has spawned a singing Christina Aguilera collectors' doll. With a push of the navel, the mini-Christina belts out her hit "Genie In A Bottle." A fashion Christina doll (... |
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| Christina on tour and in toy stores - Mar 20, 2000 | Fresh from her Grammy victory, Christina Aguilera is popping up in toy stores everywhere.
Christina will set off on her first headlining tour this summer, MTV reports. But fans who can't wait until the summer to catch a glimpse of their favourite singer can take home miniature versions of the blond pop star.
Two of the Christina dolls -- the singing doll that pipes out "Genie In A Bottle" when her belly-button is pushed and the "fashion" version of the singer that comes complete with a blue halter top and orange track pants -- are already in stores. A talking Christina d... |
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| Santana Snuffs the "Dragon" - Mar 22, 2000 | A couple mainstays, Kid Rock and Christina Aguilera, both climbed one spot.The Kid's Devil Without a Cause took the number 8 seat selling 105,000 copies (down only 1,000 from the previous week) and Aguilera's self-titled debut took the 10th slot with a steady 99,000 in sales.
Read on for the whole article. |
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| Christina plans her future - Mar 23, 2000 | Christina Aguilera is discovering that winning a Grammy doesn't mean you get to take a break from your career.
The blond pop star is already thinking about her dolls, her new album and appearing in a movie, Entertainment Weekly reports.
There are two Christina dolls in stores now, although the singer hopes that they'll improve over time.
"I cringe a little bit when I see them," she told EW, "because it's not that cute. We're going to try to get it to look a little bit more like me because I'm kind of unhappy about it right now. But I thought it was something cool that youn... |
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| Christina Aguilera to Fulfil Her Prom Dreams - Mar 24, 2000 | CHRISTINA AGUILERA is fulfilling her childhood dream - by becoming a prom queen for the night.
The 19-year-old singing superstar is going back to her high school days with a unique contest for her devoted fans.
Teenagers are being given the chance to have the GENIE IN A BOTTLE star come to their prom to perform a special concert for their school.
Spokesperson for the competition NICK CHROUCHE says, "It's all very exciting. All American fans have to do is enter with their name and address and one of them will be picked out of a bag.
"We're going to be choosing the lucky winner ... |
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| With Three Albums In Works, Christina Aguilera Eyes Long Career - Mar 27, 2000 | Teen star says she'll 'try to take pop a little deeper than it is right now.'
LOS ANGELES — While her debut LP remains one of the hottest sellers in the U.S., Christina Aguilera is planning three new albums to ensure that her residence in the limelight isn't temporary.
In addition to the Spanish-language and Christmas albums she plans to deliver before the end of the year, the 19-year-old pop star already is setting goals for her next English-language, nonholiday LP.
"I really want try to take pop a little deeper than it is right now," Aguilera said backstage at the Grammy Awards... |
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| Christina's Christmas carols - Mar 29, 2000 | | Christina Aguilera says the R’n’B's getting harder on her next album and she's got her eye on Jay-Z to give her a hand in doing just that. She's also planning a Christmas album, and top of her list is a song from her favourite film of all time - ‘The Sound of Music’. Christina will be covering ‘Climb Every Mountain’, but it doesn't stop there - she's also pencilled in ‘Silent Night’!... |
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| Mtvi Flips Switch on New Sonicnet.com Campaign - Mar 29, 2000 | As part of its five-year, $100 million commitment to promote its properties, MTVi took the wraps off a campaign for sonicnet.com featuring big stars like Christina Aguilera, Sting, Yo-Yo Ma, and James Brown.
The television ads, which use the tagline "me music, it's mine," highlight the personalization available on sonicnet.com, so fans of different genres of music can get what they're looking for.
"The 'me music, it's mine' campaign celebrates MTVi's position as the number one online music entertainment company and reflects our commitment to providing a personalized, interac... |
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| Christina's Christmas - Mar 30, 2000 | It's only March but already teen pop diva Christina Aguilera is looking forward to Christmas. She is planning a Christmas album which will include carols like the old classic 'Silent Night' and a dollop of syrup with 'Climb Every Mountain', taken from her all-time favourite film 'The Sound Of Music'.
On a less schmaltzy tip, Christina's also planning a new R&B influenced album. She promises this will be a much harder affair than her previous material and she's hoping to persuade rapper Jay-Z to help her give it that edge.... |
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| Christina Aguilera To Sing At Pirates Home Opener And On TV - Mar 30, 2000 | | Grammy Award-winner and Pittsburgh native Christina Aguilera will sing the National Anthem at the Pittsburgh Pirates home opener against the Houston Astros at Three Rivers Stadium on April 3. The game is set to start at 7:05 p.m. ET. Aguilera will follow that performance with an April 8 performance of her new single "I Turn To You" on NBC's Saturday Night Live. Then, on April 11, Aguilera will perform the same song on The Rosie O'Donnell Show.Aguilera was the only woman asked to perform at VH1's Men Strike Back concert along with **D'Angelo**, **Sting**, the Backstreet Boys, Enrique ... |
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| Christina Aguilera to Record Christmas Disc - Mar 30, 2000 | Teen pop singer Christina Aguilera is to release a Christmas album this year - featuring songs from hit musical "The Sound of Music."
The "Genie in a Bottle" hitmaker will record her own version of "Climb Every Mountain" from the movie. Other tracks on the album will include traditional carols "Silent Night" and "O Holy Night."
In the meantime, Aguilera is working on a Spanish language album, along with her second "proper" album - which will showcase some unlikely collaborations.
She says, "I want to do duets with people who... |
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| Shania Twain Makes Music History - Mar 31, 2000 | On the heels of her Best New Artist Grammy, Christina Aguilera's self-titled debut reaches the six million mark...
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| Christina Aguilera: She's Hot, She's Sexy and She's Downloadable - Mar 31, 2000 |  It's 9 P.M., March 16, at Pittsburgh International Airport, and word is spreading fast: Christina Aguilera is in the house. Sipping a pineapple smoothie, the 19-year-old singer — a vision of teen cool with her ankle-length denim skirt, faded jean jacket, and meticulously messy bottle-blond mane — barely makes it to the boarding area before the fan floodgates open. l ''I ran all the way from the parking lot,'' one out-of-breath teenage boy tells Aguilera. ''You don't understand, my friend is obsessed with you. He, like, cries whenever your song comes on the radio.'' Nodding politely to that som... |
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