Christina María Aguilera (born December 18, 1980) is an American singer-songwriter, record producer and actress. Aguilera made her debut in Star Search in 1990. Three years later, she starred on The New Mickey Mouse Club. She was signed to RCA Records after making the song "Reflection" for the movie Mulan. Aguilera received a Best New Artist Grammy Award for her first album Christina Aguilera (1999). She made a Latin pop album, Mi Reflejo, and a Christmas album, My Kind of Christmas. Mi Reflejo won a Latin Grammy Award. Aguilera received Grammy Awards for her second album Stripped (2002), and her third album Back to Basics (2006). In 2008, she released her first greatest hits album, Keeps Gettin' Better – A Decade of Hits, a new song, "Dynamite", and new versions of her hits "Genie in a Bottle" and "Beautiful", called "Genie 2.0" and "You Are What You Are (Beautiful)". In 2011, Aguilera became a coach on The Voice.

Early life
Christina María Aguilera was born in Staten Island, New York, on December 18, 1980. Her parents Fausto Xavier Aguilera, was a soldier in the United States Army and Shelly Loraine (née Fidler), was a violinist and pianist, respectively. Her father has Ecuadorian ancestry. Her American mother has German, English, Irish, Scots-Irish, and French ancestry. Throughout her father's service in the Army, her family moved to various locations, including New Jersey, Texas, New York, and Japan. Her parents divorced when Aguilera was six years old. She, her mother, and her younger sister Rachel then lived at her grandmother's home in Rochester, Pennsylvania, a town outside Pittsburgh. Her mother later remarried.

Singing career
In October 2011 Aguilera performed "Smile" and "Dirty Diana" at Michael Jackson Forever.

2012–present
Aguilera released her seventh album Lotus on November 9, 2012. Two singles were released from the album. The first single, "Your Body", reached the top ten in Canada and the top 40 in the US. Aguilera made a Spanish song for the 2012 movie Casa de Mi Padre. Aguilera also sung a song on the sound track of the 2013 movie The Hunger Games: Catching Fire called "We Remain". She sang on the single version of A Great Big World's single "Say Something", which reached number one in Canada and Australia and the top five in other countries.

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

Aguilera is a soprano. She has a whistle register.

Acting career
In 2010 Aguilera acted in a film for the first time. It was a musical called Burlesque. She played a woman called Ali. She sang eight of the songs in the soundtrack.

Discography

Albums

Studio albums
 Christina Aguilera (1999)
 Mi Reflejo (2000)
 My Kind of Christmas (2000)
 Stripped (2002)
 Back to Basics (2006)
 Bionic (2010)
 Lotus (2012)
 Liberation (2018)

Soundtracks
 Burlesque (2011)

Compilations
 Keeps Gettin' Better – A Decade of Hits (2008)

Demo albums
 Just Be Free (2001)

References

Other websites 

 Official US website

1980 births
Living people
Actors from Staten Island
American child singers
American movie actors
American pop musicians
American R&B musicians
Brit Award winners
 
Grammy Award winners
Latin singers
Mouseketeers
Musicians from Staten Island
Singers from New York City
Latin Grammy Award winners
American contemporary R&B singers