Aniyah

**Aniyah Kendra Cirugeda** (/ə.nəˈyəh/; born December 30, 1995), known mononymously as **Aniyah** is an American singer-songwriter, actress, producer, dancer and businesswoman. She is regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 21th century for their performances and their controversies such as in her career or personal life.

Born and raised in Memphis, Aniyah moved to New York City to began her career as actres, appearing in commercials and in plays television series and films, such as *Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide* (2004–05),, *Just for Kicks* (2006), *Goldilocks and the Three Bears*  (2007), *The Trail*  (2009), and *Goldilocks and the Three Bears 2* (200). In 2011, "Don't Let Them" was released through Sony Music Entertainment to promote 2011s film *Maggie & Dougie*, that same month she signed with the label Epic Records at age 15. In 2012, her eponymous debut album was released, which spread the top-three single, "Hush", and later has became household with the release of her certfied Multi-platinum second and third albums *Pocketful of Love* (2013), and *Let Yourself* (2014), established her as one leading figure in the music industry. In 2015, her concert film became the second highest-grossing concert movie in the history, and released her first Christmas album *Christmas Town*. She also starred in the commercial success movies, *Fangirl* (2016), *I Think I Love You*  (2017) and *Justice* (2018). In 2018, her fifth studio album *Pleasure* was relased, and immediately the best-selling album of year. She spread eight U.S chart-topping singles: "Soldier Boy", "Pocketful of Love", "Get Out Of My Mind", "Powerless", "All My Love", "Overflow", Stronger than You Know", her collaboration "Searching For Love" with Steve Aoki, "Physical Attraction", and "Get On My Feet".

Recognized as one of the best-selling music artists worldwide, having estimated 160 million records worldwide. Her achievements include several *Guinness World Records*, 16 Billboard Music Awards, 12 Grammy Awards, 2 Latin Grammy Awards, 1 Golden Globe Award and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Aniyah was youngest person to appeared in *Time*s 100 most influential people in the world, and top-earning women in music, and was named *Billboard'*s Woman of the Year in 2015 and 2018. Enjoys a highly successful business career, she realese her fashion line alongside fast-fashion C&A, beauty salon, franchise, a fragance collection, and eyewear collection, also she is known for her philanthropic work with own Love Foundation, and other entanglements with several humanitarian causes.

## Personal life

Aniyah was born in Memphis, Tennessee in the United States on December 30, 1996, the only daughter of the Brazilian English teacher former Elizabeth "Eliza" Péres (born. September 30, 1975– death. August 18, 2016), and Spanish architect Santiago Cirugeda (born November 22, 1970). Her parents moved to the United States when when Eliza was pregnant for three months. During her childhood, she started going to singing class, classical ballet, piano and guitar, and at the age of seven she began going to acting classes, where he came to present several theatre plays.

In June 2000, her parents separated and her mother and she moved to New York City. After many years trying to get back together, they remarried in 2006. In an interview in 2013, Aniyah said who preferred her parents separate than they did together, because their fights made her very unhappy. Despite remarriage, their relationship remained the same. They remain together until Eliza to die on the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in August 18, 2016, due suffering a stroke. Despite media pressure, Aniyah says she prefers not to talk about his mother's death publicly. In honor of her mother, she made a Celine Dion's "Goodbye's (The Saddest Word)" cover and posted on its YouTube channel, and received 15 million views in less than 24 hours, also made the tattoo of the letter E, in his ear, also has other tattoo; "Take me deeper than my feet could ever wander and my faith will be made stronger" on his left arm, what is an excerpt from the "Hillsong United's Oceans (Where Feet May Fail) song.

**Attempted murder**

At the end of January 2016, Aniyah spent his vacation with his family in Memphis, Tennessee . On account of being a small and safe town, she was only accompanied by three security guards. During her overst, she was staying at her father's house, who was a little away from the city. On account of the House not being used much, she did not have a very safe safety circuit.

An obsessed fan, 27-year-old Patrick Hanson, had planned to break into the house two days earlier. At 5:40 p.m, he approached Aniyah's security guard, Marco Martinez, who was standing outside the house with a gun he made him come into the house. A second security guard, who had seen what was happening through the security cameras, tipped off the police and tried to warn Aniyah, but she was near the pool, a few feet from Hanson. On seeing Aniyah Hanson began cursing her and saying several meaningless sentences of offences. He soon pointed the gun towards her chest, and said if she didn't kneel he would shoot. His family at the time, was inside the house with the other Aniyah's security guard, Joseph Paul, who tried to negotiate with Hanson. When Hanson realize the presence of the police. He made two shots, one of them hit the arm of Martinez. After negotiating for 2 hours, at 7:42 p.m he decided to turn himself in to police.

The news about the attack began to spread, becoming an international news in few minutes. The trial of Hanson, took place on December 10, 2018, more than 230 paparazzi and several TV channels followed the trial from out
side. Hanson was sentenced to jail time of 15 years imprisonment in the scheme closed. On occasion, he was granted the right to appeal in liberty.

**Controversies and health issue**

In July 2017, she filed a $32 million lawsuit against tabloid magazine *Star*, which cited that she addicted to heroin. She also sued American blogger Perez Hilton in that same year for posting pictures of a naked woman claiming to be her.

Since fifteen years old, Aniyah's took some types of remedies due to your anxiety and insomnia. She was taken to the hospital several times during the year of 2016, due to your anxiety. After death of your mother, she developed a kind of Clonazepam addiction. She began to treat your addiction in mid November 2017, remained three weeks in a rehabilitation clinic. Aniyah during a personal video posted on your twitter account, she told your bad experience with Clonazepam, and warned that only can be taken with prescription, if not, you're killing yourself. In December 19, 2017, she posted an open letter to thank their fans for their support and saying he was sober of Clonazepam, andit hasn't been taking for about a month. During January 14, 2018 she suffered a fall on the staircase of her house, in Brentwood, Los Angeles. Due to this fall, she underwent surgery in April 2018, on account of a lesson suffered in the left knee.

In an interview on February 2019 at late-night live television variety show Saturday Night Live, she assumed she smoked weed about two years ago, and that should be legalized worldwide. In June 2019, she declined a Coca-Cola contract valued at more than US$50 million, after the news was released, She explained that she declined the contract due to the accusations of the company, which donated money against abortion, and was supporter of the case.

**Relationships**

She had a relationship with his longtime friend Oliver Neill from May 2011 to January 2012. In October 2016, Neill died after suffering a motorcycle crash in Aniyah's hometown Memphis, Tennessee. In an interview in May 2018 to Ellen DeGeneres, she said she had lost contact with him since the end of their relationship in January 2012. In May 2012, while promoting eponymous debut album in Paris, France she met French rugby union Jules Plisson in the hotel restaurant we were both staying, and after two speculations months she took over the dating on her twitter account. After 7-years relationship, they broke up in June 2019.

## Business career and wealth

**Business endeavours**

*Further information*: *Aniyah's Collection for C&A*, *Aniyah's fragance collection*, *Angel's Beauty Shop*

Outside of music, Aniyah is an extremely successful entrepreneur. In December 2014, launched her first fashion line, a partnership with fast-fashion C&A under the name Aniyah's Collection for C&A, the collection operates in about 90 countries physically and through its official website, is available worldwide.

Their fragrance collection alongdise Coty, Inc., which released five fragrances, as May 2019, claimed to have sold 100 million bottles worldwide and has earned more than 6 billion dollars worldwide. In November 2017, she founded her own beauty salon franchise under the name Angel's Beauty Shop, initially open only in Los Angeles, New York City, London and Madrid, but due to high demand, it has spread to more than 10 different countries and 15 cities. In 2017, she launche her own eyewear collection, called Aniyah Eyewear. In 2017, released her *New York Times* best-seller book entitled, *Reasons,* and poetry book *No Filter*in 2019.

**Patrimony**

In January 2015, she bought a masion in Santa Monica, California, with a value estimated at US$5.39 million, in July that same year, she buy a luxury apartment in Egerton Crescent, London with a value estimated at US$4.12 million. In December 2016 buy a mansion in Brentwood, Los Angeles with a value estimated at US$10.4 million.

In January 2019, she buy a luxury mansion worth £8.3 million in Costa del Sol, Marbella in Spain. In April 2019, she buy the Orivaru Island for $9.1 millon in Maldives, where she started build along with her father, a resort and spa, planned to open in 2021. In May 2019, *Forbes*estimated her net worth at US$230 million in 2019.

## Discography

*Main article:* *Aniyah discography*, *Aniyah* *songs*, and *Aniyah* *videography*

* *Aniyah* (2012)
* *Pocketful of Love* (2013)
* *Let Yourself* (2014)
* *Christmas Town*(2015)
* *Pleasure* (2018)

## Filmography

*Main article:* *Aniyah filmography*

* *Goldilocks and the Three Bears* (2007)
* *The Trail* (2009)
* *Goldilocks and the Three Bears 2* (2009)
* *Maggie & Dougie* (2011)
* *Aniyah's Let Yourself Concert Film* (2015)
* *Fangirl* (2016)
* *I Think I Love You*  (2017)
* *Justice* (2018)

## Concert tours

*Main article:* *List of Aniyah live performances*

**Tours**

* Aniyah in Concert  (2012–13)
* The Pocketful of Love Tour (2013–14)
* Let Yourself Tour (2015)
* The Pleasure Show: World Tour (2019)

## Enterprises

*See also:* *List of Aniyah fashion brands*

* Aniyah's Collection for C&A (2014)
* Love Foundation (2015)
* Aniyah's Fragance Collection (2017)
* Angel's Beauty Shop(2017)
* Aniyah Eyewear (2018)

## Published works

* *Reasons* (February 23, 2017)
* *Reasons: Deluxe Edition* (October 26, 2017)
* *No Filter* (April 18, 2019)