charts on the momentum of the number one single "Genie in a Bottle," which was followed in short order by another chart-topper in "What a Girl Wants," which happened to be the first number one of 2000. Christina's debut reached the top of the U.S. RCA released Christina Aguilera late in the summer of 1999, several months after Britney's ".Baby One More Time" began the teen pop boom. Her first big break arrived in 1998, when she recorded "Reflection" for the soundtrack of Disney's Mulan, a performance that led to a contract with RCA Records. three years later in the Golden Stag International Festival. The New Mickey Mouse Club lasted for two years and after its cancellation, Aguilera began working behind the scenes of the pop machine, cutting a duet with Japanese pop singer Keizo Nakanishi called "All I Wanna Do," then representing the U.S. Christina joined a cast that also featured future stars Britney Spears, Ryan Gosling, Justin Timberlake, JC Chasez, and Keri Russell.
CHRISTINA AGUILERA ALBUMS IN ORDER PROFESSIONAL
This was the true beginning of Aguilera's professional career, leading her to joining Disney Channel's reboot of The Mickey Mouse Club in 1992.
By age six, she began performing regularly in local talent shows, working her way to an appearance on the nationally televised competition Star Search. Soon, Aguilera distanced herself from the rest of the teen pop pack beginning with her carnal sophomore set, Stripped, a heavy R&B album from 2002 that found its greatest success with the ballad "Beautiful." Christina may have overemphasized her sexual side with singles like "Dirrtty," but by the time of 2006's Back To Basics, it was clear that Aguilera was the most musically ambitious, and reliable, pop diva of the boom.īorn on Staten Island on December 18, 1980, Aguilera spent her early childhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Initially, it was difficult to see Christina outside of the prism of Britney, whose 1999 success launched the new millennium's teen pop boom, but Christina's big hits of 1999 - "Genie in a Bottle," "What a Girl Wants," "Come on Over" - more than held their own with ".Baby One More Time," while revealing a vocalist with considerably more power and range than her erstwhile rival. A leader in the parade of Mickey Mouse Club veterans who stormed pop at the turn of the millennium, Christina Aguilera was the sexy, brassy diva of the bunch - the Rolling Stones to Britney Spears' Beatles, as it were.Ī leader in the parade of Mickey Mouse Club veterans who stormed pop at the turn of the millennium, Christina Aguilera was the sexy, brassy diva of the bunch - the Rolling Stones to Britney Spears' Beatles, as it were.
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