My mom brought me up to believe that my talent is a gift and a blessing.
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Christina Aguilera
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About Christina Aguilera
Christina María Aguilera is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and television personality. An influential figure in music, Aguilera is noted for her four-octave vocal range, melismatic singing style, use of the whistle register, and continual reinventions of her image and artistry. Referred to as the "Voice of a Generation", she was ranked among the greatest singers of all time by Rolling Stone. Her works have incorporated socially conscious and sexual themes, generating both controversy …
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Christina AguileraI love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?
I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home.
I will not have my son grow up in a tension-filled home.
I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.
I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.
I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.
My future daughter is not going to go through what I did.
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To be given the opportunity to help shape new artists' careers and mentor them to see their dreams come to fruition is a task I welcome with open arms.
My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had other…
Right now I'm pretty single... My career is my boyfriend.
In order to effect great change, we need to look at how we can help those in our own communities as well as globally.
It's been a joy to be a part of other people's journey, to be able to inspire and be a part of new singers coming up in this business.
It can be hard in this business, especially when you're very young, to figure out who you can and can't trust.
Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America.
Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.
I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.
I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.
It's an amazing thing to say, 'I'm beautiful,' without feeling like you're cocky.