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CelebSweet » Christina Aguilera Photoshoot Singer, songwriter Christina Maria Aguilera was born on December 18, 1980 in Staten Island, New York. Aguilera began her career as a cast member on the Mickey Mouse Club where her rapid rise to stardom and hit single Genie In A Bottle earned her a Grammy award for Best New Artist.
Other hit singles include What A Girl Wants, Come on Over Baby, Lady Marmalade, and the sexually charged Dirrty.
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CelebSweet » Christina Aguilera Photoshoot Early Life

Born Christina Maria Aguilera on December 18, 1980, in Staten Island, New York, to parents Fausto Xavier Aguilera and his wife, Shelly Loraine Fidler. Her early home life was troubled. Christina's father, an Ecuadorian immigrant and sergeant in the U.S. Army, was an abusive husband. It wasn't until Aguilera was 6 that her mother managed to end the marriage and move her two daughters (Christina and her younger sister, Rachel) to a new life in Rochester, Pennsylvania. Christina Aguilera picture 3

CelebSweet » Christina Aguilera Photoshoot From an early age Aguilera loved music, a gift she no doubt inherited from her musical mother, an experienced violin and piano player. By the time she was in elementary school, Aguilera's big voice had swept through a number of local talent shows, causing harsh envy from her schoolmates and even some parents. It became so bad that eventually Christina's mother made the decision to home-school her daughter.

Still, Christina continued to perform, and in 1990 she earned a spot on the nationally syndicated television program, Star Search. There, the 9-year-old prodigy wowed audiences with a mesmerizing rendition of Etta James' "A Sunday Kind of Love," to take home second place. Christina Aguilera picture 4