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Aaliyah Dana Haughton, simply known as Aaliyah meaning "The highest most exalted, among the best", was an American R&B and pop singer and actress. She was born in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, New York to Michael and Diane Haughton. She attended the Detroit School of Arts and graduated in 1997 with a 4.0 GPA.

Introduced to audiences by R&B-pop singer R. Kelly, she became famous during the mid-1990s with several hit records from the songwriting-production team of Missy Elliott and Timbaland. She found success with her debut album Age Ain't Nothing But a Number, while introducing a "street but sweet" style which would become her trademark throughout her career followed by two more albums, One In a Million and the self-titled Aaliyah. In addition to her commercial success, collaborations with Timbaland helped shape the sound of R&B in the later half of the 1990s. She also modeled for Tommy Hilfiger, appeared in a Victoria Secret ad and starred in three motion pictures, Romeo Must Die, Queen of the Damned and Matrix Reloaded, before she and eight others died in a plane crash in the Bahamas on August 25, 2001 after filming the music video for the single "Rock The Boat". Since then, she has achieved commercial success with the singles "Miss You" and "I Care 4 U".

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