Christina Aquilera was born in New York in 1980. As a nine-year-old she participates in a nationally broadcast talent hunt. With Britney Spears and two members of N'Sync, she can be seen three years later on the weekly Disney television show New Mickey Mouse Club. In 1998 she auditioned for the soundtrack for the Disney animated film Mulan for which she records the song Reflection. After Britney
… Spears, she is the second teenage star in 1999 to score an American number one hit with her debut single, Genie In A Bottle. This is the only agreement with Britney Spears, by the way. Christina Aquilera has a more mature sounding, beautiful and smooth voice with a wide range, comparable to that of Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston. The bouncy Genie In A Bottle and Come On Over (All I Want Is You) are not exactly representative of her debut CD, which further contains R & B-tinted pop ballads of which What A Girl Want, I Turn To You and especially Reflection are potential hits. (CK)more
