Aaliyah

Aaliyah is interred in the Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum, in Hartsdale, New York. Mary Astor has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in recognition of her services to Motion Pictures, at 6701 Hollywood Boulevard. It also contained a number of Aaliyah songs form the Blackground vaults that Aaliyah had recorded over the course of her career including "Miss You," which became the album's main single and features Missy Elliott, Lil Kim, Toni Braxton, DMX, and others paying tribute to Aaliyah in its video. She was interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California. In 2002, a posthumous greatest hits collection, I Care 4 You, was released in Aaliyah's name. She lived her final years in a Motion Picture Home, before dying as a result of a heart attack. Aaliyah was to have had a supporting role as Harold Perrineau Jr.'s wife in the two sequels to The Matrix; her role was ultimately filled by Nona Gaye. She wrote several novels during this period, and in 1971 published a second memoir that chronicled her Hollywood career, and provided her with another best seller.

Sadly, some of the album's biggest hits happened only after Aaliyah's death, including the remaining two singles, "More Than A Woman" and "I Care 4 U" which was a huge radio hit even without a music video. A heart condition had caused Astor ill health since the early 1950s, and by the mid 1960s her health had deteriorated to the point that she was forced to retire. "Rock the Boat" went on to become an enormous posthumous hit on radio and on video channels, and the tragic news of her death gave her album an enormous sales boost, pushing it to #1 on Billboard. She received good reviews for her role in Return to Peyton Place (1961), and played her final film role in Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), in the small but integral role of Jewel Mayhew. Aaliyah's untimely death heavily effect both her family, her friends (including Timbaland and Missy Elliott), and the entertainment industry as a whole, which almost unanimously praised Aaliyah for being a inspirational and talented individual. It was a best seller. It was later determined by investigators that the plane was overloaded by several hundred pounds. She published her memoirs in 1959 and the book titled My Story, detailed her troubled personal life and battle with alcoholism, while scarcely mentioning her film career.

All nine people aboard, including Aaliyah, the pilot, and the other seven passengers, were either killed by the crash or died later at the hospital. By the 1950s her Hollywood career had faded considerably and she made few film appearances, but she found success in the theater and in television. The plane took off, but quickly descended and crashed in the forest. By the end of the decade she was playing motherly roles such as Mrs March in Little Women (1949). After shooting had wrapped, Aaliyah and her entourage boarded a small airplane, which was to take them to Miami, Florida. These successes were not enough to propel Astor into the upper echelon of film stars, but she continued working throughout the 1940s in such films as The Palm Beach Story (1942), Across the Pacific (also 1942 and costarring Humphrey Bogart) and Meet Me in St. Louis (1944). Aaliyah traveled to the Bahamas in August 2001 to film the "Rock The Boat" video with director Hype Williams. An Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress resulted, and for the rest of her life, Astor acknowledged Davis for her generosity.

She also filmed a video for the single "More Than A Woman," before it was decided that "Rock The Boat" would become Aaliyah's second single. At Bette Davis's suggestion she was cast in The Great Lie (also 1941), with Davis deliberately stepping back to allow Astor to shine in her key scenes. "We Need A Resolution" was the last Aaliyah video released before her passing. In 1941 she played the role for which she would be most famous, as Brigid O'Shaunessy in John Huston's The Maltese Falcon opposite Humphrey Bogart. in 2002. She appeared in Dodsworth (1936) and The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) and the success of both films, and the public's acceptance of Astor, assured the studios that she was still a viable commercial property. Most of Aaliyah was recorded in Australia, as the singer was filming scenes for her second and final movie role, that of Queen Akasha in Queen of the Damned, released by Warner Bros. During divorce proceedings her estranged husband produced a diary Astor had kept, which detailed among other events, her affair with playwright George Kaufman. The sexually explicit diary was entered as evidence in court, and extracts were published in newspapers throughout the world. Determined to separate her private and professional lives, Astor refused to apologise and her career was renewed by the huge level of publicity.

However, the album was a critical success, and the video for "We Need A Resolution" received heavy MTV2 play. By 1936, her career had begun to lose momentum until she became the subject of a widely publicised scandal. "We Need A Resolution," the first single from her double-platinum third album, Aaliyah, was released in spring of 2001 and was considered a commercial failure. She achieved success playing opposite John Barrymore in Beau Brummell (1924) and Don Juan (1926), and her stature as a film star continued to grow steadily with the advent of "talking pictures". In 2002, she would be showcased, in her final role, as Akasha in the film adaptation of the Anne Rice novel, The Queen of the Damned. She was selected as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1926. Aaliyah contributed four songs to the film's soundtrack album, including "Back In One Piece," a duet with DMX (who has a minor role in Romeo Must Die), and the international smash, "Try Again." "Try Again" was the first song ever to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart based solely on the strength of its radio airplay, without any single sales factored in (there was no single released for consumer purchase). Born Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke in Quincy, Illinois, Astor was signed to a Hollywood contract at the age of 14 after winning a beauty contest.

The film was notable for its mainstream success despite featuring Asian and African American characters in the lead roles and having few white Americans in the cast. Mary Astor (May 3, 1906 - September 25, 1987) was a US film actress. In 2000, she co-starred in the martial-arts film Romeo Must Die with Jet Li. Its video was the third most played on MTV that year, and the song's success began to make Aaliyah a household name. In 1998, Aaliyah had a huge hit with "Are You That Somebody," the main single from the Doctor Doolittle soundtrack album.

She was the youngest ever to do a soundtrack for a Disney film. The song was nominated for an Academy Award, and Aaliyah performed the song at the 1997 Academy Awards ceremony. In 1997, Aaliyah apeared on the soundtrack album from the 1997 animated feature Anastasia, singing the pop version of "Journey To The Past". During this period, Aaliyah would also make guest appearances on albums by artists such as Missy Elliott, Timbaland & Magoo, Ginuwine, and Playa, and Elliott, Timbaland, and Playa's frontman Steven Garrett (aka "Static") would remain Aaliyah's principal collaborators for the duration of her career.

Other singles from the album included "4 Page Letter" and "Hot Like Fire". One In A Million featured the international smash hit, "If Your Girl Only Knew," the platinum single "One In A Million," and the gold single "The One I Gave My Heart To," a ballad written by Diane Warren. The album eventually went double platinum, making Aaliyah a major star, and igniting the highly successful careers of Elliott and Timbaland. One In A Million, Aaliyah's sophomore album, was chiefly written and produced by then-unknowns Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott and Tim "Timbaland" Mosley, and released in late 1996.

Neither party ever publicly admitted to the union, and R. Kelly did not work on any of Aaliyah's future recordings. Kelly, the producer of Age Ain't Nothing but a Number. Vibe magazine published a copy of their marriage certificate in 1995, claiming that Aaliyah falsified her age and claimed she was 18 so that her and Kelly could be married, and that both parties had the marriage quickly annuled when the press found out about the union. It was briefly rumored that in 1994, when she was 15, she was married to singer/songwriter R. The album eventually reached platinum status and featured the successful singles "Back And Forth", "Age Ain't Nothing but a Number," and "At Your Best (You Are Love)," a cover of a 1976 Isley Brothers single.

Signing to her uncle's Blackground label in 1993, Aaliyah released her debut album, Age Ain't Nothing but a Number, in 1994. Aaliyah was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up in Detroit, Michigan. Professionally known as simply Aaliyah, she also branched out into acting before her death in a plane crash in 2001 at the age of 22. Aaliyah Dana Haughton (January 16, 1979 – August 25, 2001) was an American rhythm and blues singer.

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