Christina Mara Aguilera is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and television personality born December 18, 1980. Aguilera has been dubbed the “Voice of a Generation” and is renowned for her four-octave vocal range and capacity for high notes.
She shot to fame with her self-titled debut album and is credited for inspiring the resurrection of teen music in the late 1990s and early 2000s. She is frequently credited as an influence by other artists for her paintings, which incorporate feminism, sexuality, and domestic abuse and have received critical acclaim and controversy.
Christina Aguilera parents: Fausto Xavier Aguilera, Shelly Loraine Kearns
Her mother’s background includes German, Irish, Welsh, and Dutch, and her father was born in Ecuador. He was physically and emotionally abusive, according to Aguilera. She turned to music as an escape from her stressful home.
Aguilera, her mother, and her younger sister Rachel moved into their grandmother’s house in Rochester, a Pittsburgh suburb, after her parents divorced when she was six years old.
Later, her mother had a son named Michael with Jim Kearns, with whom she had a second marriage. In 2012, Aguilera expressed a desire to reconcile with her father after years of separation.
