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More Than a Vixen: Aaliyah Dana Haughton (1979 – 2001)
There will probably never be another Queen of Urban Pop, just as there will never be another King of Pop. It’s hard to believe that today, eight years ago, I was reading about her death in the overseas military publication, Stars and Stripes. I remember thinking that it was joke – that someone at Stars and Stripes just hated Aaliyah until I saw it on the news, on MTV, on BET…it was unreal. Music keeps me going so you can believe that Aaliyah’s music helped to inspire me…and keep on inspiring me. Like Charles Wade said, Aaliyah was “more than a woman” with the honeyed voice and the signature belly…