Christina María Aguilera (born December 18, 1980) is an American singer,
songwriter, and actress. Born in Staten Island, New York and raised in
Rochester and Wexford, Pennsylvania, she appeared on the television
series Star Search and The Mickey Mouse Club in her childhood. Aguilera
rose to prominence as a bubblegum pop singer in the 1990s, her
self-titled debut album (1999) debuted at number one on the U.S.
Billboard 200, and spawned the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles
"Genie in a Bottle", "What a Girl Wants", and "Come On Over Baby (All I
Want Is You)". She experienced moderate success worldwide with her
follow-up records Mi Reflejo and My Kind of Christmas (2000), and earned
her fourth number-one single in the United States with a cover version
of "Lady Marmalade" in 2001. Displeased with her lack of input in her
image and music, Aguilera assumed creative control for her fourth studio
album, Stripped (2002), which draws influences from many genres
including soul, hip hop, Latin, and rock. The album spawned multiple
top-ten singles, including "Dirrty" and "Beautiful", and was one of the
best-selling albums of that year.Aguilera earned her second number-one
record in the United States with her fifth studio album, Back to Basics
(2006), which incorporates elements of 1920s–1940s blues, soul, and jazz
music. Two of its singles, "Ain't No Other Man" and "Hurt", charted in
the upper registers of record charts worldwide. In 2010, Aguilera
released her electronic-inspired sixth studio album, Bionic, although it
made little commercial impact. Later that year, Aguilera starred
alongside Cher in the film Burlesque. In 2011, Aguilera became an