Los Angeles? When R&B singer Aaliyah died in a plane crash last summer, she had been working on roles in three movies. Only one role survived her that of a 4,000-year-old vampire in “Queen of the ...

In an R & B world ever-ready to reward assertive and angry singers – from a combative Beyonce Knowles to a stormy Mary J. Blige – Aaliyah wafted in as the last innocent. Her tone was porcelain smooth, ...

Singer-actress Aaliyah may have died in an August plane crash, but her music lives on. Or at least it’s trying to. The 22-year-old R&B star, who also had landed a key role in the sequel to “The Matrix ...

How do you market a ghoulish movie about the Mother of All Vampires who “takes pleasure in only one thing ... destroying life” when your young star is herself dead? This was the dilemma confronting ...

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Aaliyah was born on January 16, 1979, in Brooklyn, New York and was raised in Detroit, Michigan. She knew she wanted to sing from an early age, so she competed on the television show Star Search at ...

Virgin Records has stiffed a Bahamas funeral home for $68,000 – the cost of preparing R&B singer Aaliyah’s body and flying it home after her death in a plane crash last year. Loretta Turner, director ...

Family and fans of Aaliyah are remembering the “Are You That Somebody” singer on what would have been her 40th birthday. “Happy birthday sweet angel!!!” read a tribute from Aaliyah’s official Twitter ...