CHICAGO - This week marks the 20th anniversary of the passing of Aaliyah, the 22-year-old R&B singer whose stratospheric rise was cut tragically short when she and eight others were killed in a plane crash.In her brief life, the singer (born Aaliyah Haughton) recorded three studio albums,...
Unfortunately, their blossoming love story was cut short by Aaliyah's untimely death in a plane crash in August 2001. Damon Dash, aka Dame Dash, is a prominent American entrepreneur, music producer, and actor. He is known in the music industry as the co-founder of Roc-A-Fella Records ...
Aaliyah died in a tragic plane crash in 2001. Timbaland, the producer of her ’90s hits, including “Try Again,” has maintained in the media that Drake should not produce an album of new material unless both he and the singer’s other former collaborator, Missy Elliott, are each involved...
The body of the 22-year-old R&B songstress and budding actress, killed with eight others in a plane crash in the Bahamas Saturday, was flown to Newark International Airport on Tuesday and taken to the Frank E. Campbell Funeral home in New York, where friends and family came and paid the...
where Aaliyah just waved goodbye to Damon Dash before flying off to tragedy. There’s not much more they could have done — the last thing I wanted to see was some fake plane made of Legos smashing on someone’s kitchen floor to simulate a crash. But I do agree that the...
On August 25, 2001, after filming the video, Aaliyah and about 9-11 of her entourage took off from Marsh Harbour airport at 6:50pm EDT in a small Cessna 404 en route to Opa-Locka, Florida. A few minutes after take-off, the plane crashed about 200 feet from the runaway, killing Aa...
Everything is worth it. The hard work, the times when you're tired, the times where you're a bit sad . . . In the end, it's all worth it because it really makes me happy. There's nothing better than loving what you do. ...
“I’m sorry,” and I’m like what’s wrong and she said I just heard Aaliyah passed in a plane crash and I’m like no way. This was back when we used to run to the radio. So I turned the radio on, I’m pretty sure it was Hot 97 at the time and I took my speaker ...
The "Try Again" singer died in 2001 after a plane crash in the Bahamas. She was 22. Rex Features via AP Images In July 2017, a feature by BuzzFeed News alleged that the rapper was holding women hostage in a "cult" against their will. Some parents of the women allegedly residi...
Ernie: It was a shock to hear about one day out of the blue that she lost her life in a plane crash along with other people. We looked upon it with a sense of disbelief, but music has a way of connecting people across generations. And I’m glad that that song being done in 1976...