Christina Aguilera

Language level: Advanced

Source: Speak Up

Standard: British accent

CHRISTINA AGUILERA

My life as a Sex Goddess

Christina Aguilera is currently one of the music industry’s hottest stars. Although she is probably best known for her sexy blonde image, she is actually a genuinely talented singer who knows and appreciates the history of popular music. This was evident in her nostalgic album, Back to Basics. As she explains in this interview, music for her was always a form of escape:

Christina Aguilera

Standard: American accent

Ever since I was little…actually, I will say that I did use…you know, music as on escape. You know, I didn’t have the best environment growing up, you know there was a lot of abuse and whatnot in my household as a child, and so music was my ultimate escape, you know, I would go up to my room and shut my door and get lost in my music. And I think it’s true to this day that it’s almost therapeutic for me to write and to record my music.

MY HUSBAND AND I…

Christina Aguilera has certainly helped promote her sex goddess image by posting naked for magazines like GQ. Rumour has it that her husband, music industry executive Jordan Bratman, is not tohappy about this:

Christina Aguilera:

But no, the great thing about Jordi is, you, whenever I do shoots like that or whenever I’m a little more provocative in maybe a photo shoot or a picture, he just stands back and has the biggest smile on his face, because he knows that, at the end of the day, it’s him that I go home to and nobody else and he actually likes the fact, he always laughs it off whenever people ask if he has a problem with me or whatnot. He’s saying: “why would I? You know, it’s great having a sexy wife!” so he always makes me smile when it comes to things like that, but, you know, he’s my number one fan.

NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS

In actual fact Christina Aguilera believes she is mellowing with age.

Christina Aguilera:

There have been a lot of, you know, emotional changes over the years, and I think, as you grow older, you get smarter and wiser and stronger, and that’s kind of what I’ve been going through over the last few years, it’s been a crazy thing, you know, being in this business at quite a young age, you know, you learn the hard way a lot by having kind of…success at an early age, you get a lot of people around you for the wrong reasons and you kind of sift through the bad ones, and, at this place, I’m just one the happiest I’ve ever been, really. I’m at a place where I feel my…my instincts have sharpened quite a bit, and I have really great people around me, so I’m very content.

A star is Born…(no audio available) 

Christina Maria Aguilera was born on Staten Island, New York in 1980. Her father was an Ecuatorian-born U.S. Army sergeant who is said to have been “physically and emotionally abusive,” while her mother was Canatian.

“The couple divorced when Christina was seven and she moved (with her mother and  younger sister, Rachel) to her grandmother’s house in Rochester, Pennsylvania (as suburb of Pittsburgh).

It was her grandmother’s who recognized her musical ability and she soon became a local phenomenon, swimming talent contests and singing “The Star-Spangled Banner” before matches involving Pittsburgh teams. She made her recording debut in 1999. In 2001 she sang a cover of “Lady Marmalade”” (with Lil’ Kim, Maya and Pink) for the movie Moulin Rouge.