Remembering Aaliyah

It's been 8 years since she died, and will continue to be missed!

Who Is Keshia Chante`?

There has been alot of buzz going around about this young artist playing the late Aaliyah (my babe) in the upcoming Biopic about her life. Alot of you don't know who she is so I will tell you what I know. I remember her having one song called "Bad Boy" back in 2004. Plus a video, and that's it! I used to jam to this track. I kept hearing about this girl playing Aaliyah for a while now, and was thinking to myself, "Is that the Girl that sings Bad Boy????" So today I did my research, and sure enough it was. Of course I learned she had more than one song out, and that she's from & really popular in Canada. I know Meagan Good said in a old interview sometime back that she would love to play this part. But from the looks of it Keshia Chante` will be the one that will have us all reminiscing our girl Aaliyah. Can't wait for the movie to come out!

Check out Keshia's Video "Bad Boy":

Keshia Chante`- Bad Boy (Download Link)


(Keshia Chante`) for more info on Keshia Chante` click here. Check out her Myspace Page as well @ www.myspace.com/keshiachante.

She even looks like Aaliyah a bit too!!!! What do you guys think?

Today Would Have been..........

............. Aaliyah's 30th bday!!!!!!!!!!!!

My babe looks good in this photo!!!! ;)

Who's coming to my area for the Inauguration this weekend?

Have a great/safe weekend.

Remembering Aaliyah

On this date 7 years ago the music industry & world lost a great entertainer. Aaliyah Dana Haughton is stilled mourned by the industry, and her fans such as myself. She was a great artist headed for a wonderful Cross-Genre career as and actress. But her life was tragically ended in a plane crash in the Bahamas. So as fans will never know what this beautiful woman would have become over the pass few years, but we still have great material she left behind for us to enjoy. So today I wanna say Aaliyah we miss you, and still love you. May you continue to rest in peace babe girl, and know that your true fans still carry on your memory.

Here are a few of her great videos:


Are you that somebody (still my favorite Aaliyah Video & song to date)

Try again




Rock The Boat

The One I Gave My Heart To

We Need A Resolution


More Than A Woman


4 Page Letter

The new Detroit School of the Arts.....

............has renamed the Recital Hall after the late R&B singer Aaliyah in honour of her memory.

Aaliyah also graduated from the school when she was just 18.

Fader Honors The Legacy Of the Late Aaliyah

I'm glad my girl is still being remembered after all these years.



Info from http://www.thefader.com/:

Does everybody have an Aaliyah T-shirt? Gang Gang Dancer Lizzi Bougatsos has one. Chromeo dude Dave 1 has one. I have one too—it’s black, cotton, incredibly comfortable and emblazoned with a grainy photo from the Aaliyah album cover. I was wearing it last summer when a little girl stopped me on the street. “You know about Aaliyah?” She couldn’t have been older than seven—putting her birth around the time of Aaliyah’s death—but she was obviously a fan. I could only return the question: “You know about Aaliyah?” She rolled her eyes at me and smirked. “Everybody knows about Aaliyah,” she said. Then she flashed another look, realizing that she and I were both a part of “everybody.” Then she ran off to catch up with her friends.

It’s easy to gush about the universal appeal of Aaliyah, considering she revolutionized the popscape so quickly, so effortlessly. And while we’d be happy to wax on about making out to “One in a Million” after junior prom, we chose Aaliyah to grace The FADER’s annual icon issue not out of nostalgia, but because she embodies so much of what we love about music RIGHT NOW. Her influence in 2008 is omnipresent, from the futuristic megahits dominating airwaves to the demure pop sensibilities fluttering throughout the underground. She made chart-topping R&B that still feels avant garde, with a voice that could either freeze time or stretch it into blissful, Möbius strip choruses that float on and on and on…

Where did she come from? The future? Heaven? Deep space? Detroit? We spoke with her friends, family and collaborators to find out more about the girl behind the sunglasses. We also hooked up with artists from the FADER generation, with testimonies from Dri, Vampire Weekend, Ciara, Kid Sister and others to illustrate how Aaliyah dared pop music to get weird and inspired the fringe to get weirder. Squint your ears and you’ll hear Aaliyah in this issue’s other features: the daring pop of Sweden’s Lykke Li, the woozy whoomp of England’s emerging bassline scene and the gleeful buoyancy of El Guincho. Their music, like Aaliyah’s, invites us to the same terrain we try to explore with every issue of The FADER—a place where the beats jam hard and the possibilities feel endless.

CHRIS RICHARDS


What some had to say about her:

Missy Elliott“We was gonna save the world. We was gonna change music every chance we got. We was gonna always be family. Forever.”

Mark Ronson“If it wasn’t for Aaliyah being the face and voice of [Missy Elliott and Timbaland’s] sound they might have never got to where they did. They were presenting their sort of brilliant but challenging breakthrough music through this beautiful young girl who could sing it perfectly.”

Kidada Jones“I think about her all the time…Anytime she’s brought up or her music comes on the radio, it’s sweet, but it definitely sounds like she found a niche before it was here. If you listen to her music it’s so relevant today, but we had it so long ago.”

Damon Dash“She was already a fashion icon, she was getting into movies, she had already planted that seed. If she was alive today she would be so relevant. I see little bits of her everywhere I look, in a lot of artists