Christina Aguilera: A Star Is Made: The Unauthorized Biography
CHRISTINA AGUILERA: NATIONAL BESTSELLER - It is the first and the best analytical, serious and uncensored look at Christina's life and her rise to the pinnacle of the pop world. A controversial and elusive figure, Christina Aguilera has polarized and mesmerized audiences since the beginning. While fans praise her sultry, soulful voice, other artists, including Eminem have openly proclaimed their dislike of her; and her idol, Mariah Carey, refused to talk to her. Love her or hate her, Christina's success is without precedent. Millions and millions of her albums sold worldwide. It seems that everything she touches turns platinum. In Christina Aguilera: A Star is Made, author Pier Dominguez traces the construction of a 21st century star and provides a shrewd, psychological portrait - the first analytical look at her life and rise to the pinnacle of the pop world. This biography reveals Christina Aguilera in a most intimate light, chronicling her early years, exploring her motivations and tracing the development of her career. It strips away the media hoopla and exposes the Real Christina. Christina Aguilera: A Star is Made gives you all the details about how Christina fled her abusive father at age 5; cut out her first manager and later refused to give her credit; dropped her first boyfriend as her fame was reaching its most glorious crescendo; became the puppet of her record label, which attempted to downplay her ethnicity and helped her keep her romantic life secret and fired the manager who took her to the top of the charts. After an almost two-year hiatus, and after having her stardom carefully constructed by the RCA label, Christina has come back with an album; that is almost entirely her own creation. PHOTOS
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Christina Aguilera: A Star Is Made: The Unauthorized Biography
CHRISTINA AGUILERA: NATIONAL BESTSELLER - It is the first and the best analytical, serious and uncensored look at Christina's life and her rise to the pinnacle of the pop world. A controversial and elusive figure, Christina Aguilera has polarized and mesmerized audiences since the beginning. While fans praise her sultry, soulful voice, other artists, including Eminem have openly proclaimed their dislike of her; and her idol, Mariah Carey, refused to talk to her. Love her or hate her, Christina's success is without precedent. Millions and millions of her albums sold worldwide. It seems that everything she touches turns platinum. In Christina Aguilera: A Star is Made, author Pier Dominguez traces the construction of a 21st century star and provides a shrewd, psychological portrait - the first analytical look at her life and rise to the pinnacle of the pop world. This biography reveals Christina Aguilera in a most intimate light, chronicling her early years, exploring her motivations and tracing the development of her career. It strips away the media hoopla and exposes the Real Christina. Christina Aguilera: A Star is Made gives you all the details about how Christina fled her abusive father at age 5; cut out her first manager and later refused to give her credit; dropped her first boyfriend as her fame was reaching its most glorious crescendo; became the puppet of her record label, which attempted to downplay her ethnicity and helped her keep her romantic life secret and fired the manager who took her to the top of the charts. After an almost two-year hiatus, and after having her stardom carefully constructed by the RCA label, Christina has come back with an album; that is almost entirely her own creation. PHOTOS
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Christina Aguilera: A Star Is Made: The Unauthorized Biography

Christina Aguilera: A Star Is Made: The Unauthorized Biography

by Pier Dominguez
Christina Aguilera: A Star Is Made: The Unauthorized Biography

Christina Aguilera: A Star Is Made: The Unauthorized Biography

by Pier Dominguez

Paperback(1994 ed.)

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CHRISTINA AGUILERA: NATIONAL BESTSELLER - It is the first and the best analytical, serious and uncensored look at Christina's life and her rise to the pinnacle of the pop world. A controversial and elusive figure, Christina Aguilera has polarized and mesmerized audiences since the beginning. While fans praise her sultry, soulful voice, other artists, including Eminem have openly proclaimed their dislike of her; and her idol, Mariah Carey, refused to talk to her. Love her or hate her, Christina's success is without precedent. Millions and millions of her albums sold worldwide. It seems that everything she touches turns platinum. In Christina Aguilera: A Star is Made, author Pier Dominguez traces the construction of a 21st century star and provides a shrewd, psychological portrait - the first analytical look at her life and rise to the pinnacle of the pop world. This biography reveals Christina Aguilera in a most intimate light, chronicling her early years, exploring her motivations and tracing the development of her career. It strips away the media hoopla and exposes the Real Christina. Christina Aguilera: A Star is Made gives you all the details about how Christina fled her abusive father at age 5; cut out her first manager and later refused to give her credit; dropped her first boyfriend as her fame was reaching its most glorious crescendo; became the puppet of her record label, which attempted to downplay her ethnicity and helped her keep her romantic life secret and fired the manager who took her to the top of the charts. After an almost two-year hiatus, and after having her stardom carefully constructed by the RCA label, Christina has come back with an album; that is almost entirely her own creation. PHOTOS

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780970222459
Publisher: Amber Communications Group, Inc.
Publication date: 06/01/2003
Edition description: 1994 ed.
Pages: 258
Product dimensions: 5.53(w) x 8.47(h) x 0.58(d)

About the Author

Nineteen year old Pier Dominguez has written for New York Newsday and is the author of Amy Fisher: Anatomy of a Scandal.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1.A Star is Born1
Chapter 2.The Little Girl with The Big Voice13
Chapter 3.A Beaver County Mouseketeer23
Chapter 4.The Demo Tape33
Chapter 5.The Mysterious Management Deal37
Chapter 6.The Teen Pop Machine45
Chapter 7.The Selling of Christina57
Chapter 8.Pop! Goes the Genie69
Chapter 9.The Seduction of Fame79
Chapter 10.Rumors, Romance & Controversy93
Photo Gallery117
Chapter 11.On Tour & In Love137
Chapter 12.Exit Steven Kurtz157
Chapter 13.Her Kind of Christmas179
Chapter 14.Seizing Control191
Chapter 15.Not Your Pop Tart197
Chapter 16.A New Beginning215
Discography223
End Notes229

What People are Saying About This

Kitty Kelley

Christina Aguilera is lucky to have such a phenomenal biographer in Pier Dominguez. One day he will be as big a star as his subjects. He brings extraordinary gifts to his work--immense curiosity, fine writing skills, intrepid reporting, thorough research, and indefatigueable energy.
— #1 New York Times best-selling biographer of His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography and The Royals

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