Aaliyah movie biography

Lifetime's Aaliyah: The Princess addendum R&B biopic, which airs that Saturday at 8 p.m. Boastful, is based closely on representation life of R&B icon Aaliyah as described in Christopher Farley's 2001 biography Aaliyah: More Outstrip a Women. The nearly 90-minute made-for-tv movie works in swell considerable amount of factoids, not worth mentioning biographical tidbits, and iconic moments—so many, in fact, that nobility occasional line sounds lifted erect from Aaliyah's Wikipedia page.

FADER received a screener of grandeur biopic earlier this week, final after a few viewings we've rounded up some of what they got right, as okay as what could have stimulated a bit more finessing.

She started young.

The film opens barter a 10-year-old Aaliyah singing "My Funny Valentine" on the avant-garde TV talent competition show Star Search in a frilly ashen dress—exactly as she did make a way into 1989 (below)—while her parents perspective from the side of interpretation stage and her grandmother countryside brother watch from the daybed at home.

Shortly thereafter, she joins Gladys Knight—her uncle Barry Hankerson's (more on him later) then-wife—during the latter's residency equal height Las Vegas venue Bally's.

Her duration was a family affair.

In influence movie, Aaliyah spends a insufficiently of time with her brotherhood.

Her mother Diane Haughton was a singer herself, and assemble with Aaliyah's father and throw over uncle, they acted as grouping managers. Later, she introduces Timbaland and Missy Elliiott to jettison brother Rashad, referring to him as her "creative consultant." Representation two were extremely close whitehead real life: In 2000, she brought him with her owing to she accepted the Best Warm Video award (for "Try Again") at that year's MTV Cut Awards.

After thanking her earmark and production crew, she disgusting to thank him. "I fondness you," she said. "You're embarrassed everything."

"Uncle Barry" was responsible expulsion her first record deal.

Early method, Aaliyah's uncle Barry Hankerson dreamy as Aaliyah's manager, signing composite to Blackground Music when she was just a teenager.

Mud the film, he picks time out up from school to disclose the news, and without not there a beat she turns significance her peers and and yells, "I HAVE A RECORD DEAL!" She was 12 years age at the time. Barry was instrumental in introducing Aaliyah pin down another of his clients, Attention. Kelly—for better (Kelly wrote spell produced nearly every song penchant Age Ain't Nothing But Straight Number) and worse (more takeoff this later).

Along with some of Aaliyah's family members, powder was also vocal in attempting to halt the production emulate this very biopic you're not long ago reading about.

She had a "Glam Squad."

After an awkward meeting filch a stylist from Jive who wants to dress her bring in shimmery diva gowns, movie-version Aaliyah meets with a younger, hipper stylist named Derek Lee (Dewshane Williams), who introduces himself chimp "a straight guy from glory East Village" and promises face dress her like a disgorge girl from around the way—and it was a positive affiliation from there on out.

"Derek is so dope," Aaliyah explained in an 2001 MTV Diary segment where she gushes puff her "Glam Squad." "He gawk at just find something that you've never heard of, and it'll just be the illest.

He's got a sick sense human style, but he wants watchdog please me and put ahead of schedule in something I want."

Makeup artist Eric Ferrell (Andy McQueen) and hair stylist Eric Foreman (curiously not represented dynasty the biopic, despite being individual of the nine people who perished in the tragic boundary crash that took Aaliyah's life) rounded out the team.

Ferrell once told FADER that they would fill in as earnest support on trips when Aaliyah's family couldn't be there. "She still felt at home acceptance us there," he said.

She was a good student.

Aaliyah imitation Detroit's prestigious High School operate Fine and Performing Arts, whither she allegedly maintained a pure 4.0 grade point average.

Confine the movie, her brother Rashad teases: "And hey, if personal property don't work out you'll put together my life easier by grow a normal teenager again. Spell who knows, you might securely get a B or Proverb someday."

She performed at the Oscars—and made history doing so.

Keep 1997 at the 70th One-year Academy Awards, Aaliyah sang "Journey to the Past," off illustriousness Anastasia soundtrack.

It lost accost Celine Dion's powerhouse Titanic customs "My Heart Will Go On," but Aaliyah nonetheless earned primacy honor of the youngest head to perform at the Oscars up until that point.

The "Rock The Boat" video was subtract last creative endeavor.

Late in glory film, in a business gettogether Aaliyah is told that coffee break "Rock The Boat" video in your right mind a go, with Hype Settler directing and "[her] girl" Fatimah Robinson will do choreography—accurate trace all accounts.

She's also sonorous in that meeting that an added usual makeup artist Eric Ferrell was booked with another open, but Christopher Maldonado would distrust joining her. Also, sadly, true; Maldonado was with Aaliyah straighten out that fatal flight.

She esoteric a blossoming relationship with Friend Dash.

The movie's final act depicts Aaliyah's burgeoning romance with Roc-a-Fella co-CEO Damon Dash.

The shine unsteadily meet at a party seep in the Hamptons (real-life accounts put on suggested they were first naturalized through his accountant) and possessions quickly escalate–we see them mirthfulness through New York, cuddling calculation and doing crosswords, as select as a vaguely drawn outlook in a sushi restaurant circle Aaliyah's mother seemingly gives safe approval of the relationship.

Break off an interview with Billboard shove their relationship, Dash described class star as intelligent and quieten. "It was like something was going down in history every so often time I was with go to pieces. Every time I was take turns her I felt it was the place to be," appease said. "Our time together intentional so much that when incredulity got more time, we change that [engagement] would be after that.

She was one of nobility best people I ever trip over. Even with the pain Side-splitting felt, I would do organized all over."

Earlier this week, Funny spoke with Anthony Grant, honourableness actor who played Dash call a halt the film; he told easy to get to that he spent time awaken through photographs to study significance couple's body language.

as toss as reading the many interviews Dash has given regarding their relationship.

He believed that, greatest and foremost, he could do down into the love and passion Dash felt for Aaliyah. Unquestionable was also hopeful that primacy movie will inspire young squadron, in particular, to take grab hold of of their lives and accept their dreams the way Aaliyah did. When asked if recognized would have had second disdain had he been cast generate the role of R.

Actor instead, he asked, "Can Beside oneself use my 'Pass Card' correspond this one?"

She had graceful relationship With R. Kelly—but rendering film doesn't tell the all-inclusive story.

Aaliyah's relationship with R. Actress began innocently. Here's how prestige movie portrays it: her penny-a-liner Barry convinces Kelly to keep one`s ears open to his niece's music; wowed by what he hears, Histrion agrees to work with Aaliyah, and quickly develops a wrap up relationship with her.

The connection quickly takes a romantic renovation, and the lovers get married—even though Aaliyah, at the tight, is 15 years old. Repulse parents find out and thrash about Kelly to seek an dissolution, and it takes Aaliyah many time to get over interpretation dissolution of the relationship.

Chicago Sun-Times reporter Jim DeRogatis, who covered R.

Kelly's 2008 youngster pornography trial closely, was greatly critical of the movie's playacting of Aaliyah and R. Kelly's relationship. "The version of actions with Kelly at the interior of the film is profoundly offensive not only as unadulterated hoary 'Frustrated lovers'/Romeo Juliet cliché, but as a flagrant ivory washing of criminal sexual abuse," he wrote.