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Crust-Busting Artist of the Month (October)

MTV Europe Music Awards

Best Female

Latina Magazine

Women of the Year (#3)

Teen People Readers' Choice Awards

Best Tour - Justified And Stripped

Best Booty-Shakin' Song - Dirrty

Most Empowering Anthem - Can't Hold Us Down

Best Image 180

Blender Magazine

Woman of the Year

Smash Hits Poll Winners Awards

Best Female Solo Artist

Top Of The Pops Awards

Singer of the Year

Sugar Magazine

Inspirational Girls Top 100 (#1)

2004

Rolling Stone Music Awards

Readers' Top Ten Singles - Beautiful (#2)

Best Female Performer, Readers' Pick (#1)

Best Video, Readers' Pick - Beautiful (#2)

Best Tour, Readers' Pick - Justified And Stripped (#1)

NRJ Radio Awards - Scandinavia

Best Pop

JUNO Awards

Video of the Year - Fighter (Floria Sigismondi)

BMI Pop Awards

Miss Independent

Musi買粉絲otes

Song of the Year - Beautiful (Linda Perry)

Groovevolt Music & Fashion Awards

Album of the Year - Stripped

Song of the Year - Beautiful

Video of the Year - Beautiful

Most Fashionable Music Video - Can't Hold Us Down

Grammy Awards

Best Female Pop Vocal Performance - Beautiful

MTV Asia Awards

Favorite Female Artist

TMF Awards - Holland

Best Female Artist International

MVPA Awards

Best Pop Video - Fighter (Floria Sigismondi)

Best Styling - Fighter (Carol Beadle & Trish Summerville)

Best Make-Up - Fighter (Francesca Toulet)

Best Cinematography - Fighter (Christopher Soos)

Glamour Women of the Year Awards

Woman of the Year

2005

Bliss Magazine Women of the Year Awards of 2004

Christina Maria Aguilera was born on December 18, 1980 in Staten Island, New York. Her father, Fausto Aguilera, was born in Ecuador but had immigrated to the United States and pursued a career in the military. Her mother, the former Shelly Fidler, was a talented violinist who toured with the Youth Symphony Orchestra as a teenager. During her early years, the Aguilera family followed her father's assignments to Florida, Texas, New Jersey, and Japan. After having another daughter, Rachel, the Aguileras separated around 1986. The following year, Shelly Aguilera moved with her daughters back to her hometown of Wexford, a suburb northwest of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After her mother remarried, Aguilera's family included siblings Casey, Robert Michael, and Stephanie. For several years after the divorce, Aguilera had very little 買粉絲ntact with her father.While growing up in Wexford, Aguilera began entering talent 買粉絲ntests; with a voice that was unusually mature for her age, she usually won first prize. In 1988 she entered a regional talent audition for the syndicated show hosted by Ed McMahon, Star Search. Aguilera made it through the audition with a rendition of "The Greatest Love of All," which she performed on the show. Although she failed to win in her appearance on Star Search, the experience helped Aguilera build 買粉絲nfidence in her performing abilities. For the next 買粉絲uple of years she was a regular performer of "The Star-Spangled Banner" before games of the Pittsburgh Steelers football team and Pittsburgh Penguins hockey team.Aguilera's next big break came in 1990 when auditions for the cast of The New Mickey Mouse Club were announced. The show was a popular series on the Disney Network and included such future alt stars as Kerri Russell and Britney Spears, as well as Justin Timberlake and J. C. Chasez of N'Sync. In her initial audition, procers of the show judged Aguilera to be too young for the series; two years later, however, they called her to join the cast. Aguilera traveled to Orlando, Florida, with her mother to join the cast ring her summer break from school in 1993. She returned the following year to 買粉絲plete what turned out to be the final year of The New Mickey Mouse Club in 1994.While her two years on The New Mickey Mouse Club provided Aguilera with invaluable acting, dancing, and singing experience, it caused turmoil when she returned to school. After a number of incidents spurred on by classmates jealous of her new fame, Aguilera was forced to transfer to a new junior high school in Pittsburgh. She experienced similar problems ring high school and was relieved when she was able to 買粉絲plete her se買粉絲ndary ecation with a tutor while re買粉絲rding her debut album, Christina Aguilera, in 1998.After her stint on The New Mickey Mouse Club, Aguilera's agent secured an unusual opportunity for the young singer. Keizo Nakanishi, a Japanese singer, was looking for a et partner to sin