Christina Aguilera net worth
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What is Christina Aguilera’s net worth and salary?
Christina Aguilera (Christina Aguilera) is an American musician and entertainer with a net worth of US$160 million. As a five-time Grammy Award winner, she is known for her vocal power and provocative personal style. In addition to her popular music career, she has also ventured into the field of acting and television, most notably as a judge for the music competition show “The Voice”.
Early life and career start
Christina María Aguilera was born on December 18, 1980 in Staten Island, New York City. Her father is Ecuadorian, and her mother is of German, Irish, Welsh and Dutch descent. Because of her father’s job as a soldier in the US Army, Aguilera often moved in her early years. When her parents divorced when she was six years old, she settled in Rochester, a suburb of Pittsburgh.
In 1991, even though he did not meet the minimum age requirement, Aguilera participated in the audition for the “Mickey Mouse Club”. She joined the cast two years later, where she performed with other well-known actors including Justin Timberlake, Ryan Gosling and Britney Spears until the show was cancelled in 1994. Aguilera was selected by Disney to sing the animation theme song “Reflection” and the movie “Mulan” (1998) after sending her cover version of Whitney Houston’s “Running To You”. “Reflection” in the picture billboard The Adult Contemporary Ranking was ranked 15th when it was released in June 1998.
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Music career
With the success of “Reflection”, Aguilera signed with RCA Records. In order to keep up with the teenage pop trend led by pop star Britney Spears at the time, the label accelerated her album production.Aguilera’s single “Elf in a Bottle” was released in June 1999 and made her a star when it peaked in the United States billboard Hot 100. Her first album of the same name was released in August 1999, ranking first in the United States billboard 200. As of 2010, it has been certified as a platinum record by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) eight times and has sold 17 million copies worldwide.
At the 42nd Grammy Awards in February 2000, Aguilera won the Best Newcomer Award. Later, she released two studio albums in September and October 2000, Spanish “Mi Reflejo” and holiday album “My Kind of Christmas”. Her first concert tour “Christina Aguilera in Concert” lasted from mid-2000 to early 2001, including stops in North America, Europe, South America and Japan.
Dissatisfied with her lack of control over her image and music, Aguilera fired her agent Steve Kurtz and began working with Owen Azov. After gaining more artistic control over her career, her first project was “Lady Marmalade”, which was her collaboration with Pink, Mya and Lil Kim in 2001. It went on to win the best pop music collaboration award at the 44th Grammy Awards.
Aguilera was the executive producer and co-author of most of the songs on her fourth studio album “Stripped” (2002). It was during the “stripping” propaganda period that Aguilera adopted the other self of “Xtina”, showing for the first time the avant-garde look of dyed black hair, tattoos and several piercings. With her fifth studio album “Back to Basics” (2006), Aguilera returns to blonde hair, adopting a retro image inspired by classic Hollywood style icons such as Marilyn Monroe, and naming this new character As “Baby Jane”. From November 2006 to October 2008, her total income from her “return to basics” journey was US$48.1 million.
Her later albums “Bionic” (2010) and “Lotus” (2012) received mixed reviews, although her 2018 album “Liberation” received positive reviews and ranked sixth when it debuted in the United States billboard 200 charts. To promote “Liberation”, Aguilera conducted two tours: the Liberation Tour in the United States (September to November 2018) and the X Tour in Europe (July to December 2019). From May 2019 to March 2020, she also hosted the 25-day concert residency project The Xperience at the Zappos Theater in Las Vegas.
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Other pursuits
In addition to her music career, Aguilera has also achieved success as an actress. Together with Cher, she starred in the film “Burlesque”, which earned $90 million at the box office in 2010, and was nominated for best musical or comedy at the 68th Golden Globe Awards. She also did voice-over work for “Emoji Movie” (2017).
As one of the judges of the NBC music competition “The Voice”, Aguilera’s annual salary is 15 million U.S. dollars. She participated in the 1st to 3rd, 5th, 8th and 10th seasons of the show.
Aguilera also has a series of successful products and endorsements, and was named the number one celebrity brand in 2017. She released several successful perfumes, including Xpose (2004), Simply Christina (2007) and Inspire (2008). The brands she endorsed include Sears, Levi’s, Skechers, Versace, Oreo, Coca-Cola and Pepsi.She earned GBPThe cost of opening a summer promotion at Harrods, a London department store in 2004, was 200,000 (approximately US$300,000).In addition, Aguilera was reportedly paid 1.5 million US dollars people The magazine published photos of her son’s baby after he was born in 2008.
Personal life and philanthropy
Aguilera married marketing director Jordan Bratman on November 19, 2005 after dating in 2003. In January 2008, she gave birth to their son. The couple separated in September 2010 and completed their divorce on April 15, 2011. Soon after, she started dating Matthew Rutler. She met them on the set of the movie “Burlesque”, where Rutler worked as a production assistant. They got engaged in February 2014 and welcomed their daughter in August of the same year.
Aguilera has always been an active philanthropist and has supported many causes over the years. In 2003, she donated $200,000 to the Greater Pittsburgh Women’s Center and Shelter. She also raised more than US$148 million for the World Food Program(WFP), and was appointed as the spokesperson for World Hunger Relief in 2009 and as the ambassador of the United Nations Food Program in 2010.
