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Christina Aguilera is back in what looks set to be the most sensational live tour of the year. The Grammy Award-winning songstress will tour the UK in November - her first UK dates for 3 years - after opening her eagerly awaited European tour in Sheffield Arena, November 17th. The tour follows the huge success of 'Aint No Other Man' and the LP 'Back To Basics', which reached Number 1 in the US and the UK, giving Christina her first ever UK Number 1 album.
One of the world's most successful female artists of all time, Christina wowed audiences at London's KOKO this summer for the launch of 'Back To Basics'. The 18-date tour includes two dates at London's Wembley Arena on November 29th and 30th.
Christina's last major UK tour was 2003's critically acclaimed 'Stripped', which consisted of three sell-out dates at Wembley Arena.
Containing two discs and the smash-hit single 'Ain't No Other Man', 'Back To Basics' sold 100,000 in the first week of its UK release, and was hailed by the Independent as "A pop diva masterclass". It has seen her reunite with former producer Linda Perry to create an irrepressible pop sound that is defiantly stylish, while several new collaborators such as DJ Premier also appear.
Following its August release, the album hit Number 1 in scores of countries including: Canada, Japan, Germany, Australia, Ireland, Switzerland, Austria, Holland, Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and Thailand. It also reached the Top 5 in Denmark, Italy, Norway and Mexico.
Equally, Christina is Number 1 in the digital world as well. 'Back To Basics' has hit Number 1 on iTunes in the U.K., France, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Netherlands, Sweden and Australia.
In America, the album also hit Number 1 on five Billboard charts with first-week sales of 345,518, marking her best Soundscan debut to date and the highest first-week sales of the year for a female solo artist. Similarly, 'Back To Basics' topped the Billboard 200, the R&B Overall Album Chart, the Digital Album Chart, Mass Merchant Chart and Internet Album Chart.
It is Christina's first Number 1 album since her 1999 self-titled debut.
One of the most accomplished performers of the last decade, Christina Aguilera has sold almost 30 million albums worldwide, scored four UK Number 1 singles, won three Grammy Awards plus a Latin Grammy Award, as well as three top five albums in the United States. In 2004 she was awarded the 'Best Pop Female Vocalist Performance' Grammy Award for 'Beautiful'. About Christina Aguilera
After Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera was the most popular female singer of the late-'90s teen pop revival. Unlike many of her contemporaries, Aguilera was a technically skilled singer with a genuinely powerful voice, belting out her uptempo dance numbers and ballads with a diva's panache. Born Christina Maria Aguilera on December 18, 1980, on Staten Island, her parents were of Irish and Ecuadorian stock and her father's military career meant the family moved quite a bit during her childhood. They eventually settled in Pittsburgh, PA, where Aguilera began performing in talent shows at age six, with considerable success. She appeared on Star Search in 1988 (though she didn't win) and in 1992 joined the cast of the Disney Channel's The New Mickey Mouse Club, which also included Spears, future *NSYNC members Justin Timberlake and JC Chasez, and Felicity star Keri Russell.
After two years, Aguilera moved to Japan, where she recorded the hit duet "All I Wanna Do" with pop star Keizo Nakanishi. Returning to the U.S. in 1998, Aguilera recorded the song "Reflection" for Disney's Mulan; her performance helped earn her a record deal with RCA. Her self-titled debut album was released in the summer of 1999, and with teen-oriented dance-pop all the rage, the lead single "Genie in a Bottle" shot to the top of the charts for five weeks; the album also hit number one on its way to sales of over eight million copies in the U.S. alone. The follow-up, "What a Girl Wants," was the first number one single of the year 2000 and Aguilera consolidated her near-instant stardom by performing at the White House Christmas gala and the Super Bowl halftime show, and winning a Grammy for Best New Artist. Further hits followed in "I Turn to You" and another number one, "Come on Over Baby (All I Want Is You)."
In September 2000, seeking a place in that year's Latin pop boom, the part-Ecuadorian Aguilera recorded a Spanish-language album called Mi Reflejo, learning the lyrics phonetically since she didn't speak Spanish. It was followed quickly by the holiday album My Kind of Christmas; both sold extremely well, a testament to Aguilera's popularity. In the spring of 2001, Aguilera was featured -- along with Pink, Mya, and Lil' Kim -- on the chart-topping blockbuster remake of Patti LaBelle's "Lady Marmalade" featured on the Moulin Rouge soundtrack. Aguilera was by now a fixture at music industry awards shows; as she enjoyed her celebrity, a collection of old demos -- recorded when she was 14 and 15 -- was released under the title Just Be Free, despite Aguilera's vehement objections.
Aguilera attempted to deter the mass media's expectations when she issued her second studio album in fall 2002. Stripped, which appeared in October on RCA, was quickly criticized for its adult yet confident approach. Aguilera's look had gone from glossy to gritty. She appeared topless on the cover of the album and went nude for a fall issue of Rolling Stone. Debut single "Dirrty" revealed her new sexual power and became a chart smash, while "Beautiful" showed her softer side. For her next record, however, Aguilera split from producer Scott Storch and went to work with DJ Premier and Linda Perry, among others, for the 2006 Back to Basics, which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. The album, a two-disc set that explored her influences, mainly '20s, '30s, and '40s jazz and blues in the style of Etta James or Billie Holiday, portrayed a more mature, yet at the same time provocative, singer.
