Aaliyah, who died 20 years ago today, remade the steamy slow jam as a place for technical innovation with understated vocals that felt radically intimate.
Jimmy Jam identifies an “emotional honesty” in Aaliyah’s music that he says made her “relatable” to her audience. “There are certain people that you listen to them when they sing, and then there are certain people you sing along. Aaliyah had the voice that you sang along with. It never felt like a performance — ‘I’m gonna knock this out the park.’ She was just speaking to you.”
That relatability — further cultivated, Spotify’s Pickett says, by a “tomboy” image eventually emulated by Alicia Keys — papered over some of the more troubling aspects of Aaliyah’s story. Introduced to show business by her uncle Barry Hankerson , Aaliyah infamously ended up in a short-lived marriage with Hankerson’s client R.
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