Aaliyah is an R&B seductress of the highest order, the undisputed queen of the midtempo come-on. She works her voodoo on a bed of diamond-precision beats and densely sculptured grooves: Starting with her R. Kelly-produced debut album, 1994's Age Ain't Nothing but a Number, and continuing through 1996's One in a Million, which began her fruitful association with Timbaland and Missy Elliott, her impact on contemporary R&B - and therefore pop - has been enormous. Long before Britney scandalized a nation by winking at dirty old men everywhere, the teenage Aaliyah was romantically linked with the much older R. Kelly and singing the erotic, precocious lyrics he'd written for her. One in a Million proved she wasn't a fluke by heightening the contr
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