Christina Aguilera by an entirely different name — but she luckily fought against it.“I remember when I was first coming up, there was a big debate around me on changing my last name because all the businessmen around me thought it was too long, too complicated, and too ethnic,” the Grammy winner, 39, told Billboard in an interview published on Friday, June 26. “‘Christina Agee’ was an option, but that clearly wasn’t going to fly.”Aguilera added, “I was dead set against the idea and I wanted to represent who I really was.
Being Latina, it is a part of my heritage and who I am. I’ve been fighting for my last name my whole life.”In her decades-long career, Aguilera recorded one Spanish album, Mi Reflejo, in 2000.
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