Christina Aguilera Says She Fought To Keep Her Last Name For Her Music Career
justjared.comChristina Aguilera is opening up about how she was almost known by another name in her music career. According to the 41-year-old singer, she revealed that there was pressure to change her Latin last name into something more English sounding by people in the industry.
However, Christina pushed back and kept Aguilera. Click inside to read more… During a recent interview at Billboard Latin Music Week, Christina claimed she’s “proud” of her last name: “I’m proud to be an Aguilera.” “Something that I really embody and understand is that, you know, this is a name that has been tried to be taken away from me on numerous occasions coming up in this business,” she shared. “It’s not the easiest name for everyone to pronounce.
It’s been butchered a lot.” She didn’t reveal the names that she could’ve been, calling them the “bad names that I could have been.” “I was like no, I’m Aguilera, I’m proud of where I come from.
My father being from Ecuador,” Christina explained, before saying that there is a tribute on her Spanish version of her album. “[I wanted to] pay nod, and tribute to that,” describing it as “authenticity,” and sharing that it was very “important” to her: “Why not come full circle in all of the chapters and close it on a name, my name.” Just recently, Christina was part of more drama with Britney Spears.
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