Christina Aguilera, Bad Bunny and Jeremy Pope will receive honors at the 34th annual GLAAD Media Awards, which serves to recognize performers, filmmakers and projects that have proven monumental to the LGBTQ community.
Aguilera, renowned Latin pop singer and five-time Grammy winner, will accept GLAAD’s Advocate for Change award in tribute of her activism surrounding HIV and LGBTQ issues. “Beautiful,” one of the songwriter’s most notable tracks, earned Aguilera prior recognition at the 2003 GLAAD Media Awards following her dedication of the song to the queer community. Aguilera has helped raise over $500 million toward HIV research with MAC cosmetics. More recently, she launched her own Pride collection in 2021.
Bad Bunny is set to receive GLAAD’s Vanguard award, placing the reggaetón star among an elite group of previous honorees such as Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears, Cher and Janet Jackson. The award recognizes Bad Bunny for his allyship to the LGBTQ community, given the artist’s track record of using his large-scale platform to uplift traditionally underexposed voices.
“Bad Bunny uses his role as one of the world’s most popular music artists to boldly shine a light on LGBTQ people and issues, including transgender equality and ending violence against trans women of color,” GLAAD president and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis said in a statement Wednesday. “By consistently advocating for our community, elevating our stories and demanding action from anti-LGBTQ leaders, Bad Bunny redefines the positive influence Latin music artists can have within the LGBTQ community, and has set an example for all artists.”
Pope is due to take home the Stephen F. Kolzak award, which is presented to an LGBTQ media professional who has increased queer visibility and acceptance through their work. Just an Oscar away from being an EGOT winner, Pope’s extensive filmography features groundbreaking queer performances in 2022’s “The Inspection” and the FX series “Pose.”
This year’s award show features 295 nominees across 33 categories, including the addition of the outstanding podcast and outstanding live TV journalism – segment or special categories. Also new to the ceremony is the division of the outstanding reality program category into independent reality competition and non-competition subsections. A similar move was made to the outstanding kids & family programming category, which now differentiates between animated and live action programs.
Presented by Gilead Sciences, Inc. and Ketel One Family Made Vodka, the event will be held March 30 at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles.
After her show at the Viña del Mar Festival, Christina will perform at the Movistar Arena where, in addition to performing songs from her new album, she will review the hits that have established her on stages around the world in recent 30 years.
Christina Aguilera reveals a special birthday in Vietnam | National Assembly Television As one of seven essential national channels, Vietnam National Assembly Television aims to be the leading political news channel in Vietnam. Pursuing the philosophy of “Constructive journalism”, Vietnam National Assembly Television is carrying out a mission to serve the National Assembly and voters nationwide. Besides, popularizing and encouraging the development of cultural values is an important priority of Vietnam National Assembly Television. National Assembly Television of Vietnam is managed by the Office of the National Assembly of Vietnam.
American singer and Grammy Award winner Christina Aguilera will appear at the much-awaited VinFuture Prize ceremony on December 20 at the Hanoi Opera House to honor innovations for global revival and sustainable development, according to the Organizing Committee.
The pop icon will be performing along side conductor Honna Tetsuji, violinist Bui Cong Duy, artist Dong Quang Vinh and Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra, in a top-notch concert designed specifically for the award ceremony.
This year’s VinFuture Prize will honor four groundbreaking scientific innovations that help revive and rebuild the lives of millions during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tickets are on sale now for the Chilean event, which is scheduled for Feb. 19-24.
Tickets for the 62nd edition of the Viña del Mar International Song Festival are on sale. The Chilean event’s organizing committee announced that tickets for the general public can be purchased starting Wednesday (Nov. 30) on the PuntoTicket website.
The Festival de Viña 2023 is scheduled from Feb. 19 to 24 and will feature big Latin stars, including Karol G, Maná, Alejandro Fernández, Christina Aguilera and Camilo, all of whom are confirmed to perform. Additional artists will be announced soon.
“The tickets will be nominative. This means that each ticket will be assigned a name and rut from February 10, 2023 and until 11:00 am on each day of the festival, and not at the time of purchase,” the festival said in a statement. Prices start at 34,500 Chilean pesos (about $38), plus service fee.
Launched in 1960, the Viña del Mar International Song Festival is held annually at Quinta Vergara, a 15,000-capacity amphitheater located in the Chilean city of Viña del Mar, in the central coast region of Valparaíso.
Over the course of five days, the event features a mix of superstars, emerging singers and local artists competing for the Silver, Gold and Platinum “Gaviotas,” the name of its awards. These awards are decided by a jury with the help of viewers from their homes, although the so-called “monster” — the audience present at Quinta Vergara — undoubtedly has a great power of influence with its ovations and occasional boos.
The Viña del Mar Festival reaches millions of viewers around the world. Next year, it will be broadcast in Chile on TVN and Channel 13 and will be available throughout Latin America on STAR Channel and its streaming platform, Star+.
Pop star Christina Aguilera revisits her best—and boldest—outfits over her career. Spanning from her debut record to the VMAs, Dirrty, and Moulin Rouge, watch as Christina reminisces about iconic look after iconic look.
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of Stripped, check out Christina Aguilera’s new version of Beautiful
Christina’s EP, LA LUZ, is now streaming, and full length album, AGUILERA, is now available.
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and a Teen Crush on Dave Navarro Shaped Her Most Daring Album
To celebrate the LP’s anniversary, the artist dove into the stories behind key tracks such as “Dirrty,” “Beautiful,” “Can’t Hold Us Down,” and more.
In 2002, Christina Aguilera shed her teen pop princess image to reveal something dirtier, rougher, rawer and realer through Stripped, her fourth studio album known for singles like “Dirrty” and “Fighter.” The LP, which celebrates its 20th anniversary today, saw the then-21-year-old maturing her sound and public image fast, darkening her previously platinum blonde hair, and taking control of her sexuality.
“The music I was making on my first album, I was still very much under the thumb of a lot of older men and women,” Aguilera says of her early carer experience. After getting her break on the Mickey Mouse Club alongside Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, and more young stars, she was thrown into the pop machine to create coy bubblegum in the late Nineties. Both behind the scenes and in the public eye, however, Aguilera dealt with a few formative, disheartening experiences, including heartbreak, media scrutiny, and real and imagined feuds with her musical peers.
“I started writing scattered lyrics after the whirlwind of the first record and having a lot of males say opinions about me and rumors all that,” she recalls. She famously dealt with comments from the likes of Fred Durst and Eminem around this time. “It was a lot to experience young and I wanted to put all that to paper and make a solid, heartfelt album.”
To make it, Aguilera found challenging, welcoming creative partnership in the likes of Linda Perry, Scott Storch, Glen Ballard, Alicia Keys, Redman, Lil’ Kim and more. The album is soulful mix of hip-hop, hard rock, neo-soul, and, of course, pure pop. The lyrics focus on personal empowerment and knowing your worth, concepts a young Aguilera was beginning to really grasp for the first time in her life.
“Once it was released to the public, I started understanding ‘Oh wow, people have real issues with this,” she recalls of early reaction to her new, provocative image for the song “Dirrty.”
“It made me sad how conservative and judgmental a lot of people were, and I was never coming on the scene to impose anything upon anyone. I just wanted to live my life and not conform.”
Even so, Aguilera appreciates what Stripped means to her fans and her career path now more than ever. The album’s incredible success and huge risk paid off: It remains one of her highest charting albums and made her one of the best-selling artists of all time. The project’s coming-of-age bent had a huge influence and impact on numerous younger artists, like Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, Miley Cyrus and more. Aguilera continued to take huge sonic and image risks in the wake of Stripped.
To celebrate the album’s anniversary, Aguilera spoke to Rolling Stone and discussed key tracks from the LP, detailing how they came to life and all the moments that inspired them.
“Stripped Intro”/“Can’t Hold Us Down” (featuring Lil’ Kim)
This was definitely a song I wrote while everything exploded. You can hear some of those sound bites that were used in “Stripped Intro.” Scott Storch created that intro and I wanted to feel dramatic and expressive of all the chaos and noise that was happening with all the stupid tabloids and other artists trying to talk rumors and shit. It was just it was a lot. It was a lot to take on that young, but I’m so happy I took the approach of, “Now we’re going to take it to the women’s court and I’m not going to back down and not speak my truth about certain issues that I believe in. I’m not going to back down and cower and shut up just because you want me to or you think women should be put in their place.”
[For the video] I remember there was such an issue with me putting a hose between my legs because it was going to be too graphic to air. So they had to literally pixelate it to make sure it was blurred out which now it’s like, so dumb when you look back and see what was censored because it’s so not even a thing anymore.
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