“What I miss most? Positively her laughter, how humorous and foolish she was,” Aaliyah’s brother Rashad Haughton informed Vainness Honest days earlier than what would have been the late singer’s forty sixth birthday.
Aaliyah’s life was tragically lower brief when she was killed in a airplane crash in 2001 at age 22. To commemorate her lasting affect, Haughton, who partially manages the R&B sensation’s property, has teamed up with Mattel to launch a Barbie Music Sequence collector doll in her likeness, obtainable on Thursday, January 16. “All through the two-plus a long time that I’ve been preserving my sister’s legacy and doing collaborations, this was one thing that was at all times on our radar,” Haughton stated. So when the crew at Mattel reached out, “the timing was excellent.”
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The gathering has celebrated musical icons together with Gloria Estefan, Stevie Nicks, Barbara Streisand and Tina Turner.
Rising up, Haughton remembers his youthful sister enjoying with Barbie dolls in her bed room. “To listen to her in there and form of imagineering her life after which not too lengthy after that, you realize, my sister’s profession began at such a younger age. She nonetheless had Barbies when she was knowledgeable. In order that magic and that energy is what’s actually going to come back by means of to little ladies,” he stated.
All through Aaliyah’s profession, she wore a lot of memorable appears which have continued to encourage tastemakers, designers, and everybody in between. So to find out what her doll would put on, Haughton consulted Aaliyah’s longtime stylist, Derek Lee, and selected to recreate the opening ensemble from the music video for “One in a Million,” Aaliyah’s 1996 hit tune. At a time when stylists weren’t in a position to work instantly with style homes, it was Lee’s genius that created the take a look at a second’s discover, sourcing items from intercourse retailers in New York Metropolis.
“We selected that look as a result of it checked all of these containers that we needed to characterize…. She was going by means of this degree of maturity,” Haughton shared. Because the title monitor from Aaliyah’s multiplatinum sophomore album, Haughton remembers that album, and particularly that tune, representing a turning level in his sister’s profession. Aaliyah had shifted route to work with a then little-known writing and producing crew: Timbaland and Missy Elliott. “I keep in mind getting the demo for that, and this was earlier than we had even determined that we have been going to work with Tim and Missy…and once we heard the tune, we have been like, Wow, it’s carried out, we’re going to work with them,” Haughton mirrored.
