"She was a great dancer, she was a great singer and she had a great attitude and people liked working with her and people genuinely liked her."
Wilbekin said he watched her grow from a 15-year-old teen singer to a multi-platinum selling artist and actress.
"It's just been really amazing to watch her grow," he said. "Aaliyah really represented for young people someone who was very hard working, someone who was very driven, someone who had this dream being a great entertainer, a singer and an actress. And at the young age of 22, was actually achieving those dreams and was extremely successful."
In fact, before Brandy, Brittany, Christina et al there was this hugely talented, 15-year-old R&B chaunteuse from Detroit who mixed R&B and Hip Hop and caused quite a stir in the music world. On her latest records, her music was evolving from the punchy, pop-influenced Hip Hop and R&B to a more mature, introspective sound.
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Her debut album Age Ain't Nothing But a Number, released when she was only 15, went gold. It was produced by R&B crooner R. Kelly and featured Hip Hop elite Timbaland and Missy Elliott.
Her second album If Your Girl Only Knew went double platinum.
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