It’s hard to believe that it’s been 17 years since the beloved singer, Aaliyah, and some of her team members tragically died in a plane crash. The year was 2001 and at 22 years old, Aaliyah was at the height of her career.
Today, January 16, 2018, marks what would have been Aaliyah’s 39th birthday and her dear friends- singer, Missy Elliot, and producer, Timbaland- are keeping her legacy alive. As they celebrated her memory on her b-day, they took to social media to pay touching tributes to the late “One In A Million” singer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7aBTqnnx74
Timbaland’s Tribute To The Love Of His Life
Timbaland’s birthday shout out was short and sweet, but potent:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BeA1NJKnm7d/
Although his Aaliyah b-day tribute was short, it was filled with much emotion- emotion that Timbaland boldly revealed to the world years after her passing. Many of y’all may recall when we previously reported that Timbaland admitted he was madly in love with Aaliyah and fell into a severe depression after she’d passed away. In fact, he admitted in a recent interview, that his depression was so severe, that he has only recently began to truly emerge out of it. Here’s what he said in a prior interview:
“When I first met Aaliyah… I was in love with her. I said, ‘She (is) just a baby, I’m old’. I said to myself, ‘I’m just gonna be her brother’. Oh man, I was fightin,’ I was fightin’ a lot – a big war. But I loved Aaliyah.”
Then in a 2017 interview, Timbaland -who oftentimes refers to Aaliyah as “baby”- said that “when she passed, I passed”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKDa5ILVEDs
As we also previously reported, Timbaland publicly revealed that the reason he married his now soon-to-be-ex-wife, Monique Idlett, was because she looked a lot like Aaliyah.
Missy Elliot’s Tribute To Aaliyah
Missy paid homage to her close friend, Aaliyah, via Twitter, which this beautiful message:
Aaliyah so many people ❤️ your Style & Music! I wish they all got a chance to meet you to see how CARING you were to EVERYONE you met! I CAN STILL HEAR YOU LAUGH & me you @Timbaland joking😌we MISS YOU so much but I know you are surrounded by ANGELS 4 your BDAY😇🎂🍰 WE LOVE U pic.twitter.com/18SCsTF3Fz
— Missy Elliott (@MissyElliott) January 16, 2018
As we continue to uplift Aaliyah’s legacy and life, we will always remember the many memories she left her fans with through he music. Rest on Aaliyah Dana Haughton, as we reminisce over you with these classics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKbWF1jwMhE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5AAcgtMjUI
