Fader Icon: Aaliyah
The Fader magazine will honor the legacy of Aaliyah in the latest installment of their Icon Series, which is available now. While Aaliyah’s life was cut short in 2001 when she was killed in a plane crash, her influence on pop music still carries on, and comes to the forefront in this issue of the Fader. The issue features artists such as Missy Elliot, Timbaland, Mark Ronson, Kid Sister, Method Man, and more celebrating the life and work of the songstress responsible for hits such as “Age Ain’t Nothin’ But A Number” and “One In A Million.”
Read on get a preview of what some of the artists had to say…
Missy Elliott
“We was gonna save the world. We was gonna change music every chance we got. We was gonna always be family. Forever.”
Mark Ronson
“If it wasn’t for Aaliyah being the face and voice of [Missy Elliott and Timbaland's] sound they might have never got to where they did. They were presenting their sort of brilliant but challenging breakthrough music through this beautiful young girl who could sing it perfectly.”
Kidada Jones
“I think about her all the time…Anytime she’s brought up or her music comes on the radio, it’s sweet, but it definitely sounds like she found a niche before it was here. If you listen to her music it’s so relevant today, but we had it so long ago.”
Damon Dash
“She was already a fashion icon, she was getting into movies, she had already planted that seed. If she was alive today she would be so relevant. I see little bits of her everywhere I look, in a lot of artists.”
Jomo Hankerson
“I think a lot of that mysteriousness they talk about was just what she was. She seemed like she came here already grown up, from the beginning.”
