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Aaliyah 

When Aaliyah was ten years old, she was already a huge fan of the talent competition. She and her mother watched the show faithfully. And naturally, she wanted to be a part of it. So she auditioned and was accepted. She got on the show and sang “My Funny Valentine” because it was one of her mother’s favorite songs. She gave a solid performance but lost to the sitting champion. Her brother Rashad spoke about how he admired his sister’s reaction to the loss.

“It was tough for her to lose but what was amazing was she dried her tears and she went back out and she sat in the audience and she watched the rest of the show. And that to me embodied Aaliyah. You know what I’m not going to give up and I’m not going to be weak.”

And Aaliyah said:

“I learned about rejection and the fact that you know, you don’t win all the time. So you just get up, you dust yourself off and you try again. Wouldn’t trade it for the world.”