Christina Milian

She was in a romantic relationship with Nick Cannon. The two struck it well for two and a half years until they parted ways, after she complained of his infidelity.

She then started dating musician The-Dream. They were engaged in 2009 to marry each other in September. The couple was blessed with their first child, a daughter Violet Madison Nash, in February 2010. However, before the birth of the child, the two separated making a formal announcement only in July 2010.

In September 2010, she started dating Jas Prince. Three years henceforth in 2013, it was announced that the two were engaged. They called off the engagement in June 2014.

Christina Milian was born as Christine Flores to Carmen and Don Flores in Jersey City, New Jersey. She was the oldest of the three daughters born to the couple.

At an early age, she changed her name from Flores to Milian and moved with her family to Waldorf, Maryland.

Since the tender age of four, she showed sparks of making it as an entertainer. Her family soon realized her potential as an imaginative and creative child and fully supported her ambition to pursue a career in entertainment.

At nine, she first auditioned for a role with the local talent agencies. She played the spoof in a number of commercials before bagging the lead role in the musical ‘Annie’. Four years later, she moved to Los Angeles along with her mother and sister siblings to try her luck.

It was at Los Angeles that she dreamt of bagging a recording contract. After a series of events, she finally started working with producer Jerkins at his studio. By 17, she started penning songs to record a demo that would help her obtain a recording contract.

She made her debut with her first ever professional musical appearance for Ja Rule’s second studio album, “Rule 3:36’ performing vocals for the song, ‘Between Me and You’. The song peaked at number 11 on the Billboard charts

Following this, she performed back vocals for a number of singers and co-wrote various singles before recording her self-titled debut album. The album, ‘Christina Milian’ upon its release debuted at the number 23 position selling more than 101,986 copies.

In the US, the release of her debut album was postponed in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks - to be finally released in 2002. However, she eventually curtailed its release and instead issued two singles from the album, ‘AM to PM’ and ‘When You Look at Me’.

Following the mixed response from both the critics and the public, she contributed for the singles of established singers such as British rapper Romeo’s ‘It’s All Gravy’, Hilary Duff’s Christmas album song ‘I Heard Santa on the Radio’ and theme song for the hit Disney series Kim Possible, ‘Call Me, Beep Me!’.

Passionate about acting too, her successful tryst in singing earned her a couple of acting roles as well. She played minor roles in films and televisions, including ‘Sister, Sister’, ‘Smart Guy’, ‘The Steve Harvey Show’, ‘Get Real’, ‘The Wood’ and ‘American Pie’.

Over her career, she has been nominated a couple of times both as an an actor and a singer. Her most prized nominations include the 2005 Grammy Award nominations for Best Contemporary R&B Album and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration. The same year, she won the Humanitarian Award at the Reign fundraiser from the Elton John AIDS Foundation.

In 2006, she won Ozone Award for Best R&B Female, which she followed in 2008 with the Imagen Foundation Award for Best TV Actress for ‘Snowglobe’. In 2013, she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality-Competition Program for ‘The Voice’