Aaliyah
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Today’s post is going to be difficult for those of us that have been around on this earth longer than the last 10 years. Here at Black Ghetto Baby Names, we are huge fans of soul music and R&B music, and few artists in the genre have been as tragic as Aaliyah. Today we’ll talk about her name and her history, and end with a few musings from yours truly.
Aaliyah
First, the history of recent memory’s most beloved Aaliyah. The name Aaliyah entered the American mainstream conscious in the 90s with advent of the likewise named singer. Aaliyah was a famous singer, dancer, actress, and model who, in her short career, sold over 80 million records worldwide in collaboration with Timbaland in Missy Elliott. As we all know, she perished in a plane crash leaving the
When it comes to the dead, there are few soft comforts we can take with us through the rough and lonely days without. However, one of those is the legacy of a name. The name Aaliyah is in fact not a “Black Ghetto Baby Name”, but rather a name steeped in the religion of Islam. The female version of the Arabic “Ali”, Aaliyah means “high, lofty, sublime” in the original language.
And that is how we would like to remember her, just as, since her death, hundreds of others have commemorated her with the names of their wide-eyed young children. And Aaliyah will always live on with us in the first small mewlings of a brown child opening its eyes to the beauty and tragedy of life.
Epilogue
We’ve learned today about Aaliyah. The name, though it appears to be a “Black Ghetto Baby Name” in the modern
Love to all the world, love to my readers on this night, and to the moon that slips its silver thread through the eyes of the wondering.
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