Aaliyah Biography Slated For December
10/04/01

A little more than three months after a plane crash took the life of 22-year-old singer Aaliyah, a paperback biography on her life and career will arrive in bookstores.

Aaliyah: More Than a Woman is scheduled for release in early December, according to the tome's author, Christopher John Farley. Farley, the pop music critic for Time magazine, said he amassed interviews conducted with the singer/actress and those close to her, including her high school principal, producers Timbaland and Jermaine Dupri, and friend Beyoncé Knowles.

The biography is built around an interview Farley did with Aaliyah for a feature in Time that ran in July, around the time of the release of her most recent album, Aaliyah.

"On each album she grew, and hopefully she'll be a model for other young singers," Farley said. "The way she approached her craft was that she didn't only do what she thought was going to be hot, but she did the stuff that she thought was going to challenge her and her audience while being interesting and good to listen to."

And like the chances she took on the album, Farley said Aaliyah took the same risks in her life. "There are a lot of young singers out there who don't always challenge themselves the way Aaliyah did. She challenged herself in terms of the [acting] roles she took, playing a 6,000-year-old vampire in 'The Queen of the Damned' is a daring role whether it turns out well or poorly."

A Cessna 402B carrying Aaliyah and eight other people crashed on August 25 after taking off from the Bahamas, where the singer was filming a video (see "Aaliyah Killed In Plane Crash"). All those aboard the aircraft were killed.

Christopher John Farley is a co-author of Woodstock 94: The Book and author of My Favorite War, a 1996 novel about a reporter covering Desert Storm. He's currently working on his second novel, The Chocolate Gale, set in 18th century Jamaica.

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