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Christina Milian was born in Jersey City in 1981 from Cuban American parents. The family moved to Maryland soon after her birth and Milian set her heart on an entertainment industry career at the age of four. At 13, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in show business.
Her first significant role was as a reporter on the Disney Channel's Movie Surfers show in 1998 billed as Tina Flores. While in this role she also started appearing in minor roles in A Bug's Life and American Pie and in guest appearances on television shows Charmed, Clueless and Get Real .
In 2000, Christina Milian performed vocals on Ja Rule's song "Between You And Me" from his Rule 3:36 album - the song became a hit building a reputation. She also co-wrote the track "Play" for Jennifer Lopez's J. Lo album of 2001 which became another big hit as well as the song "Same Ol' Same Ol", the first single for girl group PYT's album Down With Me .
In 2001, Milian released her first single of her own "From AM To PM". It became a worldwide hit reaching top 5 in the UK and Denmark, Top 10 in the Netherlands and top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100The Billboard Hot 100 is the main singles chart used by Billboard magazine''. The new charts go into effect every Saturday, while the charts are posted every previous Thursday on the website. What is now the Hot 100 existed for nearly 15 years as almost a and in Australia. The success of From AM To PM sparked the international release of the Christina Milian album although not in the US. The single "When You Look At Me" was another international hit going top 5 in the UK, Netherlands, and Ireland and making the top 40 in Denmark, Australia and France. She also featured on "It's All Gravy", a duet with Romeo of the garageGarage has several meanings: In connection with vehicles, a garage has the following meanings: A building attached to or in the grounds of a residence for storing an automobile (UK: car) A vehicle repair shop Additionally, in British English, a garage may group So Solid CrewSo Solid Crew are a UK garage act whose hits include 'Oh No' and '21 Seconds', the latter of which got to number one in the official UK chart in August 2001. Another hit, 'They Don't Know', hit number three in November 2001 and 'Haterz' got to number seve. It was another UK top ten hit single in 2002. She also wrote and sang the theme song for the Disney series Kim PossibleKim Possible is a Disney Channel original animated series about a 15-year-old special agent named Kim Possible who has the task of dealing with worldwide, family and school issues every day. Kim often finds herself criss-crossing the globe in an attempt t "Call Me Beep Me" in the same year.
Milian was appointed to host the Wannabes program on MTVMTV is a cable television network, originally devoted to music videos, especially popular rock music. MTV later became an outlet for a variety of different material aimed at adolescents and young adults. Since 1985, MTV has been owned by Viacom. Its name in 2002. She met director Joseph KahnJoseph Kahn is a notable director of music videos. Some of his videos include those for Britney Spears' songs "Stronger" (2000) and "Toxic" (2004), as well as Ashlee Simpson's song "La La" (2004). on an episode of Wannabes who suggested she audition for a lead role in Torque opposite Ice CubeThis page is about a person. You may be looking for ice cubes made of frozen water. Ice Cube (born June 15, 1969) is a controversial American rapper, originally a member of the N. Niggaz Wit' Attitude) until launching a successful solo career in music and. Her audition was successful leading in turn to a lead role in Love Don't Cost a Thing in 2003. She will be in significant roles in a further two films to come out within a year of May 2004 - Cheer Up opposite Tommy Lee JonesTommy Lee Jones (born September 15, 1946) is an American actor and director from San Saba, Texas. A graduate of the St. Mark's School of Texas, he attended Harvard on a scholarship, where he was a roommate of the future Vice President Al Gore at Dunster H and co-starring in Be Cool with John Travolta and Uma Thurman.
During 2003, Christina Milian recorded songs for her first US album It's About Time which is a reference to how long it has taken for an album to be released in the US. The first single "Dip It Low" was written by Polli Paul who has also written songs for the Black Eyed Peas. As of May 2004, the first single has reached number one on a world composite dance chart (compiled on data from the US, UK, Germany, Japan, Italy and Australia) reached the top 3 in the UK and the top 40 in Australia. It has also been slowly climbing the Billboard Hot 100. The second single "Whatever U Want", features Joe Budden and once again reached the top 10 in the UK as well as charting in the Billboard Hot 100.