Just weeks earlier, she had released her third album, Aaliyah, a well-received collection of songs that mapped her personal growth during the five years since her second full-length, 1996’s One In A Million. In life, Aaliyah was often described by friends and collaborators as angelic in her death, that image persists. The Cessna twin-engine crashed moments after takeoff, killing the singer and eight others. In August, after wrapping her scenes in the Bahamas, Aaliyah boarded a flight home. She seems peaceful, softer than in previous clips. The video for “Rock The Boat,” the 2001 single that would be her last, looks as if it were beamed down from one of the mythical seven heavens: gently lapping water, the flare of a bright sun, women dressed in all white. Whether you b elieve in the afterlife or not, it’s easy enough to picture Aaliyah in heaven.
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