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Grammy Award-winning artist Christina Aguilera with be the first-ever “Music Icon” of the People’s Choice Awards. She will receive the honor during the award ceremony taking place Dec. 7 at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, where she’s also scheduled to perform.
The awards are presented by cable channel E! since the network acquired them in 2017. They recognize artists in entertainment with winners selected by the general public online.
A top-selling pop artist, Aguilera is an accomplished singer, songwriter, actress and television personality who started as a child actor in Disney’s The Mickey Mouse Club in the first half of the 1990s. She rose to become a music sensation at the end of that decade and beginning of the 2000s with hits like “Genie in a Bottle”, “What a Girl Wants” and “Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You)”. A long streak of hits would follow through the years, including “Beautiful,” “Fighter,” “Can’t Hold Us Down,” “Ain’t No Other Man” and “Hurt” as well as collaborations with artists like Maroon Five, Pitbull and A Great Big World.
The artist of Ecuadorian descent released a Spanish-language album in 2000, Mi Reflejo, which won her a Latin Grammy. She has supported various social causes and programs like the UN’s World Food Program, for which she was an ambassador traveling to various nations suffering from high rates of malnutrition including Guatemala, Ecuador and Rwanda.
The singer has reportedly sold around 75 million records worldwide.
In her music career, Aguilera has won five Grammy Awards, two MTV Video Music Awards, one Billboard Music Award. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
This year’s People’s Choice Awards will be hosted by SNL’s comedian and actor Kenan Thompson. The show will include a tribute honoring the life and legacy of R&B singer Marvin Gaye and the 50th anniversary of the release of his renowned record “What’s Going On.” The tribute performances will include Grammy and Academy Award-winning singer H.E.R.
Another two Latina artists, Cardi B and Becky G, will be among more than a dozen presenters at the awards show. The pair of Grammy Award-winning singers will join a roster of more than a dozen Hollywood actors presenting the awards. They include Chase Stokes (Outer Banks), Eliza Coupe (Pivoting), Ginnifer Goodwin (Pivoting), Jack Quaid (Scream), Jojo Siwa (Siwas Dance Pop Revolution), Laverne Cox (Promising Young Woman), Leslie Jones (Coming 2 America), Lil Rel Howery (Free Guy, Vacation Friends), Lili Reinhart (Riverdale), Maggie Q (Pivoting), Mike Epps (The Upshaws), Paris Jackson (American Horror Stories), Sydney Sweeney (Euphoria), Tracee Ellis Ross (Black-ish) and Wanda Sykes (The Upshaws).
This year the People’s Choice Awards will air simultaneously for the first time on both NBC and E! Tuesday at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Live from E!: The 2021 People’s Choice Awards will kick off the night with a red carpet special at 7 p.m. ET/PT on E!
Voting for the 2021 People’s Choice Awards is now closed.
Check out the video for “Pa Mis Muchachas” by Aguilera, Becky G, Nicki Nicole ft. Nathy Peluso.
