Aaliyah's true legacy is her rare gift for nuance

It is not her 'importance' for which Aaliyah's fans remember her: it is for how she could so effortlessly tap into the human conditionShe would have been 32 this year, but you can't quite imagine Aaliyah Haughton at that age. Her death in a plane crash, 10 years ago this week, was cruelly premature – but she'd already been in the entertainment business for seven years by that point, and it is her youth, frozen in time, that defines her legacy.Aaliyah's signature look was the swoop of hair that...

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