Aaliyah’s official cause of death included “severe burns and a blow to the head,” the pathologist who performed autopsies on the victims testified in court during a coroner’s inquest into the crash in ...

Known as the ‘Princess of R&B,’ legendary singer-songwriter Aaliyah was at the height of her career when she tragically died in a plane crash in the Bahamas on Aug. 25, 2001. To ...

Aaliyah starred in the vampire film Queen of the Damned, showing how Black women shaped alt music but were too often ...

Aaliyah's story had barely begun before it was out of her hands. But here we are—24 years after her untimely death in a plane crash at the age of 22—still unpacking her influence on pop culture.

She was only 22 when she died in a plane crash on August 25, 2001, but Aaliyah had been working in the music industry for more than a decade, with her legacy continuing to this day.