Singer, actress Aaliyah was born Dana Haughton, on January 16, 1979, in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. The youngest child of Diane and Michael Haughton, Aaliyah means “highest, most exalted one” in Arabic. When Aaliyah was five years old, her family moved to Detroit, Michigan, where she was raised along with her older brother, Rashad. Aaliyah’s mother was […]