

In March 1990, Aguilera took part in the Star Search, but lost the competition.


In the end, Christina's family had to move to another town. But Aguilera's gift had a darker side – her peers envied her, so they bullied and ostracized the girl, even slashed the tires of their family car. She strived to become a singer, winning all the local talent competitions. Since her early years Christina listened to Madonna, Aretha Franklin, and Whitney Houston. Her problematic childhood became one of the constant themes of Aguilera's creativity, including the song Oh Mother from her last album Back to Basics. Fausto Aguilera wrote to his daughter, but she refused from any communication with him as her father was often rude to Christina and her mother, sometimes even physically abusive. The mother took the girls to Pennsylvania where they settled in a town under Pittsburg. Her parents divorced when Christina was seven. The head of the family was a military officer for the moment he was stationed in Canada and Japan, where his wife and two daughters lived with him. Christina Maria Aguilera was born into a family of Fausto Wagner Xavier Aguilera from Ecuador and teacher of Spanish Shelly Loraine Fidler.
