Christina Aguilera on bringing Burlesque to the stage and her rise to fame

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Christina Aguilera has told Sky News it is "magical" to spot her deed movie Burlesque being brought to London's West End - and besides opened up astir her emergence to fame successful the precocious 1990s.

The US prima topped the US and UK charts with Genie In A Bottle successful 1999, earlier uncovering an adjacent bigger assemblage with her acclaimed medium Stripped and hits including Dirrty, Beautiful and Fighter successful the aboriginal 2000s.

In 2010, she starred successful Burlesque alongside Cher, Julianne Hough and Stanley Tucci, and now, 15 years later, is simply a shaper for the signifier mentation of the amusement alongside the film's archetypal manager and writer, Steven Antin.

Speaking up of the show's gala night, Aguilera told Sky News presenter Leah Boleto she has enjoyed taking a backseat and seeing the caller mentation of her quality - a small-town miss turned into a star.

"It's conscionable truthful beauteous to spot the endowment that's connected this signifier and to sorb it and admit the caller takes connected things," she said. "I emotion really taking a measurement backmost and a backseat… it's beauteous to spot the reinvention.

"When you're successful it, you absorption connected the choreography, each these antithetic elements, that being capable to instrumentality a backseat and being much of a visionary of the bigger picture, it's truly a peculiar thing."

Aguilera said she had been "blown away" by Jess Folley, who plays her quality Ali successful the show, and has afloat embraced the "powerhouse vocals" arsenic good arsenic the vulnerability needed for the role.

"She conscionable is doing specified a magnificent, magnificent occupation and likewise inspires maine arsenic well," she said.

Aguilera said she would emotion to spot her movie co-star Cher popping by to spot the amusement successful London.

"She's ever invited to grace america with her incredible, iconic presence. And I'm conscionable truthful grateful that I had the clip to beryllium with her. I mean, looking back, it's conscionable - did that adjacent happen?"

Aguilera arrived connected the country astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic Britney Spears, astatine a clip erstwhile young pistillate popular stars were celebrated, sexualised and scrutinised.

After the occurrence of her debut album, she took a antithetic absorption with Stripped - embracing her sexuality and famously taking connected a little girlish representation with chaps, a chemoreceptor stud and achromatic streaks successful her hairsbreadth for the Dirrty video, and opening up astir her beingness and emotions done songs specified arsenic Fighter and Beautiful.

She besides took connected the patriarchy successful Can't Hold Us Down, a duet with Lil' Kim, and performed connected the deed screen of Lady Marmalade alongside Lil' Kim, Maya and Pink for Moulin Rouge!

"I ever privation to enactment existent to authenticity," she said. "And for me, with that archetypal medium it was fantastic to get my ft successful the door...

"It's important to maine that I stepped retired connected my ain and reflected each sides of maine arsenic a woman, embracing my sexuality and sensuality, and my body... Dirrty, I conscionable loved those chaps and everything astir that was conscionable truthful amusive and raw."

So would she bash it each again, then? Or would she similar to beryllium an creator starting retired now?

"The '90s, it was a beauteous peculiar clip successful music. And it was a clip erstwhile you could inactive similar spell to Virgin records oregon similar wherever and look astatine the CDs, look astatine the packaging. And, you know, sometimes the authenticity is missed."

However, the bully happening astir societal media present is that it has fixed stars the means to archer their ain stories, she adds. "You person an accidental present to truly contiguous yourself successful ways that it's not conscionable astir the music, to go much the narrator successful existent time… this is what it is like, beryllium your ain dependable alternatively than speechmaking astir yourself successful an article."

But still, she wouldn't swap. "It has to enactment wherever it was."

Burlesque The Musical is showing astatine The Savoy theatre successful London now

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