Christina Aguilera performs in Hanoi

She and the live band started with “Beautiful,” a pop and R&B ballad from her album “Stripped” (2002).

She then sang “The Voice Within,” an anthem about trusting oneself and one’s instincts, and the inspirational “A Million Dreams” from the musical “The Greatest Showman.”

Christina Aguilera performs at Hanoi Opera House on December 20, 2022. Photo by VnExpress/Giang Huy

Several other Vietnamese and international artists also performed at the ceremony, including violinist Bui Cong Duy and Japanese conductor Honna Tetsuji.

Aguilera arrived in Vietnam on her birthday, December 18.

She and her fiancé took a helicopter tour to Ha Long Bay, around two hours east of the capital, to celebrate her birthday on a luxury cruise. The couple also went kayaking along limestone karst mountains.

Aguilera, born in the U.S. in 1980, became famous as a child star on Walt Disney’s The Mickey Mouse Club along with Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Ryan Gosling.

When her first album came out in 1999, it topped the Billboard 200 and sold more than 17 million copies.

She is one of the best-selling artists of all time with more than 75 million albums sold so far. She has won five Grammy Awards and one Latin Grammy.

Within a few years, in 2008, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Aguilera in its list of 100 best singers of all time.

The media has dubbed her the “Voice of a Generation.”

 

 

Christina Aguilera performs in Hanoi

Christina Aguilera hát ‘A Million Dreams’