Profession: Singer

Age ain't nothing but a number, until you marry R. Kelly when you're 15. (The marriage was later annulled, but really, Kells??) The "Princess of R&B," but also its Lolita, Aaliyah Dana Haughton truly was one in a million, which is exactly why her tragic death in a plane crash in the Bahamas in August 2001 when she was just 22 years old left a gaping hole in contemporary R&B that has still proved impossible to fill. Allegedly linked to both Jay-Z and Dame Dash (and said to be the beginning of the end of the Roc as a result), no one female R&B singer has ever been as crazy, sexy, and cool as Aaliyah. It was the hips, it was the bangs, it was the moves, it was the style, and it was the music—baby girl had it all. T.R.O.Y., for real.