Aaliyah Haughton Biopic, anyone?

       Aaliyah "Baby Girl" Haughton. Immensely talented, incredibly humble, beautiful both inside and out --- and replicable?

         Rumors of the late "Queen of R&B" spiritually starring in an Aaliyah biography film surfaced just a year after her passing in an airplane crash on August 25th 2001. As we all know, this was just a month prior to the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers in New York City; this left a heavy mourning period for all effected by both the loss of Aaliyah and those involved in the attack.

         Yet around the time of grieving for the lost ones in 2001, a buzz began to surround the process of a movie being made in honor of Aaliyah's life, which was beautiful in thought, until the idea came to decide who should portray Haughton --- meet Canadian born R&B artist, Keshia Chanté.

         Although many may see the two sharing a few resemblances (enough to have Keshia take on the role of Aaliyah), not everyone was content with such a situation; take Aaliyah's brother, Rashad for example.

Rashad Haughton, along with family have been hush-hush on the potential biopic with Keshia Chanté starring as Aaliyah, perhaps in hopes to prevent the situation from blossoming all together. Only as of August 2012, Aaliyah's older brother, Rashad has spoken out on the rumors, taking his opinion public with FaceBook.

         Now if that doesn't put any rumor of an Aaliyah biopic to rest, I don't know what will. In retrospect, according to an interview from CYInterview.com, Keshia Chanté mentions she understands "there are people trying to create a movie and Aaliyah’s family are still mourning her loss and aren’t ready to share her story and create a film". Yet, she doesn't want to "disrespect [Aaliyah's] family" but still "[wants] her family to be on board and to be happy with it", if it ever were to happen.

      Now a lot of Aaliyah fans may be saying that exactly, but in all honesty I feel if the Haughton family wishes to not have a film produced about their beloved 'Baby Girl' while she is portrayed by  Keshia Chanté, or the likes of her, then that should be respected. Aaliyah will after all, remain in our hearts and here in spirit always. Let us remember her life the way she lived it when she was here, and continue to celebrate her legacy.