Back to Basics: Live and Down Under
Back to Basics: Live and Down Under is the fourth video album by American singer-songwriter Christina Aguilera. It premiered on television on January 26, 2008, on VH1, and was released on DVD on February 4, 2008, by RCA Records. The DVD included material from recordings from two of Aguilera's concerts during her Back to Basics Tour in Adelaide on July 17 and 18, 2007. Behind-the-scenes footage is included with video from the concerts.
Back to Basics: Live and Down Under
Aguilera performing on the Back to Basics Tour in 2006
Christina MarĂa Aguilera is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and television personality. Referred to as the "Voice of a Generation", she is noted for her four-octave vocal range, musical reinventions, sustaining high notes including use of the whistle register, and a signature use of melisma throughout her music. Recognized as an influential figure in popular music, she also became known for incorporating controversial themes such as feminism, sexuality, LGBT culture and the sex-positive movement into her work. Aguilera was also honoured as a Disney Legend, for her contributions to The Walt Disney Company.
Aguilera performing on The Stripped Tour in 2003
Aguilera performing "Beautiful" at the Breakthrough Prize Scientist Awards, 2014
Aguilera performing on the Liberation Tour at the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado, 2018
Aguilera is known by her melismatic singing technique, yielding comparisons to Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey.