Christina Milian

Christina Milian

It's About Time (Island)

Christina Milian's life as a pop star could - and should - have been so different. Maybe she shouldn't have dyed her hair the same honey-brown as Beyonce. Perhaps that Janet Jackson-like photo spread in her CD booklet wasn't such a good idea. And

if only she'd mastered the ooh-aah vocal style before it became J.Lo's stock-in-trade.

The pretty, young, Maryland-raised daughter of Cuban-American parents is an accomplished singer, songwriter, dancer and actress in her own right (although she's probably best known as the love interest in Ja Rule's smash hit Between Me and You, and as the writer of J.Lo's Play).

As an artist trying to plant her diva heel in the crowded urban-pop scene, however, Milian struggles for her share of the limelight. Her self-titled debut of 2001 proved she could sing, dance and pout along with the best of them.