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Aaliyah 1995: A portentous portrait in Detroit a week after her 16th birthday

Frank Broughton, i-D, 1995

It’s 8.15. A car draws up outside Detroit’s newly-built High School For The Performing Arts and out steps a pretty young thing, dressed warmly against the cold morning air.

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