The life of the late R’n’B superstar Aaliyah is to be turned into a biopic by US network Lifetime. Zendaya Coleman, of Disney’s ‘Shake It Up’ and US show ‘Dancing With The Stars’, has been signed to play the songstress in an original production to be aired this fall.‘Aaliyah: Princess of R’n’B’ will chart the singer’s rise from Star Search contestant at 10 years old to global superstar before her premature, and tragic, death at 22 in a plane crash. In addition to playing Aaliyah, Coleman is due to record four of Aaliyah’s songs for the film.Aaliyah released three albums during her lifetime (all of which went double-platinum) and scored a total of five Grammy nominations, including three posthumous nods for her final self-titled album and its accompanying singles. In 2000 she scored a Billboard No. 1 single with ‘Try Again’ off the soundtrack for ‘Romeo Must Die’, a film she also starred in alongside Jet Li. Her second feature film, ‘Queen of the Damned’ opposite Stuart Townsend, was released several months after her death.http://youtu.be/5oAeoOcpUS4
