Aaliyah movie casts Disney's Zendaya

Disney Star Zendaya Coleman Cast as Aaliyah in Lifetime Biopic. 771. Shares. Share. Tweet. Share. What's This? Zendayacoleman Actress/singer Zendaya Coleman arrives at rehearsals for the 2014 MTV Movie Awards in April. Image: Kevork Djansezia.

In the nearly 13 years since she died, Aaliyah has gone from a well-established young R&B star with big pop potential to a full-blown icon whose appeal extends across every conceivable genre line. While there have been a number of attempts to bottle

Sooo…when I first read that Disney star Zendaya Coleman was cast as Aaliyah in the biopic “Aaliyah: Princess of R&B,” I went into one of those self-righteous Black power rants about Zendaya not being brown enough to play 

Are you that somebody, Zendaya? We're about to find out. Lifetime announced on Monday, June 16, that Disney actress and "Replay" singer Zendaya, 17, has been cast as Aaliyah in a new made-for-TV movie about the late R&B superstar, who died at age 

Singer-actress Zendaya is set to star in Lifetime's original movie “Aaliyah: Princess of R&B” (working title) about the life of the late actress and R&B artist Aaliyah, who died in a plane crash in 2001. Zendaya will record four of Aaliyah's songs for