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On Aug. 25, 2001, the world was shaken by the loss of R&B singer Aaliyah Dana Houghton, who was killed in a plane crash. On Jan. 16, 2014, the “Rock the Boat” singer would have been 35 years old.

In honor of what would have been her 35th birthday, photographer Eric Johnson shared rare photos and negatives from a gorgeous “Entertainment Weekly” spread he shot just one month before her death.

In July of her final year, Eric Johnson photographed Aaliyah for Entertainment Weekly, and since that time, photographs from the shoot that have  gone around the globe. Whether gracing the cover of Vibe magazine’s memorial issue or illustrating Aaliyah’s Wikipedia page, the photographs have become so emblematic of that singer’s mystique that they have been remade countless times as murals, paintings, and drawings that are seen everywhere from Instagram to Times Square.

View the rare photos below.

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