Just Be Free

Just Be Free
Demo album by
ReleasedAugust 21, 2001[1]
Recorded1994–1995[1]
Genre
Length45:59
LabelWarlock[1]
Producer
  • Bobby Allecca
  • Michael Brown[1]
Christina Aguilera chronology
My Kind of Christmas
(2000)
Just Be Free
(2001)
Stripped
(2002)

Just Be Free is a demo album released by Warlock Records featuring music recorded by American singer Christina Aguilera. After finishing her run on The All-New Mickey Mouse Club, a then fifteen-year-old Aguilera began recording the album with New Jersey-based producers Robert Allecca and Michael Brown. The pair gave Aguilera the opportunity to use a recording studio and presented her with demo music.

Musically, the album consists of dance style tracks as well as ballads, and saw Aguilera performing Spanish-language songs. The record was conceived to showcase Aguilera's vocals in an effort to reach out to record labels, a venture which actually backfired after the recordings were not very well received among critics. Six years after the completion of the album and Aguilera had achieved mainstream success, Brown and Allecca released the record. Just Be Free has sold over 129,000 copies in the United States.[2]

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  2. ^ Trust, Gary (August 24, 2019). "Ask Billboard: A Supersized Mailbag in Honor of Lil Nas X & Billy Ray Cyrus' Record Run Atop the Hot 100". Billboard. Retrieved August 24, 2019.