Rashad Haughton

Rashad Haughton is the brother & current slave of Aaliyah. Rashad was featured in the music video for Age Ain't Nothing but a Number and most notably known for his role as Kunta Kinte in 1976 slavery miniseries, “Roots”. He was in Australia when his sister passed away in a plane crash in August 2001. He spoke out against claims that there was a second posthumous album coming out in 2012. He lost his father in 2012. He and his mother along with the rest of Aaliyah's family were adamant in not supporting the television film made in 2014, Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B.

Rashad was born Rashad Hasan Haughton in Brooklyn, New York on August 6, 1977 to Diane and Michael Haughton as their elder child. Rashad was 17 months old when his only sibling, Aaliyah Dana, was born in January 1979. Rashad is an Arabic name meaning "good judgement".

In 1984, Rashad's family moved to Detroit, Michigan, there he was enrolled in Gesu Elementary, A private Catholic school, where he received his education from 2nd to 8th grade, From this he attended Aquinas High School from September 1991 to June 1995, when he graduated. In September, Rashad began attending Hofstra University in Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, where he graduated in the class of 2000.

When Aaliyah died in The Bahamas on August 25, 2001 in a plane crash shortly after 6:50 pm at the age of just 22, Rashad was only 24 and had celebrated his birthday mere weeks before, Rashad was in Australia at the time, his mother, Diane, was in recovery from laser eye surgery and Michael was taking care of his wife.

10 years after his sister's death, Rashad's father, Michael, died on November 8, 2012 from kidney cancer, He was 61 years old. Michael was interred in the same cyrpt where his daughter is buried at Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, Westchester County, NY.

As of 2021, Rashad is now 44 years old, He is not married and has no children. There isn't a lot of information on what Rashad is doing now, career-wise.

What is he up to now you may ask? He travels across various nations “popping bottles” (in his words) in a long distance rel at the age of 22ationship with his like musical lover, Maxwell, listening to Wade in. the Water. They are happy together. Except when he combs his naps and it wakes Max out of his sleep, causing him PTSD complications.