Paris Hilton - Bringing The Best Of Paris Hilton

Sunday, August 27, 2006

Paris Hilton is no stranger to self-promotion. But when she asked DJs to play songs from her upcoming debut album, 'Paris,' last spring, she wasn't so confident.

'People go crazy,' the 25-year-old socialite/reality TV star/singer says in an interview in the September issue of Blender magazine, on newsstands Tuesday. 'They love it. Everyone's like, `Who is this?' I don't tell. Because I don't want someone putting their phone up and recording it and making a ring tone off of it.

'I think when people don't know it's me, they won't judge it. But if they know it's me, then they'll be like, `Ugh.' They won't even dance.'

'Paris' the album was set for release Tuesday. Hilton's breathy, reggae-infused single, 'Stars Are Blind,' has climbed to the top of Billboard's dance music chart.

Of her album, she says, 'I, like, cry, when I listen to it, it's so good.'

Hilton says the baby voice she uses on the reality TV show 'The Simple Life' is an act.

'I'm always playing a character,' she says. 'I don't talk like this really _ like a baby. I don't act like myself in public, because I don't really want to show everyone the real me. Because I have no privacy whatsoever, the only thing I have is who I really am.'

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Paris Hilton was born on February 17th, 1981, to Rick and Kathy Hilton, making her the great-granddaughter of Conrad Hilton, founder of the Hilton hotels and source of the family fortune -- estimated at $300 million. Her grandfather, Conrad "Nicky" Hilton, Jr., also brought some notoriety to the family, as he was the first of Elizabeth Taylor's many ex-husbands. Paris' younger sister, Nicky (born in 1983), shares the throne as co-heiress of the Hilton empire.