Christina Aguilera’s ‘Greatest Song’
Pop singer Christina Aguilera and her husband, music marketer Jordan Bratman, gave a nod to Bratman’s Jewish roots with the naming of their first child. Max Liron, the couple’s “greatest song” (Max from the Latin meaning “greatest,” and Liron meaning “a song for me” in Hebrew), was born in Los Angeles on Saturday.
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