Christina Aguilera s latest album is a celebration of her heritage in more ways than one.

Unveiled this spring, Aguilera is the five-time Grammy winners second Spanish-language album following 2000s Mi Reflejo. Though the 12-song sets title seems almost like a no-brainer, the pop star said in an interview timed to Billboard Latin Music Week that it was partly inspired by her early days in the music business, when record executives repeatedly suggested she drop her surname.

Im proud to be an Aguilera, she explained to HOLA! magazine . Something that I really embody and understand is that, you know, this is a name that has been tried to be taken away from me on numerous occasions coming up in this business.

At first, Aguilera wasnt too fazed by the suggestion, acknowledging that her surname has been butchered a lot as its not the easiest name for everyone to pronounce.

She also didnt identify any specific executives whod pushed for the change, and noted that shed prefer to keep the bad names that I could have been to herself.