Whitney Houston was built-in in Newark, New Jersey in 1963 to John Houston and Cissy Houston, a actuality singer. Dionne Warwick is her accessory and Aretha Franklin is her godmother. By age 11 Whitney was afterward in her mother's footsteps and was assuming in the inferior actuality choir at their New Hope Baptist Church.
Houston spent some of her boyish years touring nightclubs with her mother while Cissy was performing, and she would occasionally get on date and accomplish with her mother. Then in 1978, at age fifteen, she got a big break, singing accomplishments vocals on Chaka Khan's hit individual "I'm Every Woman;" a song she would afterwards about-face into a hit for herself on her massive-selling soundtrack anthology The Bodyguard. Around this time Whitney Houston aswell started alive as a appearance model. She appeared in Seventeen Annual and afterwards became one of the aboriginal African-American women to arise on the boyhood magazine's cover.
Houston active with Arista in 1983 and had her aboriginal To 5 R&B hit with a individual appear in 1984. Whitney Houston appear her admission anthology Whitney Houston in 1985, which became the acknowledged admission anthology by a changeable artisan according to the music annual Billboard magazine. In 1986 she acreage the awning of People annual as "America's Top New Star."
Her additional flat anthology Whitney (1987) became the aboriginal anthology by a changeable artisan to admission at amount one on the Billboard magazine's Top 200 albums chart.
From her aboriginal two albums and beyond, Whitney Houston became one of the a lot of acknowledged changeable singers of all time. She has won seven Grammy Awards and been nominated 26 times.
In 1989 Whitney met R&B accompanist Bobby Brown at the Soul Train Music Awards. Bobby Brown was aswell a acknowledged performer, accepting had several hits with his accumulation New Edition and afterwards as a abandoned artist. Bobby and Whitney affiliated on July 18, 1992 on the area of Whitney's home in Mendham, New Jersey. Afterwards in 1993 they accustomed babe Bobby Kristina Houston Brown.
Following her alliance to Bobby Brown, Houston accomplished astounding success with her the cine The Bodyguard in 1992. The movie's aboriginal soundtrack won the 1994 Grammy Award for Anthology of the Year, and became the world's acknowledged soundtrack of all time. Its single, "I Will Always Love You," became one of the acknowledged singles in music history.
Much to the annoyance of Whitney's fans, anon afterwards her success with The Bodyguard, rumors that the accompanist was application drugs with her bedmate broadcast in celebrity magazines like People magazine, Us Weekly annual and OK! annual afterwards she absent performances, airport aegis apparent marijuana in her baggage and appeared to sustain a affecting weight loss. By 2000 she was afresh on the awning of People magazine, this time beneath the headline, "Whitney's Troubled Times."
In 2002, Houston did an account with Diane Sawyer to advance her accessible album. During the prime-time special, Houston batten on capacity including accounted biologic use and marriage. She was asked about the advancing biologic rumors and replied, "First of all, let's get one affair straight. Able is cheap. I accomplish too abundant money to anytime smoke crack. Let's get that straight. Okay? We don't do crack. We don't do that. Able is wack." Houston did, however, accept to application assorted substances at times.
Despite her aberrant behavior and acutely annihilative marriage, Houston connected to brilliant in affection films and contributed to soundtracks. She renewed her recording arrangement with Arista Records in 2001 for an aberrant $100 actor dollars. She afterwards appear her fifth flat album, Just Whitney the afterward year with her sixth flat anthology One Wish: The Holiday Anthology getting appear in 2003.
Finally afterwards years of claimed and able turmoil, Whitney Houston concluded her alliance to Bobby Brown in 2006.
The accompanist gave her aboriginal account in seven years, actualization on The Oprah Winfrey appearance in September. In the account Houston accepted she was absorbed to able cocaine and edger and that Bobby Brown was emotionally abusive.
With her new anthology I Look to You, Whitney Houston's has her aboriginal amount one anthology back The Bodyguard, and her aboriginal flat anthology to ability amount one back 1987's Whitney.
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