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Whitney Elizabeth Houston (born August 9, 1963) is a Grammy award-winning American R&B singer, actress, film producer, and former model. She is well-known for her powerful vocals, melismatic vocal inflections, and expansive vocal range.. more...

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Houston was one of a few black artists to receive heavy rotation on MTV in the 1980s during a male rock dominated time, in the network's early years. AOL Black Voices said "Though her success seemed like a lightening rod, it was always validated by Whitney's polished and powerful vocal abilities - making her known as "The Voice". She is the only female artist to have two albums in the top 35 best selling albums in the US, and is the only artist to have a record seven consecutive Billboard Hot 100 #1 hit singles. Houston has sold over 170 million records worldwide. Houston is considered one of the 100 most fascinating black women of the 20th century according to Ebony magazine.

After marrying R&B singer Bobby Brown at the height of her career, rumors of drug and spousal abuse led to a decline in her album sales and her public image. Her personal troubles would be talked about more than any of her music, regularly appearing in the tabloid press. Houston began looking and sounding less like the singer people came to know and she stopped making public appearances. Houston underwent two drug rehab programs in 2005 and 2006. After a successful second program in 2006, Houston divorced Bobby Brown and gained custody of their daughter, Bobbi Kristina. She has since been working on her 7th studio album with music mogul and close friend and mentor Clive Davis.

Early life

Whitney Houston was born in Newark, New Jersey, and is the third and youngest child of John and Cissy Houston. She was raised a Baptist, but was also exposed to the Pentecostal church. As a teenager, she attended a Roman Catholic single-sex high school, Mount Saint Dominic Academy. Houston’s mother Cissy, her first cousin (Dionne Warwick), and godmother (Aretha Franklin) are all notable figures in the gospel music, rhythm and blues and soul music genres. At the age of eleven, Houston began to follow in their footsteps and started performing as a soloist in the junior gospel choir at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark.

Music career

Early career: 1977–1984

Houston spent much of her teenage years touring night clubs with her mother. In 1977, at fourteen years of age, Houston was featured as the lead singer on the Michael Zager Band’s single “Life’s a Party.” Zager subsequently offered to help obtain a recording contract for the young singer, but Cissy declined, wanting her daughter to finish school first. Then in 1979, at age sixteen, Houston sang background vocals on Chaka Khan’s hit single "I'm Every Woman", a song she would later turn into a bigger hit for herself on her monstrous selling "The Bodyguard" soundtrack album. In the early 1980s, Houston worked as a fashion model, snagging the cover of Seventeen magazine and appearing in a Canada Dry soft drink commercial. While modelling, and touring nightclubs with her mother, she continued her recording career, working with producers Michael Bienhorn, Bill Laswell and Martin Bisi on an album they were spearheading called One Down, which was credited to the group Material. For that project, Houston contributed the ballad “Memories” (composed by Hugh Hopper, lyrics by Robert Wyatt), which Robert Christgau of the The Village Voice called "one of the most gorgeous ballads you've ever heard" upon the album's release.

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