Whitney Houston
American singer, actress, and film producer (1963-2012) · United States · Musicians · Died at 48
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Something wrong?A voice so precise it bent genres, so powerful it carried a national anthem into legend. She held the Billboard summit longer than anyone thought possible, sold more records than nearly anyone alive, then watched the machinery of fame and addiction slowly collapse the ground beneath her.
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I Go to the Rock - The Gospel Music of Whitney HoustonAlbum released after her death24 March 2023, 2023 compilation album by Whitney Houston14 tracksArista RecordsOpen on Spotify2022Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with SomebodyBiopic about her life22 December 2022, 2022 film directed by Kasi LemmonsIMDb2020Rock and Roll Hall of FameAward2018WhitneyDocumentary about her16 May 2018, 2018 film directed by Kevin MacdonaldIMDb2017Whitney: Can I Be MeDocumentary about her8 June 2017, 2017 documentary film directed by Rudi Dolezal and Nick BroomfieldIMDbI Wish You Love: More from The BodyguardAlbum released after her death, 2017 soundtrack album (reissue) by Whitney Houston2017Legacy Recordings2014Whitney Houston Live: Her Greatest PerformancesAlbum released after her death, 2014 live album by Whitney HoustonLegacy Recordings2013New Jersey Hall of FameAward2012I Will Always Love You - The Best of Whitney HoustonAlbum released after her death13 November 2012, 2012 greatest hits album by Whitney HoustonRCA RecordsSparkleFilm released after her death11 October 2012, 2012 film by Salim Akil2012IMDbDied11 February 20122009
I Look To YouAlbum, 11 tracks2003
One Wish / The Holiday AlbumAlbum, 11 tracksEditions: Deluxe Version2002
Just WhitneyAlbum, 10 tracks2000NRJ Music Award for International Album of the YearAward1998
My Love Is Your LoveAlbum, 13 tracks1996
The Preacher's WifeAlbum, 15 tracks1992
The Bodyguard - Original Soundtrack AlbumAlbum, 12 tracks1963Born9 August 1963Also in Deutsch
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New Hope Baptist Church, where Houston sang in the choir as a child
Houston gave her first public non-church performance at Manhattan's Town Hall as a teenager.
Houston performing during the 1987-1988 Moment of Truth World Tour
Houston performing "Greatest Love of All" on the Welcome Home Heroes concert in 1991
Houston performing at a state dinner in the White House honoring South African president Nelson Mandela in 1994
Houston outside the Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., on October 16, 2000
Houston performing "I Look to You" on Good Morning America, September 1, 2009In their own words 7
, Success doesn't change you; fame does.
You can fool people. You can fool anybody any time of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you.
I broke my heart for every gain, to taste the sweet I faced the pain.
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Whitney Houston signed to Arista at nineteen and released a debut in 1985 that became the best-selling solo first album ever made. Whitney followed in 1987, making her the first woman to open at number one in the US and UK simultaneously. Her Super Bowl XXV rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" in 1991 became definitive. The Bodyguard arrived in 1992, its soundtrack topping the Billboard 200 for twenty weeks and winning Album of the Year; "I Will Always Love You" became the best-selling single by a woman. She renewed with Arista in 2001 for $100 million, but drug use and a turbulent marriage to Bobby Brown had already begun eroding the image. I Look to You returned her to the top in 2009. On February 11, 2012, she drowned in a bathtub at the Beverly Hilton, heart disease and cocaine contributing factors. The news broke during the Grammys.
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