Whitney Elizabeth Houston (born August 9 1963 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American Pop, R&B, and Soul and Gospel singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. She was one of a virtually all popular & successful singers of the 1980s and 1990s, receivung multiple Grammy Awards, American Music Awards, Billboard Music Awards, two Emmy Awards, an MTV Video Music Award, and an MTV Movie Award. Her vocals come considered to exist as one of a best ever among pop singers.

Early years
Whitney's mother (Cissy Houston), first cousin (Dionne Warwick) and Godmother (Aretha Franklin) were all constituted Gospel/R&B/Soul singers, which caused her to always be around the presence of music while she was growing up. At a age of Eleven, she began performing as a soloist in the junior gospel choir at the Newly Hope Baptist church in Newark & would late last in to accompanying her mother crane-like. Fallowing appearing her mother's 1978 album, Think It Over, she started as a backing singer for numerous more constituted acts, like Chaka Khan, Jermaine Jackson, and Lou Rawls. At a age of Xvi, she wwhen featured as a lead vocalizer on the Michael Zager Band's single, "Life's a Party". around the early-1980s, she began appearing as a model in various magazines (& potentially appeared on the handle of Seventeen magazine.) In 1982, she made her foremost recording as a featured vocaliser by using a Jazz-Funk ensemble, Material. A song is known as "Memories" & is featured on the class action's album, 1 Down.

First album
By 1983, Houston had entered the worldwide locate Arista Records when Arista chief Clive Davis heard Houston perform at a club by using her mother. A as punishment month got her number 1 commercial profits once "Hold Me", the duet sustaining Teddy Pendergrass, crept into the U.S. top fifty on a pop-singles chart when reaching the top 5 of the R&B charts. Notwithstanding, the rest of that season was taken higher by owning a recording of a debut album. Clive Davis, world health organizatiaround got taken a hard home interest in the vocaliser, insisted on finding the better ballad maker & producers in research of the definitive debut album.

Her eponymic number 1 album was freed inside February 1985, and it began its slow rise higher a album stock and index charts. Its steadily climb was encouraged per profits of the singles "You Give Good Love" and "Saving All My Love for You", which reached numbers 3 & of these severally. A latter lone too saw her in top of the stock & index charts in the UK and very much of the rest of the globe. A soul-influenced "How Will I Know" and the other soul-flavored "Greatest Love of All", both topped a U.S. stock and index charts inside rapid succession.

A year to the year when its release, Whitney Houston hit number one on the album charts. It in time sold terminated fourteen million copies in the U.S. alone, getting it the title right-selling debut ever by an Our contries female creative person (attached by using Britney Spears's 1999 debut album Baby One More Time) Her success was acknowledged by the series of prestigious awards, notably the Right Pop Vocal Performance-Female Grammy for "Saving All My Love for You" & an Emmy for Great Single Performance around the Kind Program in TV.

Whitney's popularity was growing convenient. She landed an advertising treat sustaining Coca-Cola, guest-starred on Gimme a Break and Silver Spoons, and potentially auditioned for the a share of Sondra Huxtable on the total-of these indicate in the united states, The Cosby Show (she lost a a portion to Sabrina Le Beauf).

Whitney
Houstin cemented her whiz status on her next album, Whitney. Despite a unimaginative title, it sold complete nine million copies in the U.S. "I Wanna Dance with Somebody", released inside 1987, topped charts around a world, paving the way for Whitney to be the foremost album by a female creative person to debut at first on the U.S. album chart, the deed it as well achieved in the U.K. Too, Houston experienced the record iv total-of these singles from either an album (the record broken inside 1988, after Michael Jackson took the record while he got 5 total ones from either his album Bad).

the album involved a version of "I Know Him So Well", sung as a duet by using her mother Cissy, & a ballad "Didn't We Almost Have It All", which became her fifth successive U.S. first shortly after. Notwithstanding, possibly this was surpassed while "So Emotional" and "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" continued the sequence, making septet sequentially first hits, breaking the record antecedently divided by the Beatles and the Bee Gees. Houston was besides declared per Guinness Book of World Records to have had a virtually all sequentially U.S. total-of these singles. Inside 1988, she made the controversial appearance at Nelson Mandela's 70th Birthday Person, in which more acts accused her of behaving rather the prima donna. By September, "Love Will Save the Day" had finally broken a winning sequence in the America, in which it may lone handle total nine.

A second series of awards followed, including a Right Pop Vocal Performance-Female Grammy for "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" & Pop Female Vocal & Soul/R&B Female Vocal categories at the American Music Awards. Rumour abounded of film offers alongside such actors when Robert De Niro and Eddie Murphy; however, Houston turned down a lot flick offers at this instance.

''I'm Your Baby Tonight''
Her recording of the title track to the 1988 Olympics tribute, "One Moment in Time", restored her to U.S. top-5 prominence & topped a UK singles chart. A watch-higher lone "I'm Your Baby Tonight" put Houston back on top of the U.S. singles chart. Despite a comparatively mild profits of the album of the equivalent title (total iii in the U.S. stock and index charts), "All The Man That I Need" compensated by becoming her ninth first. She became for good enshrined in a hearts of the Western public, nevertheless, whilst she took the mike to perform "The Star Spangled Banner" at Super Bowl XXV in Tampa. A public response ensured that a version emerged as a lone shortly later on. A lone went gold & helped to raise funds for the American Red Cross. She too performed the song & her more hits at Norfolk, VA when she welcomed back a states troops giving from either the Gulf War using a extremely rated HBO concert.

Early to mid-1990s

The Bodyguard
Inside July 1992, Whitney Houston married R&B singer Bobby Brown; the relationship proved turbulent. In the equivalent month she processed the believable acting debut in the film The Bodyguard alongside Kevin Costner. Houston recorded sestet songs for the phenomenally successful soundtrack album: cover song of Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You", which topped the U.S. chart for xiv weeks & a United Kingdom charts for ten, & Chaka Khan's "I'm Every Woman (Whitney Houston song)", in addition to "I Have Nothing", "Run to You", "Queen of the Night", and "Jesus Loves Me". A album went in to sell seventeen million copies in the U.S. & thirty-seven million worldwide, getting it the title right-selling soundtrack album ever. A film went in to gross all over $120 million in the U.S. & on top $410 million worldwide, making Whitney Houston the movie star was swell as a popular star.

Houston won many awards around 1993 including Grammy Awards for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, Record of the Year, and Album of the Year. Inside 1993, Houston gave birth to her only baby, the girl, whom she known as Bobbi Kristina Light brown. Inside 1994, Houston went on to win the record eight American Music Awards (tied by owning Michael Jackson's Thriller from 1984). Too therearound season, Whitney Houston became a foremost U.s. singer to perform in post-apartheid South Africa. Her concerts raised money to help South Africa's babies.

Waiting to Exhale
Inside 1995, Waiting to Exhale was released. A pic was super successful, earning all over $70 million in the U.S. alone. A entirely female African-U.s. soundtrack was an potentially large hit, selling all over 10 million copies worldwide. It was written & by Houston's close friend Babyface. It featured deuce-ace songs by Houston, a total-1 hit "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)", the top-ten duet using gospel creative person CeCe Winans, "Count On Me" & "Why Does It Hurt So Bad" an emotional song all about love never to return wrong.

Late 1990s to present
''The Preacher's Wife
Within 1996, Whitney Houston co-starred by owning Denzel Washington in The Preacher's Wife, a remake of the 1947 classic, The Bishop's Wife''. A pic did does'nt launder too when a others, however however brought above $48 million in the U.S. the soundtrack, a Gospel dominated album by owning xiv recently songs from either Houston, sold badly in comparison her former releases. Nevertheless, these are however a better marketing Gospel album of the Hoarding Era by owning sales of other than Three million copies. Them large singles from either a album were a top 5 hit "I Believe in You and Me" & a surprise pop and dance hit "Step by Step".

Cinderella
Around 1997, Houston starred inside & produced the multicultural version of the classic fairy-tale Cinderella featuring Brandy in the title role. Once ''Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella premiered in ABC-TV on November 2 1997, it was watched by over sixty million Americans. A film went in to win an Emmy Award and has become the better marketing streaming video ever of a mass produced-for-TV film.

My Love Is Your Love''
Houstin spent virtually all of the Nineties concentrating on her acting career, however manufactured the surprise link to to the studio for 1998's The Love Is The Love. the album, which was supposed to exist as a greatest hits collection, instead featured baker's dozen freshly tracks from either Houston.

Enlisting a songwriting support of Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott , Diane Warren, and Wyclef Jean, among others, the album was a confident attempt by Houston to reclaim her success of years past. "When You Believe", a duet by having Mariah Carey taken from a alive DreamWorks film The Prince of Egypt, was a transatlantic hit. Nevertheless, Houston's fortunes were revived per U.S. total-both individual, "Heartbreak Hotel". A untypical & protective-hitting "It's Not Right but It's Okay", & a reggae divine title track, each were U.S./U.K. top-5 hit singles. "Heartbreak Hotel", "It's Not Right, but It's Okay", "My Love Is Your Love", & a fifth only from either Our Love is The Love, "I Learned from the Best" tons went in to turn into total-1 dance hits for Whitney, making her one of a club scene's hottest creative person. Houston besides performed at VH1's Divas Live! around 1999, helping to produce it a greatest rated indicate within VH1 history at that instance.

The Greatest Hits
Around 2000, Houston had into pain when she was uncovered by using marijuana at an airport around Hawaii & she skipped retired in a performance at the Oscars (Faith Hill was a previous-microscopic replacement for Houston). Notwithstanding, around 2000, Arista freed, Whitney: A Greatest Hits, the deuce CD compilation of Houston's biggest hits. "Disc One — Cool Down" featured the collection of her ballads also when deuce fresh tracks, "Could I Have This Kiss Forever" (the duet sustaining Enrique Iglesias) and "Same Script, Different Cast" (the duet using Deborah Cox). Two songs received considerable airplay in the U.S. "Disc Two — Throw Down" occurs as collection of her dance songs & remixes. It likewise featured ii newly songs, "Fine" & "If I Told You That" (the duet by using George Michael). Neither song mass produced the splash in the U.S.; yet it were hits internationally.

Greatest Hits has sold concluded eleven million copies worldwide. Around 2001, Houston & Arista Records agreed to re-release her version of a Star Spangled Banner to profit a families of officer & firefighters flushed when you took the tragical cases of September 11, 2001. It sold to a higher degree 300,000 copies, raised to a higher degree 1 million dollars, & earned Houston eventually a second top-ten only when it peaked at dull half a dozen.

Love, Whitney was freed in December 10th 2001 in a UK & was the watch-as much as her multi-platinum 'Greatest Hits' collection. the album has a collection of ballads that keep around turn into Whitney's trademark all over a years. It includes the collection of nine top twenty hits, including 'Saving Tons The Love For Professional people', 'We've Nothing' & naturally a first megahit 'We Might Universally Love Your family'. It has sold 500,000 copies WW.

Just Whitney
Within December 2002, Whitney freed her fifth studio album, Good Whitney. A album reached total nine on The Billboard 200 & benumb deuce-ace on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. A 1st lone, "Whatchulookinat", did ill on The Billboard Hot 100 (simply reaching ninety-six), however it did handle to email seventy-5 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart. A 2nd lone, "One of Those Days", reached seventy-2 on The Hoarding Hot 100 & twenty-nine on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart. Piece "Try It on My Own" just reached eight-4 on The Hoarding Hot 100 & eighty on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart, it did better on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart and the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, where it reached number one and number twenty respectively. Within mid-2003, a remixes of "Love That Man" too managed to email first on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. Altogether, a album unquestionably wasn't 1 of her virtually all successful, however it however went in to sell terminated one million copies in the U.S. & both million copies worldwide.

One Wish
Inside November 2003, Whitney freed her 1st holiday album, 1 Wish. A album reached forty-nine on the Billboard 200, & xiv on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. A album's individual, "One Wish (for Christmas)", didn't chart on the Billboard Hot 100, however it did email twenty on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. A album has sold on top 500,000 copies worldwide.

Controversy and a new beginning
In the season 2000 Houston's public image became tarnished whilst it was revealed that she got been battling spousal abuse sustaining her hubby. In addition she experienced clearly misplaced much of weight & this, coupled using shaky (periodically off) public performances gave way to hearsay of cocaine addiction. Several thought that her vocals sounded strained, & that her voice was worn down.

2001 brought Houston her first major producing assignment: a hit teenaged Disney comedy The Princess Diaries starring Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews, which grossed over $100 million dollars in the pack professional. She too produced deuce more major assignments for Disney: a 2003 TV film The Cheetah Girls, about a visitation of an tons-girl popular class action, starring Raven-Symone, and The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004) grossed over $100 million. Although these efforts were successful, Houston was criticized by her fans for producing "bubble-gum pop-ish" poop.

Within 2002, Houston admitted in the television locate by having Diane Sawyer to abusing cocaine, marijuana, and various more doses. She claimed to keep around stopped utilizing illegal doses, however seemed to become making a admission to location a rumor circulating all about her modus vivendi. When you took a locate, Houston's comment just about getting never utilized crack cocaine because it was "for poor people" induced the recently uproar. Inside March 2004, Houston entered the drug rehab program in California. On top a Spring & Summer of 2004, Houston performed at two or three concerts inside Europe (a Soul Divas Tour by owning Natalie Cole) and her have concert tour within Asia. Around September 2004 she manufactured the surprise appearance at the World Music Awards to sing for Clive Davis. It announced that it would shortly begaround working in the recently album for Houston, to become freed in 2005, in which the duet using Alicia Keys is rumored to be featured. Around March 2005, Houston's chances at the comeback appeared slim after she entered rehab for the 2nd instance. Nevertheless, she finished rehab inside Can 2005. Within an locate using Access Hollywood, Davis announced that he was returning to a studio by owning Houston to finish the album it experienced begun prior to she experienced began rehab. ([http://www.accesshollywood.com/music/4496021/detail.html]) When of a summertime of 2005, the aggregate of Ten tracks own been recorded & the photograph aspire the album folder has been completed. These are predicted that a album might appear around either late-2005 or even early-2006.

Discography

Albums

1985 Whitney Houston #1 (14 weeks) America, #2 UK (sales: 13 million America; Two dozen million worldwide) 1987 Whitney #1 (11 weeks) U.s., #1 UK (sales: 8 million Usa; 19 million worldwide) 1990 ''I'm Your Baby Tonight #3 US, #4 UK (sales: 4 million US; 12 million worldwide) 1992 The Bodyguard OST #1 (20 weeks) U.s., #1 UK (sales: 17 million Usa; 37 million worldwide) 1995 Waiting to Exhale OST #1 (5 weeks) U.s., #8 UK (sales: 7 million United states of america; 10 million worldwide) 1996 The Preacher's Wife OST #3 US, #35 UK (sales: 3 million US; 5 million worldwide) 1998 My Love Is Your Love #13 U.s., #Four UK (sales: 4 million US; 13 million worldwide) 2000 Whitney: The Greatest Hits #5 US, #1 UK (sales: Three million U.s.; 11 million worldwide) 2001 Love, Whitney #22 UK (sales: 500 thousand worldwide) 2002 Just Whitney #9 America, #76 UK (sales: One million US; Two million worldwide) 2003 One Wish: The Holiday Album'' #49 US (sales: 500 thousand worldwide)

Aggregate album sales: 61 million (U.S.), 134 million (worldwide). Sum singles sales: 54 million (worldwide). Amount record sales: 188 million (worldwide).

Singles