Whitney Houston is a Grammy Award winning Singer and Actress.
Her early career found her working as a backup singer and model. She sang backup for acts such as Chaka Khan, Lou Rawls, and Jermaine Jackson.
As a Model, she appeared in Glamour, Cosmopolitan, and was the first African-American to be on the cover of Seventeen.
Her debut album “Whitney Houston” was released in early 1985.
I remember buying that first album and thinking that this woman had one amazingly powerful voice!
She quickly became one of the most popular female recording artists of the 80′s.
She was the first African-American Female singer to recieve heavy airplay on MTV.
Whitney Houston has won 6 Grammy Awards during her career.
Her hits have included:
You Give Good Love
Saving all my Love for You
Greatest Love of All
How Will I know?
I Wanna Dance with Somebody
Didn’t we Almost have it All
So Emotional
Where do Broken Hearts Go?
Love will save the Day
One Moment in Time
I’m your Baby Tonight
All the Man that I need
Miracle
My Name is not Susan
I Will Alway’s Love you
I’m Every Woman
I Have Nothing
Run to You
Exhale
Count on Me
I Believe in You and Me
Why does it hurt so bad?
Step by Step
When you Believe
Heartbreak Hotel
My Love is your Love
I learned from the Best
Eleven of her singles have hit #1 on the Billboard Top-40 Charts.
At one point, from 1985-1988, she had SEVEN consecutive singles reach #1 on the Billboard Charts.
As an Actress, her credits include “The Bodyguard“, “The Preacher’s Wife” and “Waiting to Exhale“.
From 1992-2007 she was married to singer Bobby Brown.
The lady has battled many personal issues over the years, but she will always be remembered for having one of the greatest voices in music history.
Whitney Houston is now 48 years old and is still active in the music industry. She is currently reviving her acting career and is planning to star in a film called “Sparkle” co-starring American Idol star Jordin Sparks. She will also produce the film.
** Whitney Houston passed away on Feb 11th, 2012 at the age of 48. ****
She has one of the most astounding vocal ranges I have ever heard, and I have even heard some of the great opera divas. Just amazing!
By: John Erickson on October 16, 2011
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I’d say she screwed up by getting with Bobby Brown, but she did used to be a great voice.
By: BrainRants on October 16, 2011
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I will always love Whitney..
By: Kemi on October 17, 2011
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A talented singer, indeed!
By: nrhatch on October 17, 2011
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Until I was in middle school (when Whitney became popular), Other kids would often tease me about my name. That stopped. HOWEVER, it started a new phase of, “Your name’s Whitney? Like in, Houston? Soooo….. Can you sing?” Aaaarrgghhh……
By: Blonde Cousin on October 17, 2011
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Blonde Cousin – Now, I see that your name has even got it’s own sitcom on NBC! Good for you!
By: TheIdiotSpeaketh on October 17, 2011
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Am so sorry for her personal problems but she’s top dollar and you can’t take that away from her. Unless she loses her talent for bad choices.
By: Carl D'Agostino on October 17, 2011
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Carl – Yep, it’s sad to think of just how much bigger she would have been, without all the drama in her personal life. I kind of agree with brainrants…..seems things went downhill fast for her when she hooked up with Bobby Brown.
By: TheIdiotSpeaketh on October 17, 2011
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Yes….. I’ve (I mean the name, Whitney) definitely come a long way from being a man’s name.
By: Blonde Cousin on October 17, 2011
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I loved her early recordings..now not so much…I guess experience changed the purity in her voice…
By: Bridgesburning Chris King on October 18, 2011
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Dear Mr. The Idiotspeakth,
Im working on a piece about whitney that will air tonight on TV and I was wondering where you got these images of Whitney? Especially the first one.
Please email me.
Thank you,
Gabriela
By: Gabriela on February 12, 2012
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