Today We Have A Special Memories
To
To
*** Whitney Houston ***
But First We Start With One Very Special Album
Of Her Mother "Cissy Houston"
And "Whitney Houston".
Cissy & Whitney Houston - Cissy & Whitney Houston (1978)
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*** Whitney Houston ***
Whitney Houston was an American singer and actress whose first four albums, released between 1985 and 1992, amassed global sales in excess of 86 million copies.
Synopsis
Born on August 9, 1963, in Newark, New Jersey, Whitney Houston released her debut album at age 22 and scored three number one singles. Whitney (1987) delivered four more number ones and earned Houston her first Grammy. With her marriage to singer Bobby Brown in 1992, Houston's career got off track. She made a comeback with 2009's I Look to You. Houston died on February 11, 2012.
Early Years
Born August 9, 1963 in Newark, New Jersey,
Whitney Houston almost seemed destined from birth to become a singer.
Her mother Cissy Houston, cousin Dionne Warwick and godmother Aretha
Franklin were all legendary figures in American gospel and soul music.
Cissy Houston was the choir minister at New Hope Baptist Church, and it
was there that a young Whitney got her start. Even as a child, Whitney
was able to wow audiences; she later told interviewer Diane Sawyer that a
rapturous response from the congregation at New Hope had a powerful
effect upon her: "I think I knew then that [my singing ability] was an
infectious thing that God had given me."
By the time she turned 15, Whitney was performing often with her
mother and trying to get a record deal of her own. Around the same time,
she was discovered by a photographer who was awed by her natural
beauty. She soon became an extremely sought-after teenage model, one of
the first African American women to appear on the cover of Seventeen magazine. But music remained her true love.
When
she was 19, Whitney Houston was discovered in a nightclub by the
renowned Clive Davis of Arista Records, who signed her immediately and
took the helm of her career as she navigated from gospel to pop stardom.
In 1983, Houston made her debut on national television, appearing on
The Merv Griffin Show to sing "Home" from the musical The Wiz.
She and Davis spent the next two years working on her debut album,
finding the best producers and songwriters available to showcase her
amazing vocal talent.
August 9, 1963
Whitney was born in Newark, New Jersey. She was the youngest child
of three born to entertainment executive, John Russell Houston, Jr., and
gospel singer, Cissy Houston.
1965
Whitney, pictured here at 3 years old, grew up in a middle class New Jersey neighborhood.
Late 1960s
With parents rooted in the music industry, it is not surprising that Whitney chose this path as well.
Early 1970s
Along
with Whitney's mother, cousins Dionne and Dee Dee Warwick and godmother
Aretha Franklin were also influences in Whitney's life. At age 11 she
began performing as a soloist in the church choir.
Late 1970s
A teenage Whitney is pictured here ready for her high school prom. She attended Mount Saint Dominic Academy, a Catholic school for girls in Caldwell, New Jersey.
1983
A
representative from Arista Records was impressed by Whitney's talent
after watching her perform with her mother in a New York City nightclub.
He convinced Arista's head, Clive Davis, to check out her act. Davis,
pictured with Whitney above, was impressed and signed her to a worldwide
recording contract later that year.
1983
Whitney's natural beauty graced the cover of several magazines including Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, and Glamour. She was one of the first African-Americans to ever appear on the cover of Seventeen.
1985
Whitney's debut album, Whitney Houston, was released in February 1985. "Saving All My Love for You" was Whitney's first number one single.
Whitney Houston - Saving All My Love For You (Single) (1985)
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Pop Stardom
In 1985, she released her debut album Whitney Houston and almost immediately became a smash pop sensation. Over the next year, her hit singles "Saving All My Love for You" and "How Will I Know" helped the album reach the top of the charts, where it stayed for fourteen non-consecutive weeks. Houston won a Grammy in 1986 for "Saving All My Love for You"; the award was presented to the singer by her cousin Dionne Warwick. Houston followed the monumental success of her first album with a second release, Whitney, in 1987. That record, too, went platinum many times over and won more Grammy Awards, leading to a successful world tour. During this time, the singer also appeared at a concert for Nelson Mandela's birthday and founded the Whitney Houston Foundation for Children, a nonprofit organization that funds projects to help needy children over the world.
1986
Whitney
was nominated for three Grammys in 1986 and won "Best Pop Vocal
Performance." Her performance that night of "Saving All My Love for You"
later won her an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Individual Performance in a
Variety or Music Program."
Whitney Houston - How Will I Know (Single) (1986)
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1987
Whitney,
the singer's second album, was released in 1987 and went 9x platinum,
selling over 20 million copies worldwide. Whitney is pictured here with
her mother, Cissy Houston.
Mother Cissy and Daughter Whitney
Whitney Houston - I Know Him So Well Him So Well (Single) (1987)
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1988
By 1988, Whitney was one of the top 20 highest earning entertainers, according to Forbes magazine.
Michael and Whitney
Michael Jackson
(August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009)
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(August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009)
R.I.P...We Will Never Forget You!!!
And 1988 performance Whitney "One Moment In Time", the song was a Worldwide Hit.
"One Moment in Time" is a worldwide hit Emmy Award winning song written by Albert Hammond and John Bettis, produced by Narada Michael Walden and recorded by American singer Whitney Houston for the 1988 Summer Olympics and the 1988 Summer Paralympics held in Seoul, South Korea. The song was Houston's third number one in the UK Singles Chart, and reached number five on the US Billboard Hot 100.
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1990
Whitney met future husband and R&B singer, Bobby Brown, at the 1989 Soul Train Music Awards.
Bobby Brown and Whitney
By 1992, Whitney Houston was on top of the world, but her life was
about to get very complicated very quickly. That year she married the
R&B singer Bobby Brown, formerly of New Edition, after a three-year
engagement. At first the marriage was passionate and loving, but things
turned sour as the decade progressed and both Brown and Houston battled
substance abuse and increasingly erratic behavior.
Bobby Brown and Whitney
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Bobby Brown and Whitney
In spite of
these growing personal troubles, Whitney Houston continued to progress
in her career, crossing over successfully into acting in 1992 by
starring opposite Kevin Costner in the wildly popular The Bodyguard.
With this movie, she set a trend for her films to follow: in each film
she also released a hit single, creating sensational record sales for
the soundtracks. Her smash single from The Bodyguard, a cover
of Dolly Parton's 1974 "I Will Always Love You," proved to be Houston's
biggest hit ever, spending a record-breaking fourteen weeks atop the
U.S. charts. The soundtrack album went on to win Houston three Grammys,
including Album of the Year and Record of the Year.
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1992
Whitney made her film debut alongside Kevin Costner in The Bodyguard.
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Later in the 1990s, Houston also starred in The Preacher's Wife and Waiting to Exhale, both accompanied by hit soundtracks as well.
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1993
In 1993 she gave birth to her first and only child, a daughter she named Bobbi Kristina Houston Brown.
1995
Whitney appeared in yet another film, Waiting to Exhale,
released in 1995. She also produced the film's soundtrack with
Babyface. Whitney is pictured here with Tupac Shakur at the soundtrack
release party in L.A.
Whitney and Tupac Shakur
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Troubled Times
In 1998, Houston released My Love Is Your Love,
her first non-soundtrack studio album in many years, and it earned her
another Grammy but could not top the chart performance of her previous
albums. However, her collaboration with Mariah Carey in the animated
film The Prince of Egypt produced a single, "When You Believe," which
won an Academy Award.
Whitney Houston - My Love Is Your Love (1998)
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1998
Whitney and Mariah at the MTV Video Music Awards. The pair won an award for their duet, "When You Believe."
Whitney and Mariah
Whitney Houston - When You Believe
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1999
Whitney at the European MTV Video Music Awards, where she won for Best R&B.
2000
Just
released from jail, Bobby Brown greets Whitney after spending over two
months in jail for repeatedly violating his parole. Rumors of drug use
by the couple began to swirl later in the year.
Bobby Brown and Whitney
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Houston's increasingly rocky marriage, struggles with drugs and health problems threatened to derail her career. Several concert cancellations and a notorious TV interview with Diane Sawyer in 2002 in which Houston appeared far too thin and in very poor health led many to speculate that she was on the verge of a breakdown.
TV interview with Diane Sawyer in 2002
2004
Controversy
surrounded Whitney in the early 2000s with reports that she was
repeatedly late and cancelled interviews and performances. Houston
admitted to using cocaine in an interview with Diana Sawyer in 2002.
A reality show about her husband airing in 2004, Being Bobby Brown, gave the world a glimpse into the couple's somewhat disturbing day to day.
A reality show about her husband airing in 2004, Being Bobby Brown, gave the world a glimpse into the couple's somewhat disturbing day to day.
In 2004, Bobby Brown began filming a reality show for Bravo entitled Being Bobby Brown; Houston received substantial airtime. The show aired during the worst years of the couple's crumbling marriage; drug use, lifestyle excess and bad behavior were all caught on tape and Houston's reputation sunk to new lows. Houston tried to ignore the controversy, charging ahead with her music by releasing Just Whitney… to combat her detractors, but it did not match the success of her earlier works. In spite of her troubled relationship, Houston was still celebrated as a singer, being named the most-awarded female artist of all time by Guiness World Records in 2006.
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2007
In 2007, Bobby and Whitney were divorced. Whitney was awarded custody of their daughter, Bobbi.
2009
In
her first television interview in seven years, Whitney admitted to
Oprah Winfrey that she used drugs with former husband, Bobby Brown,
daily, but claimed that she was now clean. The world waited for the pop
star's comeback.
Over the next few years, Houston attempted to repair her marriage and to break her drug habit, but after several relapses her mother, Cissy, had to step in. As Whitney Houston explained to Oprah Winfrey in 2009: "[My mother] walks in with the sheriff and she says: 'I have a court injunction here. You do it my way or we're not going to do this at all. You're going to go on TV, and you're going to retire. And say you're going to give this up because it's not worth it.'" Whitney took a break from her career, divorced Bobby Brown in 2007, and won sole custody of their child, Bobbi Kristina Houston Brown.
Oprah Winfrey and Whitney
After almost a decade of struggling with her personal life, Houston seemed to be pulling herself together. She released a new album, I Look To You, in 2009. "The songs themselves will speak to you and you'll understand where I am and some of the changes I've gone through for the better," Houston told Entertainment Tonight. The recording received a warm welcome from music fans, making to the top of album charts. Her live shows, however, garnered mixed reviews with some complaining about the quality of her voice.
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2010
Whitney's
first world tour in over a decade, the Nothing But Love World Tour,
received negative reviews from critics who were disappointed in the
quality of her performance and the sound of her voice.
2011
In
September 2011, Houston announced that she would produce as well as
star alongside Jordin Sparks in a remake of the 1976 film, Sparkle.
Death and Legacy
In
early 2012, Houston rumored to be
experiencing financial trouble, but she denied this claim. She, in fact,
seemed to be poised for a career upswing. Houston worked on a new
musical film Sparkle with Jordin Sparks, a remake of the 1976
movie about an all-girl musical group similar to the Supremes. She had
reportedly been approached to join the singing competition The X Factor
as a judge. Unfortunately, Houston did not live long enough to see the
latest comeback reach fruition.
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Whitney
Houston died on February 11, 2012, in Los Angeles. Houston had been
seen out in the days before her death, including at one of the
pre-Grammy Award parties. According to a report released by the Los
Angeles County coroner's office on March 22, 2012, the official cause of
her death was accidental drowning. The effects of heart disease and
cocaine found in her system were contributing factors. With her passing,
the music world has lost one of its most legendary stars. Her longtime
supporter and mentor Clive Davis once said that Houston "is in the great
tradition of great, great singers, whether it's Lena Horne or Ella
Fitzgerald or Sarah Vaughn or Gladys Knight."
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Whitney Elizabeth Houston
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