Whitney Houston
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Whitney Houston`s Biography
Date of Birth
9 August 1963, Newyark, New Jersey USA
Date of Death
11 Febuary 2012, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Name
Whitney ElizabethHouston
Nickname
Nippy
The Prom Queen of Soul
Whitney Elizabeth Houston was born into a musical family on 9 August 1963, in Newark, New Jersey, the daughter of gospel star Cissy Houston
,cousin of singing star Dionne Warwick
and goddaughter of soul legend Aretha Franklin
. She began singing in the choir at her church, The New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, as a young child andby the age of 15 was singing backing vocals professionally with her mother on Chaca Kahn's 1978 hit, 'I'm Every Woman'. She went on to provide backing vocals for Lou Rawls, Jermaine Jackson and her ownmother and worked briefly as a model, appearing on the cover of 'Seventeen' magazine in 1981. She began working as a featured vocalist for the New York-based funk band Material and it was thequality of her vocal work with them that attracted the attention of the major record labels, including Arista with whom she signed in 1983 and where she stayed for the rest of her career. Her debut album,'Whitney Houston', was released in 1985 and became the biggest-selling album by a debut artist. Several hit singles, including 'Saving All My Love For You', 'How Will I Know', 'You Give Good Love',and 'The Greatest Love of All', were released from the album, setting her up for a Beatles-beating seven consecutive US number ones. The album itself sold 3 million copies in its first year in the USand went on to sell 25 million worldwide, winning her the first of her six Grammies. The 1987 follow-up album, 'Whitney', which included the hits 'Where Do Broken Hearts Go' and 'I Wanna Dance WithSomebody', built on her success but it was the 1992 film El Guardespaldas(1992) that sealed her place as one of the best-selling artists of all time. While the movie itself and her performance in it...
Date of Birth
9 August 1963, Newyark, New Jersey USA
Date of Death
11 Febuary 2012, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Name
Whitney ElizabethHouston
Nickname
Nippy
The Prom Queen of Soul
Whitney Elizabeth Houston was born into a musical family on 9 August 1963, in Newark, New Jersey, the daughter of gospel star Cissy Houston
,cousin of singing star Dionne Warwick
and goddaughter of soul legend Aretha Franklin
. She began singing in the choir at her church, The New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, as a young child andby the age of 15 was singing backing vocals professionally with her mother on Chaca Kahn's 1978 hit, 'I'm Every Woman'. She went on to provide backing vocals for Lou Rawls, Jermaine Jackson and her ownmother and worked briefly as a model, appearing on the cover of 'Seventeen' magazine in 1981. She began working as a featured vocalist for the New York-based funk band Material and it was thequality of her vocal work with them that attracted the attention of the major record labels, including Arista with whom she signed in 1983 and where she stayed for the rest of her career. Her debut album,'Whitney Houston', was released in 1985 and became the biggest-selling album by a debut artist. Several hit singles, including 'Saving All My Love For You', 'How Will I Know', 'You Give Good Love',and 'The Greatest Love of All', were released from the album, setting her up for a Beatles-beating seven consecutive US number ones. The album itself sold 3 million copies in its first year in the USand went on to sell 25 million worldwide, winning her the first of her six Grammies. The 1987 follow-up album, 'Whitney', which included the hits 'Where Do Broken Hearts Go' and 'I Wanna Dance WithSomebody', built on her success but it was the 1992 film El Guardespaldas(1992) that sealed her place as one of the best-selling artists of all time. While the movie itself and her performance in it...
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