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Whitney Houston
Name: Whitney Elizabeth Houston
Born: August 9, 1963 in Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
Parents : Cissy Houston, John Russell Houston
Husband: Bobby Brown
Son: Bobbi KristinaOccupations: Singer, actress, and model
Biography:
At the age of 11, Houston began to follow in her mother's footsteps and started performing as a soloist in the junior gospel choir at the New Hope BaptistChurch in Newark, where she also learned to play the piano.[20] Her first solo performance in the church was "Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah".[21] When Houston was a teenager, she attended Mount SaintDominic Academy, a Catholic girls' high school in Caldwell, New Jersey, where she met her best friend Robyn Crawford, whom she described as the "sister she never had".[22] While Houston was still inschool, her mother continued to teach her how to sing.[5] In addition to her mother, Franklin, and Warwick, Houston was also exposed to the music of Chaka Khan, Gladys Knight, and Roberta Flack, mostof whom would have an impact on her as a singer and performer.
Houston spent some of her teenage years touring nightclubs where her mother Cissy was performing, and she would occasionally get on stageand perform with her. In 1977, at age 14, she became a backup singer on the Michael Zager Band's single "Life's a Party". In 1978, at age 15, Houston sang background vocals on Chaka Khan's hit single"I'm Every Woman", a song she would later turn into a larger hit for herself on her monster-selling The Bodyguard soundtrack album. She also sang back-up on albums by Lou Rawls and Jermaine Jackson.In the early 1980s, Houston started working as a fashion model after a photographer saw her at Carnegie Hall singing with her mother. She appeared in Seventeen[27] and became one of the first womenof color to grace the cover of the magazine.[28] She was also featured in layouts in the pages of Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Young Miss, and appeared in a Canada Dry soft drink TV commercial.
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