Whitney Elizabeth Houston was an American singer and actress. She is the only artist to have seven consecutive number-one singles on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. Her music influenced several African-American female artists, including Gladys Knight, Roberta Flack, Chaka Khan, and Cissy Cissy Houston. Houston was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2020.
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Whitney Elizabeth Houston was an American singer and actress. She was certified as the most awarded female artist of all time by Guinness World Records. Houston released seven studio albums and two soundtrack albums, all of which have been certified diamond, multi-platinum, platinum, or gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. She is the only artist to have seven consecutive number-one singles on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. On February 11, 2012, Houston was found dead at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California. The coroner’s report showed that she had accidentally drowned in the bathtub, with heart disease and cocaine use as contributing factors. Houston was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2020. Her music influenced several African-American female artists, including Gladys Knight, Roberta Flack, Chaka Khan, and Cissy Cissy Houston. She made her acting debut with the romantic thriller film The Bodyguard. She recorded six songs for the film’s soundtrack, including \”I Will Always Love You\”, which won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and became the best-selling physical single by a female in music history. Houston starred and recorded soundtracks for two other high-profile films, Waiting to Exhale and The Preacher’s Wife. Her personal struggles began overshadowing her career, and the album Just Whitney received mixed reviews. Her drug use and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown received widespread media coverage.
After a six-year break from recording, Houston returned to the top of the Billboard 200 chart with her final studio album, I Look to You. She died of a heart attack at the age of 48 in February 2012, aged 48. Her death coincided with the 2012 Grammy Awards and was featured prominently in international media, with news of her death featured prominently on CNN, ABC, and other networks. Her parents were both African-Americans and she was a first cousin of singers Dionne Warwick and Dee Dee Warwick. Her godmother was Darlene Love and her honorary aunt was Aretha Franklin, whom she met at age eight or nine when her mother took her to a recording studio. Her elder brother Michael is a singer, and her elder half-brother is former basketball player Gary Garland. At age 11, Houston started performing as a soloist in the junior gospel choir at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, where she also learned to play the piano. In 1977, at age 14, she became a backup singer on the Michael Zager Band’s single “Life’s a Party” She was a member of the group The Sweet Inspirations which also opened and sang backup for Elvis Presley. While in school, she spent some of her teens touring nightclubs where she would get onstage with her teens and perform onstage with Chaka Chaka. In 1978, at 15, she sang background vocals for Chaka and Lou Rawls’ single “Rawls’ Rawls” She became a singer and performer on the band’s tour of the U.S.
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