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Occupation
- Actress, Singer
Date of Birth
- 9 August 1963
Birth Place
- East Orange, New Jersey, USA |
"I almost wish I could be more exciting, that I could match what is happening
out there to me."
-Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston Biography
With pure pop music melded
to stunning beauty, Whitney Houston's star shines bright whether she is singing
ballads, up-tempo dance material, the national anthem, or cola commercials.
Coming from a solid musical background, this daughter of soul singer Cissy
Houston and cousin of Dionne Warwick debuted in 1985. Her first album, Whitney
Houston, was the first in Billboard chart history by a woman to enter at number
one, and with sales of 14 million copies, was the best-selling debut album of
all time until Alanis Morrisette's Jagged Little Pill. She scored heavily on MTV
with classy videos, helping to break the color barrier originally knocked down
by Michael Jackson. Her second album, Whitney, was just as popular, scoring
seven consecutive number ones in the U.S., shattering the previous record held
by the Beatles.
After the disappointing performance of her third album, I'm Your Baby Tonight,
Houston rocketed back to the top of the charts in late 1992 with the soundtrack
from her first movie, The Bodyguard. The love theme from the movie, a version of
Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You," broke all previous sales and airplay
records, becoming the biggest single in pop music history; it also won her an
almost innumerable amount of awards, including several Grammys. Her work on the
soundtracks to Waiting to Exhale and her second film, The Preacher's Wife, tided
fans over until she returned with a new album of her own, My Love Is Your Love,
in 1998. More.. |
