Whitney Houston was an American singer, actress and producer who was considered the best-selling musical artist of all time during her lifetime. The passionate artist was voted gold by the Guinness World Records as the female nude of all time. She broke one of the greatest records of all time when her second studio album, which she named after herself, Whitney (1987) became the first album by a woman to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart.
Houston has been an inspiration to so many African American women who have followed in her footsteps. As an actress, Whitney Houston starred, Rachel Marron in The Bodyguard (1992); a film in which she performed the lead single from the original soundtrack, I’ll Always Love You. The single won the 1994 Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Houston also became the first act to sell more than a million copies of an album in a week.
The singer was also the producer of the film The Princess Diaries (2001) as well as in other films like Waiting for the Exhale (1995), Twinkle (2012), The Preacher’s Wife (1996), etc.
Whitney Houston’s Biography
Whitney Elizabeth Houston was born on August 9,1963 in Newark, New Jersey, the only daughter of John Russell Houston, Jr. and Emily “Cissy” (Drinkard) Houston, both of whom are into entertainment; Her father was a soldier and entertainer and her mother is a gospel singer.
Houston learned to play the piano as a child and by the age of 11 was playing solo in the junior gospel choir at her church, New Hope Baptist Church in Newark. She graduated from Mount Saint Dominic Academy in Caldwell; In 1981 she was an all-girls Catholic school in New Jersey, and throughout that time she has never strayed from music. Her mother continued to teach her singing, and her exposure to the music of Gladys Knight, Roberta Flack and Chaka Khan influenced her journey as an artist.
career
By the time Whitney Houston was 14, she was singing backups and background vocals on stage, and spent some of her teenage years touring nightclubs with her mother. After graduating high school, Houston began working as a teenage model when a photographer discovered her photogenic charms at Carnegie Hall, where she was singing with her mother. While gracing magazine covers and appearing in television commercials in the 1980s, the young Houston continued to work for record producers. She was signed to Arista Records (currently known as Sony Records) but did not immediately begin her album. She recorded a duet, Hold Me Tightwith popular singer Teddy Pendergrass and it was the beginning of Houston’s success in the music industry when the single became a Top 5 R&B hit in 1984.
The massive success was established by the release of their debut album, Whitney Houston, released in 1985. The album contained several songs and the final single, Greatest Love Of Them All 1977 recording by George Benson became a biggest hit and reached #1 on the charts.
A year after its release, Whitney Houston ‘s album became an international success, being certified 13× platinum (diamond) in the US alone and selling 30 million copies worldwide. The mezzo-soprano’s subsequent albums were an endless success, crowned with a total of 415 career awards from 2010 onwards.
Alongside Michael Jackson, Houston has broken every record imaginable. Dubbed The Voice for her unmatched singing talent, Houston holds the record for most AMAs ever won in an 8-win year in 1994. made history at its 4th show in 1993 with 11 Billboard Music Awards; and received five awards at the 1994 6th World Music Awards.
Whitney Houston’s other awards and accomplishments have included a BET Lifetime Achievement Award; She was the first female artist to receive it and was voted the fourth best female artist in the US with 55 million certified albums sold.
Whitney Houston’s cause of death
Houston died in Beverly Hills California on 11. February 2012. She was staying in Suite 434 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, where she was found submerged in a bathtub. Despite the efforts of the hotel’s paramedics, the great singer was pronounced dead at 3:55 p.m.
The cause of death is reported by the Los Angeles County Coroner drowning due to heart disease and cocaine use. It was stated that some other drugs were also discovered and her death was just an accident. She was buried on February 19, 2012 at Fairview Cemetery in Westfield, New Jersey. alongside her father, John Russell Houston, who died in 2003.
your fortune
Houston was a cult musician and along with her talent, achievements and influences, she had several millions stowed away in the bank. Her net worth at the time of her death in 2012 was $20 million. She had reportedly landed a $100 million record deal with Arista/Sony, from which she only made $40 million, earning about $30 million annually from touring alone.
In 2007, amid her divorce from husband BobbyBrown, Houston linked her assets to $10 million and more than $4 million in debt. A few months after her death, her estate brought in an estimated $40 million. earns primarily from the sales of her records and singles, as well as the release of the film, Twinkle. After paying off all of her debts, Houston’s daughter, Bobbi Kristina, had to inherit up to $20 million and more millions of dollars in real estate.
daughter
Bobbi Kristina Brown was the only daughterWhitney Houston and Bobby Brown had together. Like her parents, she was a singer and media personality. After Houston and Brown divorced in 2007, Whitney Houston took sole custody of their daughter, who would have been her sole heir. But barely three years after Houston’s death, 22-year-old Brown was found facedown in a bathtub at her home in Alpharetta on Jan. 31, 2015, by her boyfriend Nick Gordon and a friend who was trying to resuscitate her. Paramedics arrived at the scene .
An autopsy revealed that marijuana, alcohol, morphine and cocaine, and drugs used to calm and treat anxiety were found in her body. Six months after entering a coma in which doctors said her chances of recovery were miraculous, young Brown died on July 26, 2015 and was buried next to her mother two days later.
