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Whitney Houston Biography

(1963–)

Related Works

Albums
1985 Whitney Houston
1987 Whitney

1990 I'm Your Baby Tonight
1999 My Love is Your Love
2003 One Wish - The Holiday Album
Singles
1985 You Give Good Love
1985 Saving All My Love for You
1986 How Will I know
1986 The Greatest Love of All
1987 I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)
1987 Didn't We Almost Have It All
1988 So Emotional
1988 Where Do Broken Hearts Go
1988 Love Will Save The Day
1988 One Moment In Time
1990 I'm Your Baby Tonight
1991 All The Man That I Need
1991 Miracle
1992 I Will Always Love You
1993 I'm Every Woman
1993 I Have Nothing
1999 When You Believe (with Mariah Carey)
Films
1992 The Bodyguard
1995 Waiting to Exhale
1996 The Preacher's Wife

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Related People

Related Sites

The Whitney Houston Foundation for Children Web site

(born August 9, 1963, Newark, New Jersey, U.S.) American singer and actress whose first four albums, released between 1985 and 1992, amassed global sales in excess of 86 million copies.

The daughter of Emily (“Cissy”) Houston—whose vocal group, the Sweet Inspirations, sang backup for Aretha Franklin—and the cousin of singer Dionne Warwick, Whitney Houston began singing in church as a child. While still in high school, she sang backup for Chaka Khan and Lou Rawls and modeled for fashion magazines. At age 19 she signed with Arista Records, whose president, Clive Davis, groomed the gospel-based singer for crossover pop success. Her debut album, Whitney Houston (1985), yielded three number one singles: “Greatest Love of All,” which became her signature; “Saving All My Love for You”; and “How Will I Know.” Whitney (1987) delivered four more number ones. In 1992 she married singer Bobby Brown (divorced 2007) and made her motion-picture debut in The Bodyguard; the film featured her rendition of Dolly Parton's “I Will Always Love You,” which stayed at number one for 14 weeks. In the mid-1990s she continued acting in films such as Waiting to Exhale (1995) and The Preacher's Wife (1996), and the soundtrack of each film generated hit singles for her. In 1998 Houston released My Love Is Your Love, which did not sell as well as previous efforts but was praised by the critics. In 2000 she signed a new multi-album contract with Arista for $100 million.