1 / 39 photos Whitney Houston Photo Gallery

Early performance by Whitney Houston.

Stevie Wonder and Houston attending the 13th Annual American Music Awards on January 27, 1986.

Houston wins Best Pop Vocal Performance at the 28th Annual Grammy Awards on February 25, 1986 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.

Posing with a map of Holland while in Rotterdam, 21st October 1986.

With mother Cissy Houston in 1986.

Houston holds her award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 30th Annual Grammy Awards March 2, 1987 in New York City.

With fellow icons Yoko Ono, Elizabeth Taylor, Liza Minnelli and Michael Jackson.

With Bobby Brown in 1989.

Earvin Magic Johnson, Houston and Jesse Jackson attend the Sammy Davis, Jr. 60th Anniversary Celebration Television Special on November 13, 1989 at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.

A pregnant Houston with Santa Claus in 1992.

Whitney with legendary music producer and executive, and friend, Clive Davis.

Whitney Houston sings the National Anthem before Super Bowl XXV between the New York Giants and Buffalo Bills at Tampa Stadium on January 27, 1991 in Tampa, Florida.

Houston with Alec Baldwin on Saturday Night Live, February 1991.

Performing in 1991.

Arriving with father John Houston at Los Angeles International Airport October 9, 1991.

Whitney Houston in Kevin Costner's arms on the poster for the French release of the 1992 film, 'The Bodyguard' which garnered two Academy Awards nominations for Best Music, Original Song ("I Have Nothing" and "Run to You").

With Bobby Brown in 1992.

Whitney Houston,  Bobby Brown and daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown arrive from Los Angeles on June 9, 1993 at JFK Airport in New York City.

Houston winning Record of the Year at the 36th Annual Grammy Awards in 1994.

Houston stars with Angela Bassett in the film 'Waiting to Exhale', 1995.

With Denzel Washington in 'The Preacher's Wife', 1996.

Brown and Houston in New Jersy attend the renaming ceremony of the Franklin School the 12th of June, 1997, which would become the Whitney E. Houston Academy of Creative Performing Arts.

Brown and Houston with daughter Bobbi Kristina at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills in October 1998.

Performing 'When You Believe' with Mariah Carey during the 71st Academy Awards 21 March 1999.

At the Arista 25th Anniversary Celebration After Party with Sean 'Puffy' Combs, Clive Davis, and Bobby Brown, April 2000.

Houston and Brown together again after Bobby's release from jail on July 7, 2000 at the Fort Lauderdale Jail in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

With Elton John at his Ninth Annual Oscar Party to benefit the Elton John Aids Foundation at the Moomba in Los Angeles, March 25, 2001.

November, 2002, Houston and husband Bobby Brown leave DeKalb County State Courthouse in Atlanta after a judge refused to dismiss a 6 year-old traffic charge against Brown stemming from a DUI. He was arrested in Atlanta earlier that month on charges of possessing less than an ounce of marijuana, speeding and having no driver's license or proof of insurance.

Houston and Brown at the VH1 Divas Duets: A Concert to Benefit the VH1 Save the Music Foundation after party at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas in 2003.

The couple with Bobbi Kristina in 2003.

Houston, Brown and Bobbi Kristina watch the premiere of the show 'Being Bobby Brown' on June 27, 2005 in Atlanta, Georgia.

With Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler at the Stevie Wonder Celebrates His 57th Birthday at the Grand Opening of The Cove Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island, Bahamas, 2007.

Arriving with Bobbi Kristina at the Clive Davis And The Recording Academy's 2011 Pre-GRAMMY Gala at The Beverly Hilton hotel on February 12, 2011 in Beverly Hills, California.

Alicia Keys, Jennifer Hudson and Whitney Houston attend at Keep A Child Alive's 7th annual Black Ball at Hammerstein Ballroom on September 30, 2010 in New York City.

Jennifer Hudson performs in memory of Houston at the Staples Center during the 54th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California, February 12, 2012

The Apollo Theatre in Manhattan, February 11, 2012 in New York City.

Whitney Houston, August 9, 1963 - February 11, 2012