She told Newsday that she learned from Houston the "difference between being able to sing and knowing how to sing". "[295] Dolly Parton, whose song "I Will Always Love You" was covered by Houston, said, "I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, 'Whitney, I will always love you. [156] The reviews were mainly positive for the ensemble cast. It also marked the first man landed on the moon. I'm not ashamed of it. 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. [372], In May 2003, Houston placed at number three on VH1's list of "50 Greatest Women of the Video Era", behind Madonna and Janet Jackson. "Destiny's real child, Jennifer Hudson looks headed for stardom, and maybe an Oscar, with 'Dreamgirls'". [169] She won Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist at the 1997 American Music Awards for The Preacher's Wife soundtrack. While attending Catholic school, she took voice lessons from her mother, with whom she would occasionally perform in nightclubs. The album debuted at number thirteen, its peak position, on the Billboard 200 chart. Houston was No. [4][5] Her parents were both African-American. Bennett sang "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?" The advanced search feature allows you to filter famous people by any planet, aspect, or gender! Happy Birthday Whitney - #alwaysinourhearts. She is the only artist to have seven consecutive number-one singles on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, from "Saving All My Love for You" in 1985 to "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" in 1988. [174] The movie received seven Emmy nominations including Outstanding Variety, Musical or Comedy, while winning Outstanding Art Direction in a Variety, Musical or Comedy Special. [ ... ] She was a phenomenon waiting to happen, a canny tapping of the listener's yen for a return to the musical middle. "[296] Others paying tribute included Mariah Carey, Quincy Jones and Oprah Winfrey.[297][298]. Her rendition of ‘I Will Always Love You’ is the best-selling single by any female singer and the album sold over 200 million copies worldwide. The special raised over $300,000 for the Children's Defense Fund. [249], Despite this reception, "Million Dollar Bill" jumped to its peak from 14 to number 5 (her first UK top 5 for over a decade). Chinese Zodiac: Whitney Houston was born in the Year of the Rat. Quotes By Whitney Houston Died Young. The aspects describe the geometric angles between the planets. Through the late 1980s, hits rocketed to the top of billboard charts. The song was featured on the Sparkle: Music from the Motion Picture soundtrack as the first official single. 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[255], In January 2010, Houston was nominated for two NAACP Image Awards, one for Best Female Artist and one for Best Music Video. [393], On April 27, 2016, it was announced that Kevin Macdonald would work with the film production team Altitude, producers of the Amy Winehouse documentary film Amy (2015), on a new documentary film based on Houston's life and death. [223], Also in 2002, Houston did an interview with Diane Sawyer to promote her then-upcoming album. Whitney! You have 4 free articles remaining this month, Sign-up to our daily newsletter for more articles like this + access to 5 extra articles. [219] The song peaked at No. 15, Whitney Houston to Take the Stage at the AMAs, Pop Music Review: Houston Tops Off Record Night With Show's Highlight, The Greatest " Ep. Also Known As: Whitney Elizabeth Houston. [244] (In her 2013 book, Remembering Whitney: My Story of Love, Loss, and the Night the Music Stopped, Cissy Houston described the scene she encountered at Whitney Houston's house in 2005 as follows: "Somebody had spray-painted the walls and door with big glaring eyes and strange faces. Jackson and Madonna built worldviews around their voices; Ms. Houston's voice was the worldview. [ ... ] Hers was a voice of triumph and achievement, and it made for any number of stunning, time-stopping vocal performances. [87][88][89][90] Dan Klores, a spokesman for Houston, said: "This is not a Milli Vanilli thing. [127] During Christmas week of 1992, the soundtrack sold over a million copies within a week, becoming the first album to achieve that feat under Nielsen SoundScan system. [227][228], In late 2003, Houston released her first Christmas album One Wish: The Holiday Album, with a collection of traditional holiday songs. Manually set DST if you believe it is not applied correctly. 1 album of the year on the 1986 Billboard year-end charts, making her the first woman to earn that distinction. Her godmother was Darlene Love[6] and her honorary aunt was Aretha Franklin,[7][8] whom she met at age eight or nine when her mother took her to a recording studio. In 1977, she was a backup singer for Michael Zager Band’s single ‘Life’s a Party’ and the following year she sang on Chaka Khan’s single ‘I’m Every Woman’. Held by someone, meant something to someone, u loved somebody touched somebody's heart along the way, you can look back and say, you were loved," Hudson wrote. [134] The album became the best-selling soundtrack album of all time. She entered rehab twice and in 2011, enrolled in an outpatient program. A representative for Houston said that the outpatient treatment was a part of Houston's "longstanding recovery process". Click here to show this chart's declinations. [271][272] That same day, she made her last public performance when she joined Kelly Price on stage in Hollywood, California and sang "Jesus Loves Me". Discover what happened on this day. [248] The album's first two singles were the title track "I Look to You" and "Million Dollar Bill". [55][56], Houston's second album, Whitney, was released in June 1987. The performance aired on January 30, 2011.[258]. Each shape they produce has a different meaning. Aretha Franklin said, "It's so stunning and unbelievable. Houston's third studio album, I'm Your Baby Tonight (1990), yielded two Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles; "I'm Your Baby Tonight", and "All the Man That I Need" and was certified quintuple platinum by RIAA. The same year, Houston hit the road with her 70 date My Love Is Your Love World Tour. '"[329] After Houston's death, Catona asserted that Houston's voice reached "'about 75 to 80 percent'" of its former capacity after he had worked with her. [211], In December 2002, Houston released her fifth studio album, Just Whitney. [72] In the same year, she recorded a song for NBC's coverage of the 1988 Summer Olympics, "One Moment in Time", which became a Top 5 hit in the US, while reaching number one in the UK and Germany. [378], Houston's debut album is listed as one of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time by Rolling Stone magazine[52] and is on Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Definitive 200 list. Following the critical and commercial success of My Love Is Your Love (1998), Houston renewed her contract with Arista for $100 million. She grew up in a musical family with cousin Dionne Warwick and her godmother Aretha Franklin. [209], In August 2001, Houston signed one of the biggest record deals in music history, with Arista/BMG. After the show, Davis and Houston announced plans to go into the studio to work on her new album. Please check back soon for updates. [47] She won her first Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female for "Saving All My Love for You". [231] Despite the perceived train-wreck nature of the show, the series gave Bravo its highest ratings in its time slot and continued Houston's successful forays into film and television. Ralph M. Jr., "Interview with Whitney Houston", Dateline NBC, December 10, 1996 (transcript available at. [213][214][215] She later made an appearance on Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Special, where her extremely thin frame further spurred rumors of drug use.
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