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Whitney Houston would have turned 51 today, August 9th, and we're paying a tribute by taking a look back at her career that spanned decades and delighted fans around the world in the slideshow above.
Whitney's 11-straight-week reign on the chart from June 27 to September 5, 1987, made Houston to hold two decade records by a woman: the most consecutive chart-topping streaks and the most cumulative weeks at number one in the 1980s. [66] Whitney Houston and Whitney are the only albums by a female artist to occupy number one position of the ...
In 1987, Houston released the music video for "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)", the first single from her second album Whitney (1987), which depicts Houston in one of her iconic looks, the clip―towering curly wig, colorful dangly earrings and a series of going-to-the-club outfits.
New Hope Baptist Church, where Houston sang in the choir as a child. Whitney Elizabeth Houston was born on August 9, 1963, at Presbyterian Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, to Emily "Cissy" (née Drinkard) and John Russell Houston Jr. [12] Cissy was a Grammy-winning gospel and soul singer who was a member of The Drinkard Singers and the founder of The Sweet Inspirations before becoming a solo ...
Whitney Houston was the first album by a female artist to be number 1 on the Billboard Year End Albums Charts of 1986. [20] According to Consequence of Sound, the album reached a massive level of cross-over that was unprecedented at the time for a black female music artist. [20]
With the release of the new biopic, Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody, fans new and old are getting a closer look at the life, career and struggles of a generational talent gone too ...
The 1980s was a time of hair and more hair, with a highly-teased look and lots of volume (made possible with tons of hair spray!). If you weren't blessed with natural curls, you just got a perm ...
"I Look to You" † Whitney Houston: R. Kelly: I Look to You: 2009 [26] "I Look to You" † Whitney Houston and R. Kelly: R. Kelly: I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston: 2012 [42] "I Love the Lord" Whitney Houston with the Georgia Mass Choir: Richard Smallwood: The Preacher's Wife: 1996 [38] "I Was Made to Love Him" Whitney ...