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Biography
Whitney Houston was an American singer and actress known for her powerful, soulful vocals and vocal improvisation skills. She is the only artist to have had seven consecutive number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100.
Whitney Elizabeth Houston was born August 9, 1963 in Newark New Jersey to John Russell Houston, Jr and Emily "Cissy" Drinkard.[1][2][3]
Whitney started singing as a young child in church. She sang as a background vocalist during high school, and soon started work as a model. At age 19, she was signed to Arista Records. She was an immediate chart-topping success and was one of the best-selling female vocalists of all time.[3]
Whitney gained her first acting role in 1992's "The Bodyguard," and her single from the movie, "I Will Always Love You," became the best-selling physical single by a woman in music history.[3]
Whitney married R&B singer Bobby Brown July 18, 1992.[1] They had one daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, and divorced in 2007. Whitney and Bobby's relationship was tumultuous and often violent.[3]
Whitney struggled with drug use throughout her life. On February 11, 2012, she accidentally drowned in a bathtub at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills, with heart disease and cocaine use as contributing factors.[3] She is buried in Fairview Cemetery in Westfield, New Jersey.[4]
Cousins
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Cissy Houston. GenealogyBank.com, 2014
- ↑ Wikipedia: Cissy Houston
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Wikipedia contributors, "Whitney Houston," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Whitney_Houston&oldid=1129685818 (accessed December 26, 2022).
- ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 9 February 2021), memorial page for Whitney Houston (9 Aug 1963–11 Feb 2012), Find A Grave: Memorial #84839013, citing Fairview Cemetery, Westfield, Union County, New Jersey, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave .
- "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014," Database with images, FamilySearch: accessed 25 June 2015. Whitney Elizabeth Houston, California, US, 12 Feb 2012; from "Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 - Today)," GenealogyBank.com (www.genealogybank.com 2014).
- "United States Public Records, 1970-2009," FamilySearch: accessed 25 June 2015), Whitney Houston Brown, Residence, S Plainfield, New Jersey, United States; a third party aggregator of publicly available information.
