[Musicians] Whitney Elizabeth Houston

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• Musician Name: Whitney Elizabeth Houston
• Birthday / Location: August 9, 1963 Newark, New Jersey February 11, 2012 (age 48) Beverly Hills, California
• Main instrument: R&B pop soul gospel dance
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• Other Information: Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012) was an American singer, songwriter, actress, producer, supermodel and businesswoman. She is considered by music critics as the best singer of all time. Her powerful vocals, which reached very high ranges, especially in melismas and vibratos, combined with smooth tessituras, and her extreme artistic talent in composing lyrics and melodies, made her known as A Voz e Rainha da Balada.
• Houston was the most awarded artist of all time according to Guinness World Records in 2009. Her list of awards includes: two Emmy Awards, seven Grammy Awards; sixteen Billboard Music Awards, twenty-two American Music Awards, for a total of 415 awards won in her career until 2013. One of the most successful artists in the music world, she has sold more than 400 million records worldwide.
• Inspired by several prominent family soul singers, including her mother Cissy Houston, cousins Dionne Warwick and Dee Dee Warwick, Houston began singing with the Church of New Jersey's junior gospel choir at age 11. After she began working as a backing vocalist at her mother's New York nightclub shows in 1977, she was discovered by Clive Davis in 1983, the year her professional career began. He was manager of Arista Records. Houston has released six studio albums and three soundtrack albums, all of which are certified diamond, multi-platinum, platinum and gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. Her self-titled debut album, released in 1985, became the best-selling debut album by a female artist, with 25 million copies sold. Her second album, Whitney (1987), became the first album by a female artist to debut at number one on the Billboard 200. Whitney achieved major hits on the po[CENSORED]r music charts, as well as her prominence on MTV, starting with her video for How Will I Know allowed several African-American female artists to follow their success.
• Houston's first film role was in the film The Bodyguard (1992), in which she was hugely successful as the lead. The film's original soundtrack won the 1994 Grammy for Album of the Year. Her first single, I Will Always Love You, became the best-selling single by a female artist in music history. The album is the only one by a female artist in the top five of all time, ranking fourth. Houston continued as a film star and contributed to film scores, including the films Waiting to Exhale (1995) and The Preacher's Wife (1996). Three years after the release of her fourth album, My Love Is Your Love (1998), Whitney renewed her contract with Arista Records. She released her fifth studio album Just Whitney in 2002 and the Christmas album titled One Wish: The Holiday Album in 2003. Amid widespread media coverage of her personal and professional turmoil, Houston ended her troubled marriage. 14-year-old with singer Bobby Brown in 2006. In 2009, Houston released her seventh and final studio album, I Look to You.
• Whitney was internationally recognized as one of the greatest artists of all time, due to her talent, legacy and, most importantly, her remarkable and legendary voice. Thanks to this remarkable vocal talent, Whitney was often called The Voice. Whitney is often compared to great artists of the past such as Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin and Elvis Presley and is also among Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Artists of All Time.
• Whitney died on February 11, 2012. The Los Angeles Criminalistics Institute report stated, in principle, that the death was accidental. The singer drowned in a hotel bathtub. According to the experts, there were signs of heart disease and traces of cocaine use.