Michael Houston told Winfreythat he was the first person Whitney ever did drugs with, not the singers ex-husband Bobby Brown. [376], Houston is one of the best-selling recording artists of all time, with more than 200 million records sold worldwide. For that project, she contributed the ballad "Memories", a cover of a song by Hugh Hopper of Soft Machine. However, some poor reviews and rescheduled concerts brought negative media attention. I couldn't believe what I was reading coming across the TV screen. It features the remastered versions of her number-one hits, an unreleased song titled "Never Give Up" and a duet version of "I Look to You" with R. [41] It would also appear on her debut album in 1985. "[244], Houston told Winfrey that she had attended a 30-day rehabilitation program. EVEN 10 years after Whitney Houston's shocking death, her legacy has been marred by similar tragedies that have affected those closest to the musical legend. Houston died just before the Grammys in 2012. [259] In September 2011, The Hollywood Reporter announced that Houston would produce and star alongside Jordin Sparks and Mike Epps in the remake of the 1976 film Sparkle. [92], She then met R&B singer Bobby Brown at the 1989 Soul Train Music Awards. "Album Review: Whitney Houston's 'I Look To You'". [178] The album received mainly positive reviews. Houston co-executive produced[124] The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album and recorded six songs for the album. Next to it was a poster of her mom Cissy. Houston was initially offered the role of Cinderella in 1993, but other projects intervened. Houston produced the album with Mervyn Warren and Gordon Chambers. I was paying the bills. [220][30] The following month, Rolling Stone published a story stating that Cissy Houston and others had held a July 1999 intervention in which they unsuccessfully attempted to persuade Whitney to obtain drug treatment. April 14, 2021, 6:10 PM PDT / Source: TODAY. The performance aired on January 30, 2011. [51] The album would later be certified 14 platinum for sales of 14 million units alone in the United States, while selling over 22million copies worldwide. . [247]) Houston also told Winfrey that Brown had been emotionally abusive during their marriage and had even spat on her on one occasion. 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 woman in music history. Although Skinner tried to claim otherwise, John Houston never appeared in court. Whitney Houston's older brother, Gary, sits down with Oprah to share how he's coping with the sudden death of his little sister. Robert Christgau of The Village Voice called her contribution "one of the most gorgeous ballads you've ever heard".[35]. She was 48 years old and on the precipice of . [376][377] Black female artists, such as Janet Jackson and Anita Baker, were successful in popular music partly because Houston paved the way. Brown discussed his marriage to the late singer in his upcoming A&E documentary, "Biography: Bobby Brown," which is set to premiere on May 30. [404] In October 2019, Houston was announced as a 2020 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominee, one of nine first-time nominees and 16 total. Her death derailed production, which would have begun in 2002.[260][261][262]. [83][84][85] With her world tour continuing overseas, Houston was still one of the top 20 highest-earning entertainers for 198788 according to Forbes. [283], On March 22, 2012, the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office reported that Houston's death was caused by drowning and the "effects of atherosclerotic heart disease and cocaine use". [270][271] That same day, she made her last public performance when she joined Kelly Price on stage in Hollywood, California, and sang "Jesus Loves Me". 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Distract me from him, she continued. Dee Dee Warwick, a Grammy-nominated artist who sang backup vocals for Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin, is the sister of Dionne Warwick. [50] At the time, the album was the bestselling debut album by a solo artist. On February 9, 2012, Houston visited singers Brandy and Monica, together with Clive Davis, at their rehearsals for Davis's pre-Grammy Awards party at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills. You can hear 'The Icon' Monie Love every Saturday 6pm on Sirius XM radio with her show Ladies First that is now approaching it's 7th year running on the satellite network. [378][64][379] Baker commented that "Because of what Whitney and Sade did, there was an opening for me For radio stations, black women singers aren't taboo anymore."[380]. In the finale of the ceremony, Kirk Franklin and the Family started their performance with "The Greatest Love of All". [2] Houston influenced many singers in popular music, and was known for her powerful, soulful vocals and vocal improvisation skills. Houston also became the second female act, after Adele, to place two albums in the top five of the US Billboard Top 200, with Whitney: The Greatest Hits at number 2 and The Bodyguard at number 5. Monie travels and performs both as a solo artist and also as part of Classic Hip Hop performance collective THE ALUMNI along side fellow artists Kwame, Dana Dane, Special Ed and Chubb Rock. I was losing myself. [141][142][143] The album was certified 18 platinum in the US alone,[144] with worldwide sales of 45 million copies. '"[361] 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. The manner of death was listed as an accident.. This included helping her straighten out the legal issue surrounding her 2000 drug bust in Hawaii. The same year, Houston hit the road with her 70 date My Love Is Your Love World Tour. Just Whitney was certified platinum in the United States and sold about two million worldwide. In January 2015, she was tragically found unconscious in a bath in her home. Classic Whitney: Live from Washington, D.C. 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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". The album sold six million copies worldwide and scored hit singles with "I Believe in You and Me" and "Step by Step", becoming the largest selling gospel album of all time. But he would later claim it was Whitney who introduced him tococaineshortly before their wedding. Debra Martin Chase, producer of Sparkle, stated that Houston deserved the title considering she had been there from the beginning in 2001, when Houston obtained Sparkle production rights. "Whitney Houston possessed a mezzo-soprano vocal range and was commonly referred to as 'The Voice' about her exceptional vocal talent. It was certified Gold by the RIAA in 2020. [276][277] The cause of death was not immediately known;[6][276] local police said there were "no obvious signs of criminal intent". [92] Her first film role was in The Bodyguard, released in 1992. When news broke back in 2012 that Whitney Houston had died due to a drug overdose, many people speculated that it was Bobby Brown who introduced her to narcotics. In the 1990s, it would seem to be a three-way tie between Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey and Celine Dion. The jazzy ballad "Saving All My Love for You" was released next and it would become Houston's first number one single in both the US and the UK. She performed "Million Dollar Bill" on the following day's results show, completing the song even as a strap in the back of her dress popped open two seconds into the performance. [278], An invitation-only memorial service was held for Houston on February 18, 2012, at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey. Days after the death of his ex-wife, Bobby appeared at Whitney's memorial service, but was asked to leave by the family's security. While almost every performer whose albums sell in the millions calls upon an entertainer's bag of tricks, from telling jokes to dancing to circus pyrotechnics, Ms. Houston would rather just stand there and sing." The cause of death was deemed "accidental drowning, heart disease and cocaine use.". [ ] But perhaps what Houston nailed best was moderation." [255], In January 2010, Houston was nominated for two NAACP Image Awards, one for Best Female Artist and one for Best Music Video. [330][331] In 2017, the 25th anniversary reissue of The Bodyguard (soundtrack)I Wish You Love: More from The Bodyguardwas released by Legacy Recordings. A voice that only comes around once in a lifetime. [311], On May 17, 2017, Bebe Rexha released a single titled "The Way I Are (Dance with Somebody)" from her two-part album All Your Fault. The Whitney Houston Foundation for Children, in particular, focused on helping children who suffered from HIV/AIDS, among other issues. [62] In 2004, Billboard picked the success of her first release on the charts as one of 110 Musical Milestones in its history. [412] Following the terrorist attacks in 2001, Houston re-released "The Star-Spangled Banner" to support the New York Firefighters 9/11 Disaster Relief Fund and the New York Fraternal Order of Police. [22] After attending Franklin Elementary School (now the Whitney E. Houston Academy of Creative and Performing Arts), Houston was transferred to an all-girls Catholic school, Mount Saint Dominic Academy at nearby Caldwell, in her sixth grade year where she eventually graduated from in 1981 at 17. [7][8] Cissy recorded several albums with the group on their own, in addition to singing background for musicians such as Aretha Franklin, Jimi Hendrix and Elvis Presley,[9] and earned a Grammy Award nomination for the song, "Sweet Inspiration". The half-brother of Bobby's child with Whitney Houston, Bobbi - who passed away in 2015 at 22 - was found dead in his Los Angeles home on Wednesday, sources told TMZ. You get your act together, honey, he said on the syndicated television show Celebrity Justice via Billboard. Whitney, on the other hand, just sang and the ripples from her voice continue to dominate the pop landscape." Whitney is one of the best selling albums of all time, solely selling 20 million copies, and in total, Houston has sold over 200 million records. "[300], Ken Ehrlich, executive producer of the 54th Grammy Awards, announced that Jennifer Hudson would perform a tribute to Houston at the February 12, 2012, ceremony. [233] The album debuted at number 9 on the Billboard 200 chart and it had the highest first week sales of any album Houston had ever released. in, Last edited on 28 February 2023, at 19:49, one of the bestselling music artists of all time, early relationship included sexual activity, Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program, I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me), commercial single and video of the performance, Sammy Davis, Jr. Award as Entertainer of the Year, Whitney: The Concert for a New South Africa, Waiting to Exhale: Original Soundtrack Album, The Preacher's Wife: Original Soundtrack Album. [350] Jon Caramanica, another music critic of The New York Times, called Houston "R&B's great modernizer", adding "slowly but surely reconciling the ambition and praise of the church with the movements and needs of the body and the glow of the mainstream". [93] while Entertainment Weekly, at the time thought Houston's shift towards an urban direction was "superficial". "[350], Lauren Everitt from BBC News commented on melisma used in Houston's recording and its influence. "Spielberg Dethrones Oprah As Highest-Paid Entertainer", "If Ella Fitzgerald is the queen of jazz, Billie Holiday first lady of the blues and Aretha Franklin the queen of soul, then who is the queen of pop? In 2001, Houston was the first artist to be given a BET Lifetime Achievement Award. [26], In the same year, Houston met Robyn Crawford while both worked as counselors at a youth summer camp in East Orange. With them, Houston furthered her recording career by working with producers Michael Beinhorn, Bill Laswell and Martin Bisi on an album they were spearheading called One Down, which was credited to the group Material. 2 spot and eight weeks on top of the R&B charts, her second most successful single on that chart after "I Will Always Love You". Gill said that there "are few, if any, Jackson imitators on today's TV talent shows, but every other contestant is a Whitney wannabe, desperately attempting to emulate that wondrous combination of vocal effects the flowing melisma, the soaring mezzo-soprano confidence, the tremulous fluttering that carried the ends of lines into realms of higher yearning". Her daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, died in an eerily similar way to her mother. [402] Houston was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame in 2013. 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