Whitney Houston

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Recent Role:
Herself on TMZ on TV
Gender:
Female
Born:
8-9-1963
Died:
2-11-2012
Birthplace:
East Orange, New Jersey
Birth Name:
Whitney Elizabeth Houston
AKA:
Nippy

Whitney Houston's career has resulted in many international awards. She achieved her first of six career Grammy awards for "Saving All My Love For You" (from her self-titled debut album), which won the Best Female Pop Vocal award for 1985, an award Whitney duplicated two years later for "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)." At the 1993 Grammy awards, The Bodyguard won Album Of the Year while "I Will Always Love You" netted Record Of the Year and Whitney's third Best Female Pop Vocal award. Whitney took home her sixth career Grammy, and her first R&B award, at the 42nd annual Grammy

More ceremonies on February 23, 2000, when "It's Not Right But It's Okay" won for Best Female R&B Vocal.

She has earned an impressive list of entertainment industry awards also includes 21 American Music Awards (the most for any female recording artist), 15 Billboard Music Awards, 11 NAACP Image Awards, six People's Choice Awards, seven "Soul Train" Music Awards, five World Music Awards, two Emmy Awards, the MTV Music Video award and MTV Movie Award, a Cable ACE Award, the Dove (Gospel Music Association) Award, the Blockbuster Entertainment Award, and the Nickelodeon Kids Choice award. In November 1995, Whitney was inducted into the "Soul Train" Hall of Fame. In 1996, she was inducted into the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Hall of Fame and BET (Black Entertainment Television) Walk of Fame. In February 1998, "Soul Train" bestowed its prestigious Quincy Jones Career Achievement Award upon Whitney; and in March 2000, she was honoured with the "Soul Train" Music Award as Female Artist Of the Decade.

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    is inarguably one of the of the biggest female pop stars of all time. Her accomplishments as a hitmaker are extraordinary. hide show

    Whitney Houston is inarguably one of the of the biggest female pop stars of all time. Her accomplishments as a hitmaker are extraordinary; just to scratch the surface, she became the first artist ever to have seven consecutive singles hit number one, and her 1993 Dolly Parton cover "I Will Always Love You" became nothing less than the biggest hit single in rock history. Houston was able to handle big adult contemporary ballads, effervescent, stylish dance-pop, and slick urban contemporary soul with equal dexterity; the result was an across-the-board appeal that was matched by scant few artists of her era, and helped her become one of the first black artists to find success on MTV in Michael Jackson's wake. Like many of the original soul singers, Houston was trained in gospel before moving into secular music; over time, she developed a virtuosic singing style given over to swooping, flashy melodic embellishments.

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    First let me say that Whitney Houston is an outstanding singer. In fact, one of the all time greatest. That said, I don't care much for her music. Also, this review is only based on her acting. Her acting is bad, but not awful (for a singer/non-actor). "The Bodyguard" was just painful to watch.

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    whitney houston is my idole also. she deffinetly a voice from an angel. if i had a voice,i would not take drugs, or ertire. hide show

    whitney houston is a ledgend. she has a beautiful voice.
    whitney needs to come back and come back strong.please stay off drugs and come back. i love you witney houston. stay in rehab until you get better,and run away. i love much love for you witney houston. remember to always keep your chin up ,and always keep god first. let him drive your life into the correct direction ! !! ! !!! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

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    i really like whitney houston. i enjoy her poppy dance songs and her slow love balleds at the same time. i also think she has a really powerful and good voice and i think she's really talented. hide show

    whitney houston has always been one of my personal fravroites. i love her dance hits and can't stop listing to her romtanic stuff. i also really like her voice. i think it's really strong and powerful and has alot of talent to it, i think her only flaw is her surpy leryics. when i first heard of her when i was younger i only liked her because of i will always love you but when i got older i learned to appricate her other stuff and started to really like her. i just think she sould of won more grammys and best new artist but she didn't. i think it was because she was a pop artist and people never take them seriously. in conclusion i just really like whitney houston. i think her voice is great and i always keep dancing to her pop stuff and loved her other songs. i think she's a great artist and one of pops best.

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    Whitney, I have prayed for you since the day I saw you back in 1990. Whitney, is a powerful person with so much to give to the world, if only we allow her to be human. I love the fact that in spite of your trials and tribulations at the moment, you are still able to have a life with your family. Keep God first in all things, not some things but all things and he will show you the way out of this trial. I love you and your family, I appreciate that you and your family has allow the world to see that you are human and that agape love is what holds a family together.

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