02/06/2023 Coming to the U.S. a British import via the Hip Hop movement, Monie Love found herself amidst the cream of the crop within the rap community. [418] The film was directed by Nick Broomfield. And many fans are convinced that her family tree is cursed. 4, UK No. Much of Whitney's early life influenced her interest in music thanks to the singing career of her mother Cissy Houston. A month after news of the lawsuit made headlines in October 2002, Houston told Diana . In Whitney's 1982 bedroom, she had a photo of her cousin Dionne Warwick on the wall. [47] In an interview with MTV years later, Houston explained the difficulties she and Arista faced on trying to bring "You Give Good Love" on the channel but was rebuffed because it was "too R&B" for their playlist. [389] In 2008, Billboard magazine released a list of the Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists to celebrate the US singles chart's 50th anniversary, ranking Houston at number nine. [24][33] The offers, however, were turned down by her mother because Cissy wanted Houston to finish school. "Whitney Houston possessed a mezzo-soprano vocal range and was commonly referred to as 'The Voice' about her exceptional vocal talent. [217], In August 2001, Houston signed one of the biggest record deals in music history, with Arista/BMG. . In addition to co-producing, Houston starred in the film as the Fairy Godmother along with Brandy, Jason Alexander, Whoopi Goldberg and Bernadette Peters. On her mother's side, it is alleged that Houston had Dutch and Native American ancestry. [62] In 2004, Billboard picked the success of her first release on the charts as one of 110 Musical Milestones in its history. The legendary singer died at the age of 48 on February 11, 2012. However, the dynamic with her father, John Russell Houston, was a bit complicated. [78], Houston was a supporter of Nelson Mandela and the anti-apartheid movement. [28] In 2019, seven years after Houston's death, Crawford admitted that their early relationship included sexual activity but stopped before Houston signed a recording deal. She became one of the first women of color to appear on the cover of a fashion magazine when she appeared on the cover of Seventeen. 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". Picture: Getty. Houston co-executive produced[124] The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album and recorded six songs for the album. The February 11, 2012, Clive Davis pre-Grammy party that Houston had been expected to attend, which featured many of the biggest names in music and film, went on as scheduled although it was quickly turned into a tribute to Houston. When it came to her estate, Houston left it to her daughter, Bobbi Kristina. Her voice opened doors all over the world for every female artist who came after her. Ten years ago today, the world lost Whitney Houston. Father of Whitney. When the opportunity arose to do her own morning show, Monie, eager to continue moving to new heights, took that position, which brought her to the Philly Tri State area. "[224] In a 2009 interview with Oprah Winfrey, Houston acknowledged that drug use had been the reason for her weight loss. It peaked at No. Often acting as the intermediary between Whitney and the rest of her family, Pat became integral in Whitney's life, especially close to the end. [73][74][75] Following the release of the album, Houston embarked on the Moment of Truth World Tour, which was one of the ten highest-grossing concert tours of 1987 and the highest-grossing tour by a female artist, topping tours by both Madonna and Tina Turner. [122] It remains in the top forty of most successful rated-R films in box office history. In 2009, Houston sat down with Oprah Winfrey to discuss her feelings toward her fathers lawsuit against her. Pat Houston, Whitney's sister-in-law, is the primary executor of the Whitney Houston estate. A Whitney Houston hologram is about us, not her, writes Holly Thomas - and the same is true of AI renderings of other dead celebrities like Anthony Bourdain, Amy Winehouse and Michael Jackson. [362], Regarding the musical style, Houston's vocal performances incorporated a wide variety of genres, including R&B, pop, rock,[363] soul, gospel, funk,[364] dance, Latin pop,[365] disco,[366] house,[367] hip hop soul,[368] new jack swing,[369] opera,[370] and Christmas. [217] In 2019, Crawford said she had left after Houston declined to seek help for her drug dependency. On the week of March 8, 1986, a year after its initial release, Whitney Houston topped the Billboard 200 albums chart and stayed there for 14 non-consecutive weeks. Interestingly, Gordon was an adoptive brother of sorts to Brown . Later that year, Houston sang background on mother Cissy's solo album, Think It Over, with the title track later reaching the top 5 of the Billboard disco chart. A bonus track from the album's Japanese edition, "Higher Love", was remixed by Norwegian DJ and record producer Kygo and released posthumously in 2019 to commercial success. The double disc set peaked at number five in the United States, reaching number one in the United Kingdom. I thought it was so wrong. And because every new star creates her own genre, her success has helped other blacks, other women, other smooth singers find an avid reception in the pop marketplace.[22]. Traces of Xanax, Benadryl, and marijuana were found in her system. I make too much money to ever smoke crack. [227] It reached No. In a new interview with Oprah Winfrey,Whitney Houston's older brother admits he was responsible for introducing the late singer to drugs, including crack cocaine,back in the 1980s. A tense and somber Bobby Brown stepped out of the Emory University Hospital for fresh air on Feb. 5, as his daughter Bobbi Kristina remains in a coma. [111], Throughout the 1980s, Houston was romantically linked to musician Jermaine Jackson,[112] American football star Randall Cunningham and actor Eddie Murphy. "[219] The "crack is wack" line was drawn from a mural that Keith Haring painted in 1986 on the handball court at 128th Street and Second Avenue in Manhattan. 4, UK No. [180] However, Halle Berry also had rights to the project and got her version going first. [409], At a 1988 Madison Square Garden concert, Houston earned more over $250,000 for the United Negro College Fund (UNCF). Certainly all three have their devotees and detractors, but their presence has been inescapable." / 04.14.2021. Bobby Brown said he was "scared to death" to marry Whitney Houston 30 years ago, but his current wife talked him out of his pre-wedding jitters. [21] Houston would be taught how to sing throughout her adolescence by her mother Cissy. [403] In August 2014, she was inducted into the official Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame in its second class. The late Michael K. WilliamsWilliams sealed his status as one . In the film, Houston portrays Sparks's "not-so encouraging" mother. It was so much press, and the media was following me around, I couldnt grieve in privacy, Houston told Oprah. We, Yahoo, are part of the Yahoo family of brands. [326] The album won two NAACP Image Awards for 'Outstanding Album' and 'Outstanding Song' ("I Look to You"). All Rights Reserved. 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When the singer died in February 2012, Bobbi was named as the sole beneficiary of her mother's estate. Whitney Houston's family inherited her fortune after her daughter's death. [154], Following the success of The Bodyguard, Houston embarked on another expansive global tour (The Bodyguard World Tour) in 199394. Houston later embarked on a world tour, entitled the Nothing but Love World Tour. 50 in November 1968). Dee Dee Warwick, a Grammy-nominated artist who sang backup vocals for Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin, is the sister of Dionne Warwick. Houston began singing in the church choir at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark at age five, where she also learned to play the piano. It stated that she paved the way for Mariah Carey's chart-topping vocal gymnastics. Un-unh. 1", Whitney Houston Albums and Singles Chart History|Billboard, Whitney Houston Albums Chart History|Billboard, "Sneak Peek: Whitney Houston's New Duet With R. Kelly 'I Look to You' (Audio)", "I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU: THE BEST OF WHITNEY HOUSTON", Houston's first live album, "Whitney Houston Live" makes impressive debuts at No. Information about your device and internet connection, like your IP address, Browsing and search activity while using Yahoo websites and apps. [352] In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Houston as the second greatest singer of all time, stating, "The standard-bearer for R&B vocals, Whitney Houston possessed a soprano that was as powerful as it was tender. In his book The Big Show: High Times and Dirty Dealings Backstage at the Academy Awards, author Steve Pond revealed that "Houston's voice was shaky, she seemed distracted and jittery and her attitude was casual, almost defiant"; though she was supposed to perform "Over the Rainbow", she would sing a different song during rehearsals. The cause of death was deemed "accidental drowning, heart disease and cocaine use.". [228] Houston stated that her 81-year-old father had nothing to do with the lawsuit. Her lifestyle choices had made her almost completely hoarse. [322] On March 7, 2012, Houston claimed two more additional feats on the US Billboard charts: she became the first and only female act to place nine albums within the top 100[323] (with Whitney: The Greatest Hits at number 2, The Bodyguard at number 5, Whitney Houston at number 10, I Look to You at number 13, Triple Feature at number 21, My Love Is Your Love at number 31, I'm Your Baby Tonight at number 32, Just Whitney at number 50 and The Preacher's Wife at number 80);[324][325] in addition, other Houston albums were also on the US Billboard Top 200 Album Chart at this time. "She was a brilliant performer and her live shows often eclipsed her studio recordings. She also began performing on late-night television talk shows, which were not usually accessible to non-established black acts. 8 for the highest-earning entertainers list according to Forbes. "[363] While AllMusic commented that, "Houston was able to handle big adult contemporary ballads, effervescent, stylish dance-pop and slick urban contemporary soul with equal dexterity". Five years after the loss of Bobbi Kristina, Bobby's son, Bobby Jr. was found dead in his Los Angeles home on November 18, 2020. She lived there until she turned 4 years old. Okay? "Because Whitney, more than any other single artist Michael Jackson included effectively mapped out the course of modern R&B, setting the bar for standards of soul vocalese and creating the original template for what we now routinely refer to as the 'soul diva' ", stated Gill. [250] The album's first two singles were the title track "I Look to You" and "Million Dollar Bill". [390][391] Similarly, she was ranked as one of the "Top 100 Greatest Artists of All Time" by VH1 in September 2010. Houston and Chase then obtained the rights to the story of Dorothy Dandridge. [169], The film's accompanying soundtrack, Waiting to Exhale: Original Soundtrack Album, was written and produced by Babyface. It was beyond disturbing, seeing my daughter's face cut out like that." No other female pop star not Mariah Carey, not Celine Dion, not Barbra Streisand quite rivals Houston in her exquisite vocal fluidity and purity of tone and her ability to infuse a lyric with mesmerizing melodrama. 19). [272][273], Two days later, on February 11, Houston was found unconscious in Suite 434 at the Beverly Hilton, submerged in the bathtub. [276][277] The cause of death was not immediately known;[6][276] local police said there were "no obvious signs of criminal intent". Still, she quickly added, theyll never get $100 million out of me. 4), a duet with Mariah Carey for 1998's The Prince of Egypt soundtrack, which also became an international hit as it peaked in the Top 10 in several countries and won an Academy Award for Best Original Song;[190] "Heartbreak Hotel" (US No. [381] Richard Corliss of Time magazine commented on her initial success breaking various barriers: Of her first album's ten cuts, six were ballads. Bobby Brown is opening up on the latest episode of "Red Table Talk" on Facebook Watch about the drug-related deaths of his . . AllMusic noted her contribution to the success of black artists on the pop scene. [240] The show was not renewed for a second season after Houston said that she would no longer appear in it and Brown and Bravo could not come to an agreement for another season. An open bottle of champagne and a spoon containing a "white crystal like substance"along with a rolled-up piece of white paper werespotted near her body, according to the coroner's report. [408], Houston was a long-time supporter of several charities all around the world. "She repeats herself a lot and doesn't remember what she says. If she was less influential than they were in the years since, it was only because her gift was so rare, so impossible to mimic. "[355], Singer Faith Evans stated: "Whitney wasn't just a singer with a beautiful voice. During a recent episode of "Red Table Talk," the singer opened up about some of the tragedies he's experienced over the years. [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. [79][80] On June 11, 1988, during the European leg of her tour, Houston joined other musicians to perform a set at Wembley Stadium in London to celebrate a then-imprisoned Nelson Mandela's 70th birthday. Let's get that straight. [56] She won her first Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "Saving All My Love for You". Monie, coming from a Jamaican background with parents who saw to it that complete knowledge of ancestry and African history was prevalent in the household, recently joined the ranks of artist/activists to form SANKOFA Social Justice Organization, lead by Harry Belafonte. [126] The soundtrack's lead single was "I Will Always Love You", written and originally recorded by Dolly Parton in 1974. April 17, 2021. She won Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist at the 1997 American Music Awards for The Preacher's Wife soundtrack. However, some poor reviews and rescheduled concerts brought negative media attention. Whitney Houston performs with her half-brother . 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