Whitney Houston
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Gender | Female |
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Death | 11 years ago |
Date of birth | August 9,1963 |
Zodiac sign | Leo |
Born | Newark |
New Jersey | |
United States | |
Date of died | February 11,2012 |
Died | Beverly Hills |
California | |
United States | |
Did you know | Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You is the sixth-best-selling single worldwide by sales 20 million. |
Whitney | |
Height | 168 (cm) |
Job | Actor |
Model | |
Songwriter | |
Film Producer | |
Record producer | |
Composer | |
Gospel singer | |
Books | The Greatest Love of All: Piano/Vocal/Chords, Sheet |
Sparkle: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack | |
The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album | |
6 Of The Best: Whitney Houston: Piano, Voice and Guitar | |
The Preacher's Wife Songbook | |
The Best of Whitney Houston for Guitar | |
Whitney Houston 1963-2012 : [eleven tracks arranged for piano, voice ad guitar with full lyrics and guitar chord boxes] | |
The Preacher's Wife | |
Listen artist | www.youtube.com |
Spouse | Bobby Brown |
Children | Bobbi Kristina Brown |
Songs | The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album |
List | I Will Always Love YouThe Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album · 1992 |
1992 | |
1987 | |
Albums | I Look to You |
My Love Is Your Love | |
Whitney | |
Whitney Houston | |
Parents | Cissy Houston |
John Russell Houston | |
Siblings | Gary Garland |
Michael Houston | |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 404053 |
Sparkle
Waiting to Exhale
The Preacher's Wife
The Princess Diaries
Whitney: Can I Be Me
Being Bobby Brown
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
Cinderella
Whitney Houston: This is My Life
Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration
VH1 Divas Live '99
Whitney Houston: A Song for You: Live
It's Black Entertainment!
Diary of a Mad Black Woman
The Bodyguard
Grammy Award for Record of the Year
Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance
Grammy Hall of Fame
Billboard Music Award for Top Female Artist
MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video
Billboard Music Special Millennium Award
American Music Award for Favorite Female Artist Pop/Rock
American Music Award International Artist Award
NAACP Image Award for Entertainer of the Year
BET Lifetime Achievement Award
American Music Award for Favorite Album Soul/R&B
Billboard Music Award for Top R&B Artist
American Music Award for Favorite Album Pop/Rock
Soul Train Music Award for Best Song of the Year
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Gospel Artist
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Female Artist
American Music Award for Favorite Artist Adult Contemporary
American Music Award for Favorite Female Artist Soul/R&B
American Music Award of Merit
People's Choice Award for Favorite Female Artist
Soul Train Music Award for Quincy Jones Award – Career Achievement
MTV Europe Music Award for Global Icon
MTV Europe Music Award for Best R&B
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
Billboard Music Award for Top R&B Album
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding New Artist
MTV Movie Award for Best Musical Moment
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Duo or Group
Soul Train Music Award for Sammy Davis Jr. – Entertainer of the Year
American Music Award for Favorite Soul/R&B Single
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Album
Juno Award for International Album of the Year
Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance - Variety Or Music Program
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Song
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Music Video
American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Single
Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Album – Female
Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Single – Female
American Music Award for Favorite Soul/R&B Video
Soul Train Music Award for Best Gospel/Inspirational Song
American Music Award for Favorite Adult Contemporary Album
People's Choice Award for Favorite Music Video
NRJ Music Award for International Album of the Year
Soul Train Music Special Artist of the Decade Award for Extraordinary Artistic Achievements-Female
World Music Award for World's Best Selling Female Pop Artist
Billboard Music Award for No. 1 World Single
Kids' Choice Awards Hall of Fame
Echo Award for Hall of Fame
The BET Honors Award for Excellence in Entertainment
Whitney Houston Life story
Whitney Elizabeth Houston was an American singer and actress. Nicknamed "the Voice", she is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with over 220 million records sold worldwide. In 2023, Rolling Stone named her the second-greatest singer of all time.
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... He says he draws inspiration from the likes of Whitney Houston, Stevie Wonder and Beyoncé, as well as gospel music, which he came to love through his church roots...
UK chart: One in four top 40 songs samples older track
... In the US, two firms have snapped up the rights to dozens of tracks by legendary artists such as Bob Marley, Prince, James Brown, and Whitney Houston...
Rihanna, Lizzo and Marilyn Monroe shine in V& A's Diva exhibition
... The exhibition also features costumes and memorabilia from Lil Nas X, Amy Winehouse, Prince, Aretha Franklin, Doja Cat, Dame Shirley Bassey, Whitney Houston and more...
Deezer: Streaming service to detect and delete 'deepfake' AI songs
... " For example, personally, I would love to see AI bring Whitney Houston back to life, and come up with amazing new tracks with her voice...
Jessie Ware: 'Slightly classy with a bit of innuendo'
... She d be more likely to listen to soul singers like Donny Hathaway, Chaka Khan and Whitney Houston, before entering a huge drum and bass phase in her teens...
Theatre etiquette in the spotlight after The Bodyguard incident in Manchester
... " The Bodyguard is adapted from the 1992 film starring Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner, and the musical version, starring Pussycat Doll Melody Thornton, features many other Whitney hits...
The Bodyguard cut short in Manchester due to rowdy singalongs
... The theatre had previously asked people not to sing along to the stage adaptation of the 1992 film, which stars Thornton and former Emmerdale and Hollyoaks actor Ayden Callaghan in the roles made famous by Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner...
Michael Jackson's nephew Jafaar Jackson to play him in biopic
... Michael will become the latest in a string of big-screen musical biopics, following the release of movies which have charted the careers of Whitney Houston, Elvis Presley, Queen and Elton John...
Rihanna, Lizzo and Marilyn Monroe shine in V& A's Diva exhibition
By Emma SaundersEntertainment reporter
What springs to mind when you hear The Word diva?
Mariah, who proudly owns the title? Beyoncé? Madonna?
You wouldn't be Wrong - But The Word was coined long before our modern-day pop stars entered stage left.
A new exhibition titled Diva at London's Victoria and Albert Museum is showcasing costumes, artefacts and images from a troupe of fabulous queens, beginning with opera singers and early silent film stars, and taking us through to today's A-list celebrities.
The original diva, which means " goddess" in Latin, referred to opera's Leading Ladies , or prima donnas. Their success offered them an independence and agency that few women had at The Time .
Later, stars of stage and screen, such as avant garde dancer Isadora Duncan , used their bodies as a medium for expression, moving away from restrictive corsets to flowing gowns (pictured above). The white silk dress was designed by Mariano Fortuny and was inspired by Greek drapery.
More exposure was offered to silent film's Femme Fatales with the growth of The Movie industry in the early 20Th Century . This image shows Theda Bara , one of cinema's early sex symbols, who starred in 1917's Cleopatra. Playing up her vamp persona, Bara's Cleopatra costume was risqué and revealing, combining a traditional Egyptian look with burlesque seduction.
It's thought Bara designed her own costumes, perhaps inspired by her tailor father and wig-maker mother. The bulk of Bara's films were sadly lost in a fire at Fox Studios' vault in 1937.
Later, Hollywood's golden era saw the likes of Mae West , Katharine Hepburn , Bette Davis and Marilyn Monroe take the spotlight. Monroe once responded to accusations of diva-ish behaviour by saying: " People think that why I'm late is some kind of Arrogance . . I think it is The Opposite of Arrogance . . I want to Be Prepared when I get there to give a good performance to The Best of my ability. "
This 1967 Andy Warhol screenprint of the screen siren is on display, along with a black fringed dress from Some Like It Hot.
Designed by Christian Dior , this dress was worn by double Oscar winner Vivien Leigh in 1958. There were allegations of so-called diva behaviour on The Set of Gone With The Wind , But her co-star Olivia De Havilland defended her in 2006, " She had two great concerns: doing her best work in an extremely difficult role and being separated from Larry [her then husband, Laurence Olivier ], who was in New York . "
Meanwhile, modern opera divas continued to perform and command worship across the globe, with Maria Callas 's performances in works such Puccini's Tosca and Verdi's La Traviata becoming legendary in The Arts world. The Image above shows Callas as Violetta in the latter at The Royal Opera House in 1958.
Since the 1960s, an Age Of sexual liberation and political activism, modern divas have built on the definition of the term and reinvented it. Cher, Elton John and Diana Ross are pictured here at The Rock Awards at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium , California, in 1975.
Cher's stage costumes are never understated. During a concert in Los Angeles in 2002, The Singer told The Crowd to rapturous applause: " I have been a frickin' diva for 40 frickin' years! " Cher's iridescent two-piece from The 1975 Rock Music Awards is pictured front left.
Tina Turner , who died last month, is also honoured in The Exhibition . Her famous flame dress, designed by Bob Mackie , is on display. He also designed a similar dress for Cher, while other stars including RuPaul and Beyoncé have also gone on to wear versions of it. Beyoncé wore hers when she.
Sir Elton John 's 50th birthday look proves that divas don't have to be female. The Outfit was created by award-winning costume designer Sandy Powell . Inspired by Louis Xiv , France's decadent Sun King, it featured a huge wig and a 15ft (4. 5m) train.
Pop star Rihanna's Pope-inspired outfit from the 2018 Met Gala sits alongside Sir Elton 's costume.
The ensemble, encrusted with pearls and jewels, was designed by Margiela. Harper's Bazaar magazine said The Singer had the winning outfit on fashion's biggest night of the year.
Janelle Monaé's famous 'vulva pants', which she wore for the Pynk Music Video in 2018, are showcased at The Exhibition . Designer Duran Lantink the inspiration for The Outfit was " empowerment of women, freedom of sexuality [and] equal rights".
About Damn Time singer Lizzo's faux ermine dress was worn with a sash embroidered with The Words : " Don't be a drag, be a queen. " It was designed by Viktor & Rolf, and can also be seen at the V& A.
A diva is someone who has " a strong sense of self, an attitude, and knowing How To use their voice" lead curator Kate Bailey said.
" We really wanted to show that story. . where they've given their voice to change, from activism to global feminism. So it's a sort of celebration of that side of the diva as well as the feathers and the sequins. "
This image shows stage outfits from Billie Eilish (left) and Blondie (right). The Exhibition also features costumes and memorabilia from Lil Nas X, Amy Winehouse , Prince, Aretha Franklin , Doja Cat , Dame Shirley Bassey , Whitney Houston and more.
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