"U2, Bon Jovi were top concert acts of 1987". Brown was asked point-blank if he believes there was "foul play" involved in Houston's death. 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. 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. [185] Houston received the Quincy Jones Award for outstanding career achievements in the field of entertainment at the 12th Soul Train Music Awards. Though Whitneys brother admits he got her into drugs,the singers mother, Cissy Houston, stillblames Bobby Brown for her daughters untimely death. She went from 868,000 views in the week prior to her death to 40,200,000 views in the week following her death, a 45-fold increase.[321]. [58], Houston won seven American Music Awards in total in 1986 and 1987 and an MTV Video Music Award. . Although Skinner tried to claim otherwise, John Houston never appeared in court. In another room, there was a big, framed photo of [Whitney] but someone had cut [her] head out. [209] The greatest hits album was certified 5 platinum in the US, with worldwide sales of 10 million. 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. Whitney Houston was known for her close-knit relationships with her family and friends. . 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. [145], The album became the bestselling soundtrack album of all time. Celebrity Alley - Celebrity News and Gossip. Reviews were mixed. The legendary singer died at the age of 48 on February 11, 2012. What Mrs. DeBarge is saying speaks volumes about Whitney's and El's deep friendship, as well . [289], Tony Bennett spoke of Houston's death before performing at Davis's party. [258], In May 2011, Houston enrolled in a rehabilitation center again, citing drug and alcohol problems. By clicking Accept all you agree that Yahoo and our partners will process your personal information, and use technologies such as cookies, to display personalised ads and content, for ad and content measurement, audience insights, and product development. Pat Houston is better known for being the late pop sensation Whitney Houston's manager and her sister-in-law. ", Browns estate filed awrongful death lawsuit against Nickin 2015, alleging he beat her up after a cocaine and drinking binge.. [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. She enjoyed enormous success in the 1980s and 90s, selling more than 170 million albums and starring in the box-office smash movie The . Email us atexclusive@the-sun.comor call212 416 4552. This chanteuse [Houston] had to fight for air play with hard rockers. [264] On May 21, 2012, "Celebrate", the last song Houston recorded with Sparks, premiered at RyanSeacrest.com. [50] The final single, "Greatest Love of All" (a cover of "The Greatest Love of All", originally recorded by George Benson in 1977), became Houston's biggest hit yet; the single peaked at number one and remained there for three weeks, making Houston's debut the first album by a woman to yield three number-one hits. [416], Since Houston's sudden death in 2012, her life, career and death have been the subject of many documentaries and specials. 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[286] Toxicology results revealed additional drugs in her system: diphenhydramine (Benadryl), alprazolam (Xanax), cannabis, and cyclobenzaprine (Flexeril). The Washington Post remarked that Houston was "doing nothing more than playing [herself]", but added that she came out "largely unscathed if that is possible in so cockamamie an undertaking". Included on the album were four new songs: "Could I Have This Kiss Forever" (a duet with Enrique Iglesias), "Same Script, Different Cast" (a duet with Deborah Cox), "If I Told You That" (a duet with George Michael) and "Fine" and three hits that had never appeared on a Houston album: "One Moment in Time", "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "If You Say My Eyes Are Beautiful", a duet with Jermaine Jackson from his 1986 Precious Moments album. [37] Houston did not begin work on an album immediately. The estate also claimed that Nick gave Bobbi a toxic cocktail that caused her to pass out, resulting in her death. Houston played a star who is stalked by a crazed fan and hires a bodyguard (played by Kevin Costner) to protect her. Rolling Stone felt it was her "best and most integrated album". [230] The lawsuit was dismissed on April 5, 2004, and Skinner was awarded nothing. 071 "50 Greatest Women of the Video Era", "Who Will Come Out On Top Of VH1's 100 Greatest Artists Of All Time? Though the two were exceptionally close in the beginning, their relationship became strained after the late businessman sued his superstar daughter in 2002. It was so much press, and the media was following me around, I couldnt grieve in privacy, Houston told Oprah. You can change your choices at any time by visiting your privacy controls. Take her cover of Dolly Partons I Will Always Love You, which became one of the defining singles of the 1990s; it opens with her gently brooding, her unaccompanied voice sounding like its turning over the idea of leaving her lover behind with the lightest touch. | Vh1 Blog", "Top 50 R&B/Hip-Hop Artists of the Past 25 Years", "Was Whitney Houston broke when she died? Whitney was so full of life. 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. At the 1986 Grammy Awards, Houston was nominated for three awards, including Album of the Year. [52][53][54] In July 1986, Houston launched her first world tour, The Greatest Love World Tour, where she performed mainly in North America, Europe, Australia and Japan. I wasn't happy by that point in time. Then, Gary opens up about how their mother, Cissy Houston, is doing after the death of her only daughter. But Bobbi caused controversy when she announced her engagement to Nick Gordon - a man she previously considered her big brother. Houston's mainstream appeal allowed audiences to look past the interracial nature of her character's relationship with Costner's character. The Whitney Houston Foundation for Children, in particular, focused on helping children who suffered from HIV/AIDS, among other issues. Robert Christgau of The Village Voice called her contribution "one of the most gorgeous ballads you've ever heard".[35]. [162] Consequently, the album featured a range of contemporary R&B female recording artists along with Houston, such as Mary J. Blige, Brandy, Toni Braxton, Aretha Franklin and Patti LaBelle. 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. [314][315], According to representatives from Houston record label, Houston sold 3.7million albums and 4.3million singles worldwide in the first ten months of the year she died. The lawsuit claims that the How Will I Know hitmaker failed to pay the company for such management, which resulted in them suing her for $100 million. News of her death coincided with the 2012 Grammy Awards (which took place the day following her death), and was covered internationally. The latest: Whitney Houston's brother Gary Houston, 64, took the stage Tuesday in Atlanta on what would have been the late singer's 59th birthday, at an inaugural gala for The Whitney E. Houston . Houston earned $10million for the role, making her one of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood at the time and the highest-earning African-American actress in Hollywood. He did not cancel a scheduled performance, and within hours of his ex-wife's sudden death, an audience in Mississippi watched as Brown blew kisses skyward, tearfully saying: "I love you, Whitney. Much of Whitney's early life influenced her interest in music thanks to the singing career of her mother Cissy Houston. [174] The movie, with its all African-American cast, was a moderate success, earning about $50million at the U.S. box offices. In the finale of the ceremony, Kirk Franklin and the Family started their performance with "The Greatest Love of All". [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. The singer was worth $20 million at the time of her death, however, it was later revealed that she owed Sony music a whopping $20 million at the time. So, why did Houston file a lawsuit against the singer, and did she ever find it in her heart to forgive him? [373][374][375] She is also recognized as one of the most influential R&B artists in history. Five years earlier, in 1996, Houston became the second recipient of the BET Walk of Fame and was, at 32, the youngest to receive that honor. Best Known For: Whitney Houston was an American singer and actress whose first four albums, released between 1985 and 1992 . [183] The movie received seven Emmy nominations including Outstanding Variety, Musical or Comedy, while winning Outstanding Art Direction in a Variety, Musical or Comedy Special. [34] Houston recalled recording the song at just 16 years old. The story of their marriage was documented through the . [92], She then met R&B singer Bobby Brown at the 1989 Soul Train Music Awards. Whitney has been certified Diamond in the US for shipments of over ten million copies[69] and has sold a total of 20 million copies worldwide. [235][236], In late 2003, Houston released her first Christmas album One Wish: The Holiday Album, with a collection of traditional holiday songs. "An early 'I' in Whitney Houston's 'I Will Always Love You' takes nearly six seconds to sing. I don't have to mask my emotion in front of a room full of so many dear friends. On his 46th birthday, Bobby was joined by Gary Michael Houston, the nephew of his late ex-wife Whitney Houston.The father of five kids Bobbi Kristina, Landon, Laprincia, Bobby Jr., and Cassius was dressed comfortably in gray sweatpants . "[224] In a 2009 interview with Oprah Winfrey, Houston acknowledged that drug use had been the reason for her weight loss. [127][128] The single peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for a then-record-breaking 14 weeks, number one on the R&B chart for a then-record-breaking 11 weeks and number one on the Adult Contemporary charts for five weeks. I'm not ashamed of it. She was 22. [76][77] The success of the tours during 198687 and her two studio albums ranked Houston No. 2,021 53. [180] Their first project was a made-for-television remake of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella. Entertainment Weekly reported that Brown, 53, and his . Whitney Houston with father John and mother Cissy | Dirck Halstead/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images. The one-hour . 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. According to USA Today, Houston's $20 million estate was left to her daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, but after Whitney's only child died in 2015, the estate went to Cissy and Whitney's two . [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". [194][195] These singles became international hits as well and all the singles, except "When You Believe", became number one hits on the Billboard Hot Dance/Club Play chart. Her lifestyle choices had made her almost completely hoarse. (FILES) Dated October 11, 1998 filed photo shows one of the world's most popular US singer . [10] Her father, John Russell Houston Jr., was an ex-Army serviceman, a Newark city administrator who worked for then-Newark mayor Kenneth A. Gibson and a manager of the Sweet Inspirations. Now if you think I got that long, you think about it. Later in the program, following a montage of photos of musicians who died in 2011 with Houston singing "Saving All My Love for You" at the 1986 Grammys, Hudson paid tribute to Houston and the other artists by performing "I Will Always Love You". [146] Houston won the 1994 Grammy Award for Album of the Year for the soundtrack, becoming only the second African American woman to win in that category after Natalie Cole's Unforgettable with Love album. This is someone who was singing backup for her mom when she was 14 years old at nightclubs across the country. However, some black critics believed she was "selling out". [109], Later in 1991, Houston put together her Welcome Home Heroes concert with HBO for the soldiers fighting in the Persian Gulf War and their families. She later commented that she "sang [herself] out of [her] clothes". Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 February 11, 2012) was an American singer and actress. Birth City: Newark. Bobby has run afoul of the law multiple times, and has several arrests on his record. In a 1993 interview with Rolling Stone, Houston remarked that "people know who Whitney Houston is I'm black. 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. Rookie. You gotta understand at the time the 80s it was acceptable, he told Winfrey. [29][28][30] Following Houston's rise to fame, rumors began speculating that Houston and Crawford were lovers, which the two denied to the press during a 1987 interview for Time magazine. Her elder brother, Michael, was a songwriter, and her elder maternal half-brother is former basketball player and singer Gary Garland. [226] Within weeks, Houston's rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" was re-released after the September 11 attacks, with the proceeds donated to the New York Firefighters 9/11 Disaster Relief Fund and the New York Fraternal Order of Police. "Count On Me", a duet with CeCe Winans, hit the U.S. Top 10; and Houston's third contribution, "Why Does It Hurt So Bad", made the Top 30. [407] In October 2020, the music video for "I Will Always Love You" surpassed 1billion views on YouTube, making Houston the first solo 20th-century artist to have a video reach that milestone. [155] Houston placed in the top five of Entertainment Weekly's annual "Entertainer of the Year" ranking[156] and was labeled by Premiere magazine as one of the 100 most powerful people in Hollywood. With a grand run in mornings in Philly, plus a quite controversial exit from where you heard her last, Monie landed on the Flagship for hip Hop radio in Philly, Power 99 fm. "[358], Houston's vocal stylings have had a significant impact on the music industry. 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. [3][4] She is the only artist to have had seven consecutive number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100, from "Saving All My Love for You" in 1985 to "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" in 1988. Un-unh. [188] It had a funkier and edgier sound than past releases and saw Houston handling urban dance, hip hop, mid-tempo R&B, reggae, torch songs and ballads all with great dexterity. [347] The soundtrack includes reimagined remixes of some of Houston's classics and several newly discovered songs such as Houston's cover of CeCe Winans' "Don't Cry" (labeled as "Don't Cry for Me" on Houston's soundtrack) at the Commitment to Life AIDS benefit concert in Los Angeles in January 1994, remixed by house producer Sam Feldt. [238], In early 2004, Brown starred in his own reality TV program, Being Bobby Brown, on Bravo. [50] At the time, the album was the bestselling debut album by a solo artist. Their goal was "to show aspects of the lives of African-Americans that have not been brought to the screen before" while improving how African-Americans are portrayed in film and television. [346], On December 16, 2022, RCA released the soundtrack album to Houston's featured film biopic, titled, I Wanna Dance with Somebody (The Movie: Whitney New, Classic and Reimagined), to every digital download platform all over the world. It was reported that the company also negotiated her contract renewal with Arista Records in 2001, which resulted in a $100 million deal for the singer. [97] Houston's vocals were pre-recorded, prompting criticism. Chaka Khan, in an interview with CNN's Piers Morgan on February 13, 2012, shared that she felt the party should have been canceled, saying: "I thought that was complete insanity. Three weeks after its release, I Look to You went gold. "[102] Nevertheless, a commercial single and video of the performance reached the Top 20 on the US Hot 100, giving Houston the biggest chart hit for a performance of the national anthem (Jos Feliciano's version reached No. '"[249], Houston released her new album, I Look to You, in August 2009. Houston's "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)" became just the third single in music history to debut at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 after Michael Jackson's "You Are Not Alone" and Mariah Carey's "Fantasy". 10 Years After Whitney Houston's Death, the Singer's Estate Sees Quadruple Growth in Earnings. Bobbi Kristina became a reality television star and singer. [39] As a result, the album began to sell strongly and Houston continued promotion by touring nightclubs in the US. "For the past few years, there have been so many stories that have been told about her life that just did not connect with me . "[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. [276][277] The cause of death was not immediately known;[6][276] local police said there were "no obvious signs of criminal intent". From every run to every crescendoshe was in tune with what she could do with her voice and it's not something simple for a singereven a very talented oneto achieve. Her inheritance was placed in trust to be released in increments until she turned 30. Houston influenced many singers in popular music, and was known for her . Michael admitted that he feels extremely guilty about his sisters death, but says he didnt quite realize just how dangerous drugs could be when he started getting high with Whitney. Coming from a family of singers and surrounded by music; she pretty much had a formal education in music, just like someone who might attend a performing arts high school or major in voice in college. I do believe her life would have turned out differently, Cissy writes. This is someone who sang backup for Chaka Khan when she was only 17. 2, UK No. [2] Houston influenced many singers in popular music, and was known for her powerful, soulful vocals and vocal improvisation skills. Aug 25, 2021. But leading up to her accidental drowning, Whitney had battled addiction . Instead she was with someone who, like her, wanted to party. [217], Shortly thereafter, Houston was scheduled to perform at the Academy Awards, but was fired from the event by musical director and longtime friend Burt Bacharach. [42] Rolling Stone magazine praised Houston, calling her "one of the most exciting new voices in years" while The New York Times called the album "an impressive, musically conservative showcase for an exceptional vocal talent". [66] Still, the album enjoyed commercial success. [197] In 1999, Houston participated in VH-1's Divas Live '99, alongside Brandy, Mary J. Blige, Tina Turner and Cher. 2021, 7:00 AM. Even though Houston once signed a $100 million contract and sold over 200 . [312] The song mentions Houston's name in the opening lyrics, "I'm sorry, I'm not the most pretty, I'll never ever sing like Whitney", before going on to sample some of Houston's lyrics from "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" in the chorus. She is the first and only black artist to have three Diamond-certified albums. ! [59][60] The album's popularity would also carry over to the 1987 Grammy Awards, when "Greatest Love of All" would receive a Record of the Year nomination. Its painful I feel responsible for what I let go so far., The iconic singerdied in February 2012, and while theofficial cause of death was ruled to be accidental drowning, the Coroners office confirmed thatWhitney used cocaine immediately before her death, leading to a cardiac event.. Her death derailed production, which would have begun in 2002.[260][261][262]. 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