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   Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012) was an American singer and actress. Known as " the Voice ", she is one of the most awarded entertainers and one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with sales of over 220 million records worldwide. [1][2] Houston's crossover appeal on the popular music charts and her ...

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3. www.youtube.com › watchWhitney Houston - Star Spangled-Banner - YouTube

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   Feb 13, 2012 · Among the annals of national anthems as a prelude to sporting events, few have topped the one delivered by Whitney Houston before Super Bowl XXV in 1991 in T...

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4. www.britannica.com › biography › Whitney-HoustonWhitney Houston | Biography, Songs, Albums, Death, & Facts ...

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   6 days ago · Whitney Houston (born August 9, 1963, Newark, New Jersey, U.S.—died February 11, 2012, Beverly Hills, California) was an American singer and actress who was one of the best-selling musical performers of the 1980s and ’90s. Her remarkable vocal ability and exceptional emotive power became the standard of excellence by which all other female ...

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   • Whitney Houston was a Grammy Award-winning singer and actress who was one of the best-selling musical performers of the 1980s and 1990s. Her debut...
   • Whitney Houston made her motion-picture debut in 1992 in The Bodyguard. The film featured her rendition of Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You,”...
   • Whitney Houston was found dead in a bathtub at a Beverly Hills hotel on February 11, 2012. A coroner’s report stated that the cause of death was ac...
   • Whitney Houston was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2020.
   • Whitney Houston won her first Grammy Award for the single "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" from Whitney (1987).

5. www.biography.com › musicians › whitney-houstonWhitney Houston - Songs, Daughter & Death - Biography

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   May 3, 2021 · Whitney Houston was an American singer and actress whose first four albums, released between 1985 and 1992, amassed global sales in excess of 86 million copies.

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6. www.vox.com › 22533388 › whitney-houston-americanWhitney Houston, American girl - Vox

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   Jul 8, 2021 · Whitney was allowed to stand for America, to be Miss Black America, to be America’s sweetheart, because her body was America’s property. In 2012, Houston was found dead in a hotel bathtub with ...

7. www.blackpast.org › african-american-historyWhitney Houston (1964-2012) - Blackpast

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   Feb 23, 2012 · Watch on. Whitney Houston, singer and actress, sold close to 100 million albums worldwide during her lifetime. Her recognitions include two Emmy Awards, five Grammy Awards, 19 American Music Awards, five People’s Choice Awards, five Soul Train Awards, and seven NAACP Image Awards. Houston was born in Newark, New Jersey on August 9, 1963.

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   Is Whitney Houston still alive?

   • Whitney Houston (born August 9, 1963, Newark, New Jersey, U.S.—died February 11, 2012, Beverly Hills, California) was an American singer and actress who was one of the best-selling musical performers of the 1980s and ’90s. Whitney Houston Whitney Houston, 1988.

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   Was Whitney Houston America?

   • The idea from the peak of her career, the idea that Whitney Houston was America, had come back to life. But it wasn’t Whitney Houston the person, who was America now, as Houston’s career plummeted. It wasn’t even Whitney Houston the pop star, or Whitney Houston the symbol. It came to seem, instead, that Houston’s voice was America.

   Whitney Houston, American girl - Vox

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   How many Grammys did Whitney Houston win?

   • Whitney Houston, singer and actress, sold close to 100 million albums worldwide during her lifetime. Her recognitions include two Emmy Awards, five Grammy Awards, 19 American Music Awards, five People’s Choice Awards, five Soul Train Awards, and seven NAACP Image Awards. Houston was born in Newark, New Jersey on August 9, 1963.

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   Is Whitney Houston considered a superstar?

   • Whitney Houston is considered a superstar, having sold more than 170 million combined album, singles and videos worldwide during her career with Arista Records. She is a singer's singer who has influenced countless other vocalists.

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   Was Whitney Houston a black woman?

   • Whitney Houston was America, and she was also Black. She was the Black America’s sweetheart, the Black Miss America, the Black all-American girl. She saw the rules she had to follow to make it big in pop music as a Black woman, and she followed them so well that she beat the Beatles and she beat the Elvises.

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   Who is Whitney Houston in American Dad?

   • Introducing her as “America’s sweetheart, Whitney Houston,” American Dad depicts Whitney as a desperate addict who’s been robbed of all her dignity. In the scene, Whitney is being bribed into a private performance of her 1985 smash hit “The Greatest Love of All” for a white married couple.

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9. www.oprah.com › oprahshow › whitney-houston-biographyWhitney Houston Biography - Oprah.com

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   Aug 19, 2009 · In the aftermath of the World Trade Center disaster of September 11, 2001, Whitney's soaring rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" (from Greatest Hits) was the first benefit single to be issued, coupled with her version of "America the Beautiful." The Whitney Houston Foundation for Children, Inc. and Arista Records agreed to donate royalties ...