Artist: Whitney Houston
Genre(s):
Pop
Dance: Pop
Soundtrack
Discography:
The Ultimate Collection
Year: 2007
Tracks: 18
One Wish: The Holiday Album
Year: 2003
Tracks: 11
Just Whitney
Year: 2002
Tracks: 19
Love, Whitney
Year: 2001
Tracks: 16
My Love Is Your Love
Year: 1998
Tracks: 13
The Preacher's Wife
Year: 1996
Tracks: 15
Grace and Glory
Year: 1993
Tracks: 15
The Bodyguard
Year: 1992
Tracks: 16
I'm Your Baby Tonight
Year: 1990
Tracks: 11
Whitney
Year: 1987
Tracks: 11
Whitney Houston
Year: 1985
Tracks: 10
You Give Good Love
Year:
Tracks: 10
Waiting To Exhale
Year:
Tracks: 16
The Greatest Hits (CD 1) (Cool Down)
Year:
Tracks: 18
Whitney Houston is inarguably one of the of the biggest female pop stars of all time. Her accomplishments as a hitmaker ar extraordinary; merely to scratching the surface, she became the number 1 artist ever to take 7 sequent singles hit number unitary, and her 1993 Dolly Parton cover "I Will Always Love You" became cypher less than the biggest hit single in stone story. Houston was able-bodied to wield big grownup modern-day ballads, effervescent, fashionable dance-pop, and slickness urban contemporary soulfulness with equalize manual dexterity; the resultant was an wide appeal that was matched by scant few artists of her earned run average, and helped her suit one of the number one black artists to find success on MTV in Michael Jackson's wake up. Like many of the original soul singers, Houston was trained in gospel earlier moving into secular euphony; all over clock time, she developed a virtuosic singing style granted over to swooping, gimcrack melodic embellishments. The phantom of Houston's exceeding technique static looms magnanimous over nearly every pop prima donna and smooth urban psyche vocaliser -- male or female -- in her wake, and spawned a horde of imitators (despite some critics' complaints about over-singing). Always more of a singles artist, Houston largely shied away from albums during the '90s, cathartic the bulk of her to the highest degree pop material on the soundtracks of films in which she appeared. By the conclusion of the decade, she'd bygone several age without a true smash hit, yet her status as an icon was hardly diminished.
Mount Whitney Elizabeth Houston was born in Newark, NJ, on August 9, 1963; her mother was gospel/R&B singer Cissy Houston, and her first cousin was Dionne Warwick. By age 11, Houston was playing as a soloist in the junior gospel truth choir at her Baptist church; as a adolescent, she began resultant her mother in concert (as good as on the 1978 album Cogitate It Over), and went on to back artists like Lou Rawls and Chaka Khan. Houston besides pursued mold and performing, appearance on the sitcoms Gimme a Break and Silver Spoons. Somewhat bizarrely, Houston's first recording as a featured vocalizer was with Bill Laswell's experimental jazz-funk ensemble Material; their 1982 album Unitary Down set Houston aboard such unlikely avant-gardists as Archie Shepp and Fred Frith. The following year, Arista president Clive Davis heard Houston singing at a club and offered her a record compress. Her first single appearance was a span with Teddy Pendergrass, "Hold Me," which lost the Top 40 in 1984.
Houston's debut record album, Whitney Houston, was released in March 1985. Its first single, "Someone for Me," was a fizzle, only the second gear judge, "You Give Good Love," became Houston's first hit, topping the R&B charts and striking number tercet bolt down. Houston's following triplet singles -- the Grammy-winning romanticistic lay "Delivery All My Love for You," the bright danceable "How Will I Know," and the inspirational "The Greatest Love of All" -- all topped the pop charts, and a year to the calendar month after its acquittance, Whitney Houston hit number one on the album charts. It finally sold over 13 one thousand thousand copies, making it the best-selling debut e'er by a female artist. Houston cemented her wiz position on her side by side album, Whitney; contempt the sterile title, it became the starting time album by a female creative person to debut at figure one, and sold over club trillion copies. Its first quaternity singles -- "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (World Health Organization Loves Me)" (some other Grammy winner), "Didn't We Almost Have It All," "So Emotional," and "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" -- all hit telephone number one, an amazing, record-setting run of seven-spot straight (broken by "Love Will Save the Day"). In late 1988, Houston scored a Top Five dispatch with the non-LP single "One Moment in Time," recorded for an Olympics-themed compilation record album.
Houston returned with her third album, I'm Your Baby Tonight, in 1990; a more urban-sounding, R&B-oriented record, it immediately spun off deuce number one hits in the title track and "All the Man That I Need." But the character of the material was broadly speaking viewed as, overall, much weaker than her previous efforts, and following those deuce hits, gross revenue of the album narrowing sour speedily, halting about four-spot million copies. Nevertheless, Houston remained so popular that she could regular carry a recording of "The Star Spangled Banner" (performed at the Super Bowl) into the pop Top 20 -- though, of row, the Gulf War had something to do with that. In retrospect, the wandering quality of I'm Your Baby Tonight seemed to signal Houston's declining interest in making in full full-clad albums. Instead, she began to stress on an performing career, which she hadn't chased since her teenage age; she besides married vocaliser Bobby Brown in the summer of 1992. Her first feature film, a romance with Kevin Costner called The Bodyguard, was released in late 1992; it performed substantially at the box role, helped by an ad campaign which apparently centered around the climactic key change in Houston's soundtrack recording of the Dolly Parton-penned "I Will Always Love You." In fact, the ad campaign doubtlessly helped "I Will Always Love You" suit the biggest single in pop music history. It set modern records for sales (virtually quint gazillion copies) and weeks at issue one (14), although those were afterwards broken by Elton John's "Candela in the Wind 1997" and Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men's "One Sweet Day," severally. Meanwhile, the soundtrack finally sold an dumbfounding 16 jillion copies, and also south Korean won a Grammy for Album of the Year.
In one case Houston had stopped up raking in awards and touring the humanity, she prepared her next theatrical going, the female ensemble drama Wait to Exhale. A few months ahead its vent at the end of 1995, it was announced that she and Brown had split up; however, they called off the stock split just a couple months by and by, and rumors around their wild kinship filled the tabloids for years to come. Waiting to Exhale was released toward the end of the class, and the showtime individual from the soundtrack, "Emanate (Shoop Shoop)," topped the charts; the album sold over seven-spot gazillion copies. For her next project, Houston decided to retort to her gospel roots; the soundtrack to the 1996 photographic film The Preacher's Wife, which naturally featured Houston in the title role, was fuddled with traditional and contemporary gospel singing songs, asset guest appearances by Houston's mother, Shirley Caesar, and the Georgia Mass Choir. Houston too began devising headlines for what appeared to be increasing unreliability, cancelling several TV and concert appearances imputable to malady.
In 1998, Houston eventually issued a modern full-length album, My Love Is Your Love, her first in eight days. Houston worked with pop/smooth soul mainstays wish Babyface and David Foster, simply besides recruited hip-hop stars like Missy Elliott, Wyclef Jean, Lauryn Hill, and Q-Tip. The album sold even fewer copies than I'm Your Baby Tonight, simply it received Houston's to the highest degree enthusiastic reviews in quite some time. Moreover, it produced one of her biggest R&B chart hits (seven-spot weeks at number one) in the trio number "Heartbreak Hotel," done with Faith Evans and Kelly Price. She too duetted with Mariah Carey on "When You Believe," a call from the animated film The Prince of Egypt. Unfortunately, Houston was too back in the tabloids in other 2000; she was arrested in Hawaii when airway government reportedly ground cannabis in her luggage (the charges were by and by dismissed). Speculation around Houston's personal life only grew when she was dropped from the Academy Awards telecast that March, officially because of a raw throat, merely reputedly due to poor rehearsals and a generally out-of-it line. Later in the year, Arista released the two-disc compiling Greatest Hits, which actually featured one disk of hits and one of remixes; it also included new duets with Enrique Iglesias, George Michael, and Deborah Cox. It was too announced that Houston had sign a modern deal with Arista worth $100 million, requiring captain Hicks albums from the singer. Her personal issues became even more public through the realism television series Organism Bobby Brown, and she eventually divorced her married man and went into intense renewal. An album of modern material was set for spillage by the end of 2007.
