  Whitney Elizabeth Houston Brown
was born August 9, 1963 in Newark, NJ, the
daughter of Cissy Houston, a
successful rhythm-and-blues backup singer,
and a cousin of Dionne Warwick. Since her debut in
1985, Whitney has risen through the ranks of
pop diva to a level of musical respect few
artists can claim internationally. Whitney
has been singing since her days as a member
of the New Hope Baptist Junior Choir in
Newark where she was a soloist at the age of
11. Her rise to fame began in her teens in
the background as a backup singer for the
likes of Chaka
Khan, Lou Rawls,
and her mother. At the same time, Whitney
pursued a career in modeling. Whitney's first
introduction to a pop hit came in 1984 on a
duet with Teddy Pendergrass
called "Hold Me."
 # 202
Singles Artist of the Year
 # 14
Singles Artist of the Year
 Whitney signed with the Arista
label and released her debut LP, Whitney
Houston. Her first single, "You
Give Good Love" went Top 10, and was
followed by three #1 hits: "Saving
All My Love For You," "How Will I
Know," and "The Greatest Love of
All." The LP went on to sell over 12
million copies.
Whitney
Houston was certified gold.
Whitney hit the Top 40 with
"Saving
All My Love For You."
Whitney
Houston was certified platinum.
Whitney hit the Top
10
with with "Saving
All My Love For You."
Whitney
Houston was certified 2x platinum.
 # 8
Singles Artist of the Year
Whitney won 2 American Music
Awards for Favorite Soul/R&B Single ("You Give Good
Love") and Favorite Soul/R&B Video
("Saving
All My Love For You"), and was nominated for Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist, Favorite Soul/R&B Female
Artist,
Favorite Soul/R&B Female Video Artist,
and Favorite Soul/R&B
Album
(Whitney
Houston).
 Whitney won her first Grammy
Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance -
Female
("Saving
All My Love For You") and was also nominated
for Album of the Year (Whitney
Houston) and Best R&B Vocal
Performance - Female ("You Give Good
Love").
Whitney hit the Top
10 and
#1 with "How Will I Know."
Whitney
Houston was certified 3x platinum.
Whitney
Houston was certified 4x platinum.
Whitney hit the Top
10
with "Greatest Love Of All."
Whitney
Houston was certified 5x platinum.
Whitney hit #1 with
"Greatest Love Of All."
Whitney
Houston was certified 6x platinum.
Whitney also won 6 Billboard
Music Awards (Top Black Album and Top Pop
Album for Whitney
Houston, Top Black Album Artist, Top
Pop Album Artist, Top Pop Album Artist -
Female, and Top Pop Artist (combined LPs
& singles)) and Rolling Stone's
Top Album of the Year for Whitney
Houston.
Whitney
Houston was certified 7x platinum.
Whitney won her first Emmy Award
for Outstanding Individual Performance in a
Variety or Music Program (The 28th Annual
Grammy Awards).
The video for "How Will I
Know" won a MTV Video Music
Award for Best Female Video and was nominated for Best New Artist.
 # 3
Singles Artist of the Year
Whitney took home 5 American Music
Awards: Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist, Favorite Pop/Rock Album and Favorite Soul/R&B Album (Whitney
Houston), Favorite Soul/R&B Female
Artist,
and Favorite Soul/R&B Video ("The
Greatest Love Of All), and was nominated for
Favorite Pop/Rock Female Video Artist and
Favorite Soul/R&B Female Video Artist.
Whitney
Houston was certified 8x platinum.
Whitney was nominated for a Grammy Award for Record of the Year ("Greatest Love
Of All").
 Whitney's sophomore LP, Whitney continued her streak
of #1 hits, not only on the pop charts, but
with R&B and adult contemporary lists as
well. It was the first LP by a female artist
to debut on the LP charts at #1. The LP gave
Whitney four more #1 hits: "I Wanna
Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me),"
"Where Do Broken Hearts Go,"
"So Emotional," and "Didn't We
Almost Have It All." Whitney's voice was
heard on the radio throughout 1987 and 1988
with the additional singles "Love Will
Save The Day" and "One Moment In
Time" (a recording for an Olympics LP
compilation). The LP sold over 9 million
copies.
Whitney won a Billboard Music
Award for Top Album Artist - Female and a
People's Choice Award for Favorite Female
Musical Performer.
Whitney hit the Top
10 and
#1 (for 2 weeks) with "I Want To Dance
With Somebody (Who Loves Me)."
Whitney was certified 2x
platinum and the single "I Wanna Dance
With Somebody (Who Loves Me)" was
certified gold.
Whitney was certified 3x
platinum.
Whitney was certified 4x
platinum.
Whitney hit #1 with "Didn't
We Almost Have It All."
Whitney was certified 5x
platinum.
 # 5
Singles Artist of the Year (#1
Female Artist of the Year)
Whitney won 2 American Music
Awards for Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist and Favorite Pop/Rock Single ("I Wanna Dance
With Somebody (Who Loves Me)") and was
nominated for Favorite Soul/R&B Female
Artist.
Whitney won a Grammy
Award for Best Female Pop Vocal
Performance ("I Wanna Dance With
Somebody (Who Loves Me)") and was
nominated for Album of the Year (Whitney) and Best R&B Vocal
Performance - Female.
Whitney was certified 6x
platinum.
Whitney won another Emmy Award
for Outstanding Musical Performance in a
Sports Program (Special Olympics).
Whitney
Houston was certified 9x platinum.
Whitney was certified 9x
platinum.
Whitney won a Billboard Music
Award for Top Pop Singles Artist - Female.
 # 194
Singles Artist of the Year
In between making music, Whitney
formed the Whitney Houston Foundation For
Children. The non-profit organization works
to assist a variety of children's issues
including homelessness, cancer, AIDS, and
youth self-empowerment. Whitney also won a
People's Choice Award for Favorite Female
Musical Performer.
Whitney won 2 American Music
Awards for Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist and Favorite Soul/R&B Female
Artist.
The single "I Wanna Dance
With Somebody (Who Loves Me)" was
certified platinum.
Whitney was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal
Performance ("One Moment In
Time").
Whitney hit the Top 40 with Aretha Frankin with "It Isn't, It Wasn't, It
Ain't Never Gonna Be" from Aretha's LP Through
The Storm.
 # 63
Singles Artist of the Year
Whitney won 2 more American
Music Awards for Favorite Pop/Rock Female
Vocalist and Favorite Soul/R&B Female
Vocalist.
Whitney hit the Top 10 and #1 for 2 weeks with
"All The Man That I Need."
Whitney was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best R&B Vocal
Performance by a Duo or Group ("It Isn't, It Wasn't, It
Ain't Never Gonna Be" with Aretha Franklin).
Whitney hit the Top 40 with
"I'm Your Baby Tonight."
 Whitney released I'm
Your Baby Tonight and hit #1
with two more songs: "All The Man That I Need" and "I'm Your Baby Tonight." Although the LP
sold over 4 million copies in the U.S., the
LP was considered a disappointment.
A rendition of the "Star
Spangled Banner" from 1990's Super Bowl
also charted for Whitney.
I'm
Your Baby Tonight was certified gold.
Whitney hit the Top 10 with "I'm Your Baby Tonight."
Whitney hit #1 for a week with "I'm Your Baby Tonight."
 # 6
Singles Artist of the Year
Whitney hit the Top 40 with
"All The Man That I Need."
I'm
Your Baby Tonight was certified 2x
platinum.
Whitney hit the Top 10 and #1 for 2 weeks with
"All The Man That I Need."
Whitney was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal
Performance ("I'm Your Baby Tonight").
Whitney hit the Top 40 with her
live rendition of "The Star Spangled
Banner."
The single "All The Man That I Need" was certified
gold.
Whitney hit the Top 40 with
"Miracle."
The single for "The Star Spangled
Banner"
was certified gold.
I'm
Your Baby Tonight was certified 3x
platinum.
Whitney hit the Top 10 with "Miracle."
Whitney hit the Top 40 with
"My Name Is Not Susan."
 # 73
Singles Artist of the Year
Whitney was
nominated for 5 American Music
Awards for Favorite Soul/R&B Female
Artist,
Favorite Soul/R&B
Female Artist, Favorite Adult Contemporary
Artist,
Favorite Soul/R&B
Album,
and Favorite Adult
Contemporary Album (I'm
Your Baby Tonight).
Whitney was nominated for a Grammy
Award for Best Female Pop Vocal
Performance ("All The Man That I Need").
Whitney married Bobby
Brown.
 Whitney also focused her
professional attention to the movies and
starred opposite Kevin Costner in The
Bodyguard. The movie grossed
over $400 million worldwide and the
soundtrack became one of the best-selling LPs
of all-time, selling over 16 million copies.
The soundtrack provided us with Whitney's 3
biggest #1 hits: "I Have Nothing," a remake of Chaka
Khan's "I'm Every Woman," and a remake of
Dolly Parton's
"I Will Always Love You" which spent a
remarkable 11 weeks at #1 on the ARC. "I Will Always Love You" became the
largest selling commercial single in history
(an achievement displaced by Elton
John's "Candle In The Wind
1997").
Whitney hit the Top 40 and Top 10 with "I Will Always Love You."
Whitney topped the Billboard Hot
100 for 14 weeks, the Top Singles Sales chart
for 14 weeks, and the Top 40 Radio Monitor
chart for 11 weeks with "I Will Always Love You."
 Whitney hit #1 for 11 weeks with
"I Will Always Love You."
The single "I Will Always Love You" was certified 3x
platinum.
Whitney topped the Billboard
R&B Singles chart for 11 weeks and the
Adult Contemporary Singles chart for 5 weeks
with "I Will Always Love You."
Whitney topped the Billboard LP
chart for 20 weeks and the Top R&B Albums
chart for 8 weeks with The
Bodyguard soundtrack.
 # 1
Singles Artist of the Year (# 1
Female Artist of the Year)
Whitney hit the Top 40 and Top 10 with "I'm Every Woman."
The
Bodyguard soundtrack was certified 6x
platinum and the single "I Will Always Love You" was certified 4x
platinum.
 Whitney hit the Top 40 with
"I Have Nothing."
Whitney was nominated for a Grammy
Award for Best R&B Vocal
Performance - Female ("I Belong To You").
Whitney topped the Billboard Hot
Dance Music Club Play chart for 2 weeks with
"I'm Every Woman."
The
Bodyguard soundtrack was certified 7x
platinum.
Whitney gave birth to her 1st
child, Bobbi Kristina.
Whitney hit the Top 10 with "I Have Nothing" and #1 for a week with "I'm Every Woman."
Whitney topped the Billboard Top
40 Radio Monitor chart for 6 weeks with
"I Have Nothing."
 The single "I'm Every Woman" was certified
gold.
Whitney hit #1 for 4 weeks with
"I Have Nothing."
Whitney topped the Billboard Hot
Dance Music Maxi-Singles Sales chart for 2
weeks with "I'm Every Woman."
The
Bodyguard soundtrack was certified 8x
platinum.
Whitney topped the Billboard Top
Adult Contemporary Single chart for 2 weeks
with "I Have Nothing."
Whitney was certified 7x
platinum. The single "I Have Nothing" was certified
gold.
Whitney also won a MTV Movie
Award for Best Song ("I Will Always Love You") and a People's
Choice Award for Favorite Female Musical
Performer.
Whitney hit the Top 40 with
"Run To You."
The
Bodyguard soundtrack was certified 9x
platinum.
Whitney hit the Top 10 with "Run To You."
 The
Bodyguard soundtrack was certified 10x
platinum.
Whitney hit the Top 40 with Bobby
Brown with "Something In Common" from Bobby
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