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Darlene Love, lead vocalist of the 1960 girl group The Blossoms, was her godmother.[([[https:// | Darlene Love, lead vocalist of the 1960 girl group The Blossoms, was her godmother.[([[https:// | ||
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+ | ===== Cousins ===== | ||
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+ | Houston is Dionne Warwick' | ||
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+ | ===== Nippy ===== | ||
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+ | Nippy Inc., Houston' | ||
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+ | ===== Growing Up ===== | ||
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+ | After the 1967 Newark riots, Houston' | ||
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+ | ===== Aretha Franklin ===== | ||
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+ | Houston met Aretha Franklin in a recording studio in the early 1970s when she was just 9 or 10 years old. Their families' | ||
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+ | ===== First Solo Performance ===== | ||
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+ | Houston made her first solo musical performance when she was 11 years old, in 1973. She performed "Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah" | ||
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+ | ===== Parents' | ||
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+ | ===== I'm Every Woman ===== | ||
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+ | Houston had the opportunity to perform backup vocals on Chaka Khan's classic 1978 single " | ||
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+ | ===== Back-up Vocals ===== | ||
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+ | Houston also did backup vocals on recordings by Jermaine Jackson and Lou Rawls when she was a teenager.[([[https:// | ||
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+ | ===== Mount Saint Dominic Academy ===== | ||
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+ | Houston attended Mount Saint Dominic Academy, a Catholic girls' high school in Caldwell, NJ, from 1978 to 1981.[([[https:// | ||
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+ | ===== Bisexual ===== | ||
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+ | Houston met her best friend, Robyn Crawford. The two were housemates and secret lovers, but Houston halted the relationship because she was afraid of how others would respond. The two remained close, and Crawford went on to become Houston' | ||
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+ | ===== Modelling ===== | ||
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+ | A photographer observed Houston while she was performing with her mother at Carnegie Hall in the early 1980s and offered her modeling job. Houston went on to appear in a number of women' | ||
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+ | ===== Commercials ===== | ||
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+ | Houston also appeared in various television ads. Her debut advertisement was for Canada Dry ginger ale. She later appeared in advertisements for Dr. Pepper, Coca-Cola, Sanyo, and AT& | ||
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+ | ===== Cosby Show ===== | ||
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+ | Houston declined a chance to appear on The Cosby Show because she preferred to be a singer rather an actor.[([[https:// | ||
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+ | ===== Record Deal ===== | ||
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+ | Gerry Griffith, an Arista Records A&R executive, witnessed Houston sing with her mother in a New York nightclub in 1983. He persuaded his employer at Arista Records, Clive Davis, to attend one of her upcoming gigs. Davis was so taken by Houston that he signed her to a record deal and was the driving force behind her meteoric climb to prominence.[([[https:// | ||
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+ | ===== The Merv Griffin Show ===== | ||
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+ | Clive Davis took Houston on The Merv Griffin Show in 1983 to make her national television debut. She sang " | ||
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+ | ===== Michael Jackson ===== | ||
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+ | Did Michael Jackson have a relationship with Whitney Houston? His brother, though, did. Jermaine Jackson produced and sang duets with Whitney Houston on her debut album in 1984. Jackson was married at the time, but he had an affair with Houston while recording the song. They remained excellent friends after the affair.[([[https:// | ||
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+ | ===== Debut Album Hit ===== | ||
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+ | Whitney Houston (1985), Houston' | ||
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+ | ===== Rolling Stone Greatest ===== | ||
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+ | Her debut album was named one of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" by Rolling Stone.[([[https:// | ||
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+ | ===== MTV ===== | ||
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+ | Houston said in a 2001 MTV interview that MTV consistently rebuffed her organization' | ||
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+ | ===== First Grammy ===== | ||
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+ | In 1986, she received her first Grammy for the song " | ||
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+ | ===== I Just Can't Stop Loving You ===== | ||
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+ | Michael Jackson requested that Whitney Houston record "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" with him in 1987. His plea was turned down.[([[https:// | ||
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+ | ===== Whitney ===== | ||
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+ | Whitney (1987), Houston' | ||
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+ | ===== Great Success ===== | ||
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+ | Whitney Houston' | ||
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+ | ===== Billboard Hot 100 ===== | ||
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+ | Whitney Houston is the only artist to have seven consecutive Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles: " | ||
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+ | ===== It Isn't, It Wasn' | ||
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+ | Aretha Franklin and Whitney Houston released the duet "It Isn't, It Wasn' |