WHITNEY HOUSTON
Whitney Houston was born into a musical family on 9th August 1963 in East Orange, New Jersey where she also grew up. Whitney and first began singing in the Baptist church. When she was a teenager she sang backup for Lou Rawls and Chaka Khan and worked as a model.
She broke into the music industry in 1985 when she signed a record contract with Arista Records and produced her self-titled album, WHITNEY HOUSTON. She received her first Grammy Award for one of the songs, "Saving All My Love for You." Her second album, WHITNEY, was the first album by a female artist to enter the charts at number one. Houston has since received numerous Grammys, and became the first performer to have seven consecutive number one singles on the BILLBOARD magazine pop-music charts. She has also worked as an actress in THE BODYGUARD and WAITING TO EXHALE.
Houston established The Whitney Houston Foundation for Children.
Now, she has published her new album called “I Look to You”.
