![]() ![]() ![]() By age 11, Houston was performing as a soloist in the junior gospel choir at her Baptist church as a teenager, she began accompanying her mother in concert (as well as on the 1978 album Think It Over), and went on to back artists like Lou Rawls and Chaka Khan. Whitney Elizabeth Houston was born in Newark, New Jersey, on Augher mother was gospel/R&B singer Cissy Houston, and her cousin was Dionne Warwick. The shadow of Houston's prodigious technique still looms large over nearly every pop diva and smooth urban soul singer who has followed, and spawned a legion of imitators. Like many of the original soul singers, Houston was trained in gospel before moving into secular music over time, she developed a virtuosic singing style given over to swooping, flashy melodic embellishments. Houston was able to handle big adult contemporary ballads, effervescent, stylish dance-pop, and slick urban contemporary soul with equal dexterity the result was an across-the-board appeal that was matched by scant few artists of her era, and helped her become one of the first black artists to find success on MTV in Michael Jackson's wake. Her accomplishments as a hitmaker were extraordinary just to scratch the surface, she became the first artist ever to have seven consecutive singles hit number one, and her 1993 Dolly Parton cover "I Will Always Love You" became nothing less than the biggest hit single in rock history. Whitney Houston was inarguably one of the biggest female pop stars of all time. ![]()
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