Whitney Houston(惠特尼.休斯頓)

Whitney Houston 由崛起到現(xiàn)在，不過17個年頭，出色的音樂天賦，獨特的氣質(zhì)，堅強的個性，使成為國際巨星。她屹立歌壇，涉足電影，引領(lǐng)時尚，不斷將自己推向一個又一個的高降,是每個星夢者的目標(biāo)。
Whitney 1985 年推出首張大碟，雖然當(dāng)時唱片封面上的 whitney 是十分土著的黑人打扮，但人們從“Saving all my for you”的MTV看到了她的表演潛質(zhì)。并完全為她寬廣的音域、飽滿的聲音所傾倒。銷量是14，000，000張。
1987年 Whitney 推出同名大碟，這時的她以自信成熟姿態(tài)出現(xiàn)，在活躍輕松的“I wanna dance with somebody”和節(jié)奏強勁的“Emotion”大獲全勝之余，溫柔的慢板作品完全呈現(xiàn)了她作為黑人獨有的soul靈音樂氣質(zhì)，是她歌路的延展和補足。
隨后的幾張唱片成績并不理想。Whitney知道要在歌壇上再次閃爍光芒，需要等待機會。這機會終于來臨了，與勁敵 Mariah Carey聯(lián)手配唱電影插曲“When you believe”。Whitney 與 Mariah的不和是人所皆知的， 不單因為兩人是音域?qū)拸V、善唱高音的對手，更多的因為大家處世辦事的迥異。 為了市場的利益在唱片公司的說服下，兩大巨星破天方第一次也可能是只此一次的合作，成績是肯定的。
跟上潮流，永不落伍是樂壇長青的要訣， Whitney 深懂得這一點。近年的歌壇是黑人音樂的天下，Lauryn Hill獨攬也多個格林美音樂大獎， 一下子點醒了 Whitney。雖然 Lauryn 是音樂才華橫溢，但 Whitney 與她除了聲線的差異外，有哪一點不如她？天生的靈曲感覺，加上多年累積的明星效應(yīng)就不信玩不轉(zhuǎn)�！拔乙�再次成功” Whitney 堅定地說。于是我們見到了這張專輯“My Love is your love”，雖然里面了那首“When you believe”， 你會發(fā)覺該曲動聽的旋律與整個專輯重視節(jié)奏、忽視旋律的做法是格格不入， 無他，那就是潮流。
美國時間2012年2月11日下午3點55在Beverly Hilton酒店被宣布死亡。死因尚未清楚。
惠特妮·休斯頓(英文名：Whitney Houston)是位曾獲得格萊美獎的美國R&B歌手、演員、作曲家、電影制作人與并曾擔(dān)任模特。她以強而有力的嗓音、一字多轉(zhuǎn)音的感染力與寬廣的音域為世人所熟知，并成為流行天后�；萏啬菰谌�世界有超過一億八千萬張專輯的銷售紀(jì)錄。根據(jù)吉尼斯世界紀(jì)錄，惠特妮是獲獎最多的女歌手(獲獎415次，提名562次)。
死因：惠特尼被發(fā)現(xiàn)死于浴缸中 可能溺死
據(jù)國外媒體TMZ消息，惠特尼休斯頓去世時被發(fā)現(xiàn)死于浴缸中，因此有溺死的可能。警方搜查惠特尼的房間發(fā)現(xiàn)有各種藥瓶，暫無發(fā)現(xiàn)違禁藥品。此外，也沒發(fā)現(xiàn)惠特尼房內(nèi)飲酒證據(jù)�，F(xiàn)在遺體已經(jīng)被運出房間，將被送往停尸間鑒定死因。
家人：惠特尼女兒與警方起沖突
惠特尼的女兒bobbi kristina和警方起了很大的爭執(zhí)。警方封鎖了她母親的房間，在她趕到時，她已經(jīng)不被允許進入母親的房間，而傷痛，憤怒的她，對著警察大叫。
前夫聞噩耗泣不成聲
惠特尼·休斯頓的前夫鮑比·布朗聽聞她去世的消息后泣不成聲，他自己的樂隊New Edition的成員正在安撫他的情緒。
【各界緬懷】
格萊美官方發(fā)聲明悼念
關(guān)于惠特尼·休斯頓的不幸辭世，格萊美獎的舉辦方美國錄音藝術(shù)科學(xué)院(Recording Academy)也已經(jīng)正式發(fā)文進行哀悼。哀悼聲明中寫道：“6次格萊美獎獲得者惠特尼·休斯頓是這個世界上最偉大的流行歌手之一，過去的30年間，她那強有力的聲音給人留下了很多難忘的時刻，留下了很多屢獲殊榮的歌曲。今天，我們音樂界的一盞明燈熄滅了，我們向她的家人、朋友、歌迷以及所有被她美妙歌聲所感動的人，致以最深切的慰問�！�
眾星微博懷念一代歌后
惠特妮·休斯頓去世在歐美樂壇引發(fā)了巨大的震動，賈斯汀·比伯、克里斯蒂娜·阿奎萊拉、蕾哈娜、瑪麗亞·凱莉、妮琪·米娜、伊娃、薩頂頂、譚詠麟等知名歌手和各界名人也通過微博第一時間悼念她。
“絕望主婦”伊娃·朗格利亞：(聽到惠特妮·休斯頓去世的消息)“我的心都碎了�！�
瑪麗亞·凱莉(Mariah Carey)：“我真心地向惠特尼的家人和她的百萬粉絲們表示深深的遺憾。她美妙震撼大地的聲音將永遠(yuǎn)長留我們心中�！�
賈斯汀·比伯(justin bieber)說：“我剛剛聽到這個消息。實在是太不可思議了。世上最美妙的聲音之一剛剛離我們而去了。深切悼念惠特尼休斯頓。我為她的朋友和家人祈禱�！�
薩頂頂：“whitney houston去世了，死因不明，醫(yī)生說她長期濫用藥物，實在悲哀！樂壇的遺憾！”
張靚穎：“又一段歌聲隨風(fēng)而不去，懸浮于塵世，回蕩在記憶中...”
譚詠麟：“R.I.P.Whitney Houston 。We'll always love you！”
Whitney Houston is inarguably one of the of the biggest female pop stars of all time. Her accomplishments as a hitmaker are 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. 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. 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. The shadow of Houston's prodigious technique still looms large over nearly every pop diva and smooth urban soul singer — male or female — in her wake, and spawned a legion of imitators (despite some critics' complaints about over-singing). Always more of a singles artist, Houston largely shied away from albums during the '90s, releasing the bulk of her most popular material on the soundtracks of films in which she appeared. By the end of the decade, she'd gone several years without a true blockbuster, yet her status as an icon was hardly diminished.
Whitney Elizabeth Houston was born in Newark, NJ, on August 9, 1963; her mother was gospel/R&B singer Cissy Houston, and her cousin was Dionne Warwick. 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. Houston also pursued modeling and acting, appearing on the sitcoms Gimme a Break and Silver Spoons. Somewhat bizarrely, Houston's first recording as a featured vocalist was with Bill Laswell's experimental jazz-funk ensemble Material; their 1982 album One Down placed Houston alongside such unlikely avant-gardists as Archie Shepp and Fred Frith. The following year, Arista president Clive Davis heard Houston singing at a nightclub and offered her a record contract. Her first single appearance was a duet with Teddy Pendergrass, "Hold Me," which missed the Top 40 in 1984.
Houston's debut album, Whitney Houston, was released in March 1985. Its first single, "Someone for Me," was a flop, but the second try, "You Give Good Love," became Houston's first hit, topping the R&B charts and hitting number three pop. Houston's next three singles — the Grammy-winning romantic ballad "Saving All My Love for You," the brightly danceable "How Will I Know," and the inspirational "The Greatest Love of All" — all topped the pop charts, and a year to the month after its release, Whitney Houston hit number one on the album charts. It eventually sold over 13 million copies, making it the best-selling debut ever by a female artist. Houston cemented her superstar status on her next album, Whitney; despite the unimaginative title, it became the first album by a female artist to debut at number one, and sold over nine million copies. Its first four singles — "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" (another Grammy winner), "Didn't We Almost Have It All," "So Emotional," and "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" — all hit number one, an amazing, record-setting run of seven straight (broken by "Love Will Save the Day"). In late 1988, Houston scored a Top Five hit with the non-LP single "One Moment in Time," recorded for an Olympics-themed compilation 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 two number one hits in the title track and "All the Man That I Need." But the quality of the material was generally viewed as, overall, much weaker than her previous efforts, and following those two hits, sales of the album tapered off quickly, halting around four million copies. Nevertheless, Houston remained so popular that she could even take a recording of "The Star Spangled Banner" (performed at the Super Bowl) into the pop Top 20 — though, of course, the Gulf War had something to do with that. In retrospect, the erratic quality of I'm Your Baby Tonight seemed to signal Houston's declining interest in making fully fleshed-out albums. Instead, she began to focus on an acting career, which she hadn't pursued since her teenage years; she also married singer 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 well at the box office, helped by an ad campaign which seemingly 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 undoubtedly helped "I Will Always Love You" become the biggest single in pop music history. It set new records for sales (nearly five million copies) and weeks at number one (14), although those were later broken by Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 1997" and Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men's "One Sweet Day," respectively. Meanwhile, the soundtrack eventually sold an astounding 16 million copies, and also won a Grammy for Album of the Year.
Once Houston had stopped raking in awards and touring the world, she prepared her next theatrical release, the female ensemble drama Waiting to Exhale. A few months before its release at the end of 1995, it was announced that she and Brown had split up; however, they called off the split just a couple months later, and rumors about their tempestuous relationship filled the tabloids for years to come. Waiting to Exhale was released toward the end of the year, and the first single from the soundtrack, "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)," topped the charts; the album sold over seven million copies. For her next project, Houston decided to return to her gospel roots; the soundtrack to the 1996 film The Preacher's Wife, which naturally featured Houston in the title role, was loaded with traditional and contemporary gospel songs, plus guest appearances by Houston's mother, Shirley Caesar, and the Georgia Mass Choir. Houston also began making headlines for what appeared to be increasing unreliability, cancelling several TV and concert appearances due to illness.
In 1998, Houston finally issued a new full-length album, My Love Is Your Love, her first in eight years. Houston worked with pop/smooth soul mainstays like Babyface and David Foster, but also 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, but it received Houston's most enthusiastic reviews in quite some time. Moreover, it produced one of her biggest R&B chart hits (seven weeks at number one) in the trio number "Heartbreak Hotel," done with Faith Evans and Kelly Price. She also duetted with Mariah Carey on "When You Believe," a song from the animated film The Prince of Egypt. Unfortunately, Houston was also back in the tabloids in early 2000; she was arrested in Hawaii when airline authorities reportedly found marijuana in her luggage (the charges were later dismissed). Speculation about Houston's personal life only grew when she was dropped from the Academy Awards telecast that March, officially because of a sore throat, but reputedly due to poor rehearsals and a generally out-of-it air. Later in the year, Arista released the two-disc compilation Greatest Hits, which actually featured one disc of hits and one of remixes; it also included new duets with Enrique Iglesias, George Michael, and Deborah Cox. It was also announced that Houston had signed a new deal with Arista worth $100 million, requiring six albums from the singer. Her personal issues became even more public through the reality television series Being Bobby Brown, and she eventually divorced her husband and went into intense rehabilitation. An album of new material was set for release by the end of 2007.