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Whitney Houston

R&B

1980s - 2000s

Despite constant controversy, the soulful diva with the elastic voice was one of pop's top sellers from the 1980s onward.

Biography

Whitney Houston was inarguably one of the biggest female pop stars of all time. 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 in America, 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. Her death in 2012 at the age of 48 was as untimely and tragic as that of Michael Jackson's two years earlier. ~ Steve Huey

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Artists Influenced by Whitney Houston

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