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(26,117 posts)Ptah
(33,057 posts)pokerfan
(27,677 posts)Regarded as one of the most celebrated female acts of all time, Houston also enjoyed success acting in films such as The Bodyguard and Waiting to Exhale.
But her later career was overshadowed by drug use and her turbulent marriage to singer Bobby Brown.
The peak of her success came with a string of hits in the 80s and early 90s.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-17001548
applegrove
(118,925 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,831 posts)She had the most amazing voice.
My condolences to her family and to all who loved her...
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)So sad.
UnrepentantLiberal
(11,700 posts)She was a good singer.
TuxedoKat
(3,818 posts)she was so young. RIP Ms. Houston.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)die and take with them their incredible talent. RIP Whitney. You gave the world an incredible set of songs, and a fantastic voice to sing them with.
May we always remember them when we hear them.
butterfly77
(17,609 posts)OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)Gilbert Millstein of the NYT, as quoted in the sleeve notes of The Essential Billie Holiday in 1961
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Holiday
Both Holiday and Houston were brilliantly talented women who died in their 40s. Neither could quite come to grips with their demons.
RIP
Bake
(21,977 posts)And pissed it all away. Incredible voice, fame, money ... On her last comeback tour she couldn't sing. Lost virtually all of her fortune. And traded fame for tabloid notoriety.
Damn shame.
Bake
undeterred
(34,658 posts)oh well
nirvana555
(448 posts)I wish people understood that drug addiction is truly a disease. Really, do people wake up in the morning and say "I want to be a
drug addict?." R.I.P., Whitney. I know you have finally found happiness. I just wish I didn't feel so sad
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)for three years. She was to receive $450,000.00 per night. When the reps from PH saw and heard her they cancelled the contract. Apparently her voice was shot and she was wasted physically and emotionally.
What a shame.