A Star Was Born

A Star Was Born Whitney Elizabeth Houston. Born on august 9, 1963 in Newark New Jersey. Her mother Cissy Houston, Cissy Dionne Warwich, and godmother Aretha Franklin were all legendary figures in American gospel and soul music, which seemed destined from birth to become a singer. By the time she turned 15; Whitney was performing often with her mother and trying to get a record deal of her own. When she was 19, Whitney Houston was discovered in a night club by the renowned Clive Davis of Arista records. In 1985, she released her debut album Whitney Houston and almost immediately became a smash pop sensation. Houston followed the monumental success of her album with a second release, Whitney in 1987. During this time the singer also appeared at a concert for Nelson Mandela’s birthday, and founded the Whitney Houston foundation for children, a nonprofit organization that funds projects to needy children all over the world. By 1992, Whitney Houston was on top of the world but her life was about to get real complicated very fast. That year she married the r&b singer Bobby Brown. After the marriage was passionate and loving, but the things turned sour as the decade progressed and both Brown and Houston battled substance abuse and increasingly erratic behavior. In spite of these growing personal troubles, Whitney continued to progress in her career. In the late 1990s to early 2000s, Houston increasingly rocky marriage struggled with drugs and health problems threatened to derail her career. Several concert cancelations and a notorious TV interview with Diane Sawyer in 2002, in which Houston appeared far too thin and in very poor health led to many speculations that she was on the verge of a breakdown. Over the next few years Houston attempted to repair her marriage and to break her drug habit, but after several relapses her mother Cissy had to step in. After almost a decade of struggling with her personal life. Houston seemed to be pulling herself together.