Whitney
Elizabeth
"Nippy"
Houston
Born in Newark, Essex, New Jersey, United States
Ancestors 
Daughter of John Russell Houston Jr
and Cissy (Drinkard) Houston
Sister of
John Russell Houston III [half]
Wife of
[private husband (1960s - unknown)]
Mother of
Bobbi Kristina Brown
Died
at age 48
in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States
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Biography
Whitney Houston is Notable.
Whitney Houston was an American singer and actress known for her powerful, soulful vocals and vocal improvisation skills. She is the only artist to have had seven consecutive number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100.
Whitney Elizabeth Houston was born August 9, 1963 in Newark New Jersey to John Russell Houston, Jr and Emily "Cissy" Drinkard.[1][2][3]
Whitney started singing as a young child in church. She sang as a background vocalist during high school, and soon started work as a model. At age 19, she was signed to Arista Records. She was an immediate chart-topping success and was one of the best-selling female vocalists of all time.[3]
Whitney gained her first acting role in 1992's "The Bodyguard," and her single from the movie, "I Will Always Love You," became the best-selling physical single by a woman in music history.[3]
Whitney married R&B singer Bobby Brown July 18, 1992.[1] They had one daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, and divorced in 2007. Whitney and Bobby's relationship was tumultuous and often violent.[3]
Whitney struggled with drug use throughout her life. On February 11, 2012, she accidentally drowned in a bathtub at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills, with heart disease and cocaine use as contributing factors.[3] She is buried in Fairview Cemetery in Westfield, New Jersey.[4]
Cousins
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Cissy Houston. GenealogyBank.com, 2014
- ↑ Wikipedia: Cissy Houston
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Wikipedia contributors, "Whitney Houston," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Whitney_Houston&oldid=1129685818 (accessed December 26, 2022).
- ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 9 February 2021), memorial page for Whitney Houston (9 Aug 1963–11 Feb 2012), Find A Grave: Memorial #84839013, citing Fairview Cemetery, Westfield, Union County, New Jersey, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave .
- "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014," Database with images, FamilySearch: accessed 25 June 2015. Whitney Elizabeth Houston, California, US, 12 Feb 2012; from "Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 - Today)," GenealogyBank.com (www.genealogybank.com 2014).
- "United States Public Records, 1970-2009," FamilySearch: accessed 25 June 2015), Whitney Houston Brown, Residence, S Plainfield, New Jersey, United States; a third party aggregator of publicly available information.
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