Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston
Whitney Elizabeth Houstonwas an American singer, actress, producer, and model. In 2009, Guinness World Records cited her as the most awarded female act of all time. Houston is one of pop music's best-selling music artists of all-time, with an estimated 170–200 million records sold worldwide. She released seven studio albums and two soundtrack albums, all of which have diamond, multi-platinum, platinum or gold certification. Houston's crossover appeal on the popular music charts, as well as her prominence on MTV, starting...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionR&B Singer
Date of Birth9 August 1963
CityNewark, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
We don't really know much about them. But if they try to slow it down, we'll just keep on going.
I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.
Nobody likes to be picked on. Nobody.
Judge not for your flaws, but for your Triumphs!
I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.
I can tell you that I am not self-destructive. I'm not a person who wants to die. I'm a person who has life, who wants to live. And I always have. And I wouldn't mistake it for anything else other than that.
Loneliness comes with life.
Crack is cheap. I make too much money to ever smoke crack. Let's get that straight. OK? We don't do crack. We don't do that. Crack is whack.
I know that I could really kill for my daughter. I know because I'm living for her, so I'm fierce when it comes down to it. And I feel the same about my husband and my family. I'm just fiercely protective. It's like, that's my lair and nobody messes with my lair.
If you say my eyes are beautiful, it's because they are looking at you.
I almost wish I could be more exciting, that I could match what is happening out there to me.
I don't like it when they [media critics] see me as this little person who doesn't know what to do with herself -- like I have no idea what I want, like I'm just a puppet ... That's demeaning to me, because that ain't how it is, and it never was.
Growing around great musicians, you just can't help it. I identified with it immediately. It was something that was so natural to me that when I started singing, it was almost like speaking.