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Black History from Pittsburgh
EVERY WEEK we will honor and represent our African American heroes. TO VIEW BLACK HISTORY ARCHIVES CLICK HERE |
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know that it is very important for the world to know about our heritage.
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The
Week of September 17th, 2006: IN
BLACK HISTORY
Houston has sold over 120 million albums and 50 million singles... READ MORE REST IN PEACE: (R.I.P.)
Andrea Lee Oliver Woodson aka "Andy" aka "Mother" Lucy Curry , Dot Talley, Vera Downing,
Bertrand "Goocher" Frye, Irma Woodson, Copyright 2006 Brotha Ash Productions. All Rights Reserved |
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Whitney
Elizabeth Houston (born August 9, 1963)
is an American pop and R&B singer and actress. Houston
has also been a film producer, songwriter and former fashion model.
Houston's debut album was released in 1985 to considerable critical
and commercial success, and within the next three years she released
a record seven consecutive number-one hits on the U.S. Billboard
Hot 100 chart, a record that still has been unbroken. She was
one of a handful of African-American artists who received heavy
rotation on MTV during the network's early years in the 1980s.
Houston continued her success in the 1990s with the release of
several films and their corresponding soundtrack albums, the most
popular of which was The Bodyguard (1992), which became one of
the best-selling albums of all time and produced her hit signature
song "I Will Always Love You" (a cover of Dolly Parton's
original). Her record sales during the next decade were modest,
and her personal life became the subject of controversy because
of allegations of drug abuse. 
