Whitney Houston
By Marcus Kagler
The often told story of a young talented megastar manipulated by the trappings of fame is nearly as old as the music industry itself. Everyone from Edith Piaf to Billie Holiday, Elvis Presley to Janice Joplin, Johnny Cash to Ray Charles, Sid Vicious to Kurt Cobain have fallen victim to a lethal cocktail of overexposure, egoism, drug addiction, and widely reported public antics as to become the stuff of enduring cautionary myths and legends. Whitney Houston’s plunge from multiplatinum R&B diva to tabloid shadow of her former self, however, is particularly shocking as she so embodied the innocent poster child image of such a non-threatening adult contemporary R&B genre devoid of rock ‘n’ roll clichés. Blessed... Read More
- City Of Origin:
- Newark , New Jersey, United States
- Genre:
- Soul, Cont/Urban
- Birthdate:
- 08/09/1963
- Death date:
- 02/11/2012
