Whitney Houston was born on this date in 1963. 10 things you might not know about her:
Her voice was in the mezzo-Soprano range, and she was often called “The Voice”.
She first started singing at the baptist church in her home town of Newark, New Jersey. Her solo performance debut was there, singing the hymn Guide Me O Thou Great Jehovah at age 12.
As a teenager she became a model and appeared on the cover of Seventeen and in fashion spreads for Cosmopolitan and Glamour.
Dionne and Dee Dee Warwick were her cousins. Aretha Franklin was her "honorary aunt" while Darlene Love was her godmother.
Throughout her career she won 415 awards, including 2 Emmys, 6 Grammys, 16 Billboard Music Awards, and 22 American Music Awards.
She also charted seven consecutive number one Billboard 100 songs for: Saving All My Love For You; How Will I Know; Greatest Love of All; I Wanna Dance With Somebody; Didn’t We Almost Have It All; and Where Do Broken Hearts Go?
She was an actress as well as a singer. In 1984 she appeared on the soap As The World Turns, but her best known role is no doubt the film The Bodyguard, in which she played a star stalked by a fan who hires a bodyguard (Kevin Costner) to protect her.
After being romantically linked with Jermaine Jackson and Eddie Murphy, she married the singer Bobby Brown in 1992. They had one daughter, Bobbi Kristina. Brown was sometimes violent and had run ins with the law. When they divorced in 2007 Houston claimed he was an unreliable parent.
She was a social activist and donated money to charity. Her share of the proceeds of the video of her singing the national anthem at Superbowl XXV to the American Red Cross Gulf Crisis Fund.
She died aged just 48. She drowned in a hotel Bathtub as a result of taking cocaine and an underlying Heart problem.
The first in a new series! It has invading aliens, gladiator-style contests, rivalry and romance.
The six richest people in Britain decide to hold a contest to settle the question of which of them is most successful. It will be a gladiator style contest with each entrant fielding a team of ten super-powered combatants. Entrepreneur Llew Powell sets out to put together his team, which includes his former lover, an employee of his company with a fascinating hobby, two refugees from another dimension (a lonely giant and a drunken sailor), two sisters bound together by a promise, a diminutive doctor, a former Tibetan monk initiate and two androids with a history. As the team train together, alliances form, friendships and more develop, while others find the past is not easy to leave behind.
Meanwhile, a ruthless race of aliens has its eyes on the Earth. Already abducting and enslaving humans, they work towards the final invasion which would destroy life on Earth as we know it. Powell’s group, Combat Team Alpha, stumble upon one of the wormholes the aliens use to travel to Earth and witness for themselves the horrors in store if the aliens aren’t stopped. Barely escaping with their lives, they realise there are more important things to worry about than a fighting competition.
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