LOS ANGELES – Whitney Houston, who ruled as pop music’s queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, has died. She was 48.
Houston’s publicist, Kristen Foster, said Saturday that the singer had died, but the cause and the location of her death were unknown.
News of Houston’s death came on the eve of music’s biggest night — the Grammy Awards. It’s a showcase where she once reigned, and her death was sure to case a heavy pall on Sunday’s ceremony. Houston’s longtime mentor Clive Davis was to hold his annual concert and dinner Saturday; it was unclear if it was going to go forward.
At her peak, Houston the golden girl of the music industry. From the middle 1980s to the late 1990s, she was one of the world’s best-selling artists. She wowed audiences with effortless, powerful, and peerless vocals that were rooted in the black church but made palatable to the masses with a pop sheen.
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RIP Whitney 🙁
RIP
May God bless you 🙁
RIP-Whitney….I’ll always love you…
her voice will live on…
May God be with her and her family
May Whitney be at rest and peace be with her family.
A beautiful lady. A beautiful voice. Too bad she made some very bad decisions and destroyed it all. She is now safe in the arms of Jesus.
too bad and so sad
Whitney, gave me the Idead to dedicate the song “The Greatest Love of All” to my parents. RIP pretty Lady!!!! 🙁
A very sad day
omg…. PLEASE DON’T DIE MADONNA !!! I Don’t think I could bear ( Sorry, that Doesn’t mean Un-safe Sex for all you Twisted Sisters out there, who read in Imaginary meanings to everything) the Screams of Hysterical Devotees at your Demise ;-(