A lovely pop music diva, Houston successfully alternated danceable mainstream pop (“How Will I Know?”, “Emotional”) with plush ballads (“I Will Always Love You”, “The Greatest Love of All”) to make a highly successful mark on the singles and album charts of the late 1980s and 90s. The daughter of gospel singer Cissy Houston and cousin of famed pop vocalist Dionne Warwick, she began singing as a child and modeled for Wilhelmina as a teen. She was signed by Arista Records in 1983 and had her first hit album, “Whitney Houston”, two years later.
