Whitney Houston Had the Voice That CONQUERED the World

She had maybe the greatest voice of her generation, and it slowly tore her apart.

Whitney Houston grew up in Newark, New Jersey, in a family soaked in music.

Her mother sang gospel, Dionne Warwick was her cousin, and Aretha Franklin was like an aunt.

She sang her first solos in the church choir, a nervous girl whose voice silenced the room.

As a teenager she sang backup, until an executive heard her and signed her on the spot.

Her debut album made her a star, but fame in that family came with impossible expectations.

In 1992, she recorded I Will Always Love You for a film called The Bodyguard.

It became one of the best-selling singles ever.

She sold more than two hundred million records and redefined the pop vocal.

She remains the most awarded female artist of all time, a voice the world will never stop chasing.

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