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By the best selling author of 'Michael Jackson: For The Record'
Whitney Houston exploded on the music scene in 1985. Her self-titled album quickly became the best selling debut by a female artist, her second album was the first by a female artist to debut at no.1 in the States, and when she had seven consecutive chart toppers on Billboard's Hot 100, she smashed a record set by the Beatles and the Bee Gees.
Whitney's first film, The Bodyguard, grossed over $410 million, and the lead single from the soundtrack â a cover of Dolly Parton's I Will Always Love You â topped charts all over the world, and is one of the best selling singles of all-time.
Marriage, motherhood and difficult times followed, but Whitney made a successful comeback in 2009 when I LOOK TO YOU, her first studio album for six years, debuted at
no.1 in the States.
This is the story of Whitney and her music...