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The Bodyguard soundtrack,
Arista Records, 1992 BILLBOARD CHART ACHIEVEMENTS: Adult Contemporary: # 1 Top 40 Mainstream: # 3 Hot 100 Singles: # 4 R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: # 4 Rhythmic Top 40: # 5 GLOBAL CHART ACHIEVEMENTS: # 3 in the UK # 39 in Switzerland # 39 in Germany Top Ten hit at MATT RADIO |
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Whitney Houston began her illustrious career as a member of the Hope Baptist junior choir in Newark, New Jersey, where her mother served as minister of music. Her early training, however, was not limited to her participation in the church choir. With famed gospel and session singer Cissy Houston for a mom, Whitney was also privy to the behind-the-scenes world of the recording sessions of some of the industry's biggest names—Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick, Linda Ronstadt, Bette Midler, and many others.
By the age of eleven, Whitney was performing as the church's featured soloist and flourishing under her mother's careful tutelage. "When Whitney was a kid," her father relates, "she used to go down to the basement of the house wearing her mother's stage outfits and start singing, and her mother would be doing the dishes in the kitchen, shouting down to Whitney, 'You're not hitting the notes, come on, a little higher. That's it, that's the one, baby.'" The young Houston also found willing vocal and performance coaches in family friend Franklin and cousin Warwick. By her mid-teens, it was Whitney herself who was working with industry superstars like Chaka Khan and Lou Rawls as well as performing with her mother and as a soloist in New York's thriving club scene. Simultaneously pursuing a career in modeling, Whitney's big break came when she partnered with Teddy Pendergrass on the 1984 single "Hold Me."
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