Thème Oral d'anglais Whitney Houston

Whitney HOUSTON

Daughter of two African Americans, John Russell Houston Jr and Cissy Houston, renowned rhythm and blues singer in the United States, and cousin of singer Dionne Warwick, little Whitney Elizabeth grew up in a musical environment. As a child, she sings in the Newark Baptist Church, with the desire to become a chorister like her mother. She sings her first solo at the age of eleven.

She performs professionally for the first time as a teenager, as chorist of Chaka Khn, Jermaine Jackson, Lou Rawls and Neville Brothers. She also appears as lead singer on Michael Zager Band's single. Life's party in one thousand nine hundred and seventy-eight. At the same time, Whitney made modeling, going as far as being cover of great American magazines like Glamor and Seventeens in one thousand nine hundred and eighty-one.

In nineteen hundred and twenty-three, she signed a contract with Clive Davis, the president of the record company Arista. Two years passed before his first album was released. It is called Whitney Houston, appears in the beginning nineteen hundred and twenty-five and generates three singles ranked number one: Saving ll My love For You, How Will I now and Greatest Love Of All. This album was a tremendous success and reached the top spot in the United States (where it is a diamond record with more than thirteen million copies sold), thus becoming the best selling of a first album for a solo; This record also enjoys great international success, with nearly twenty-five million copies sold to date. Whitney Houston spent the next two years touring (the Greatest Love Tour) for the promotion of this album.

Other successes follow in nineteen eighty-seven and nineteen eighty-eight: the second album, baptized simply Whitney (which appears in June, one thousand nine hundred and eighty-seven), is, from its first release Position of the American top album. It is the first such a feat is made by a female artist. Not less than six singles are extracted from this record, including the international hit I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) Of the entire record to line up seven consecutive top 40 American numbers, breaking the record held by the Beatles and Bee Gees.

In the Thirtieth Grammy Awards, Ninety-eight and eighty-eight Whitney Houston is nominated in three categories, including the album of the year, winning her second "Grammy" for the best pop performance of a singer for I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me). After the release of the album. Whitney Houston embarks for the "Moment Of Truth World Tour" which will be one of deox's biggest tours of this period.

In 1988, the singer recorded a single for the summer Olympics in Seoul, which included One Moment In Time, which reached the top 5 in the United States, and number one in the United Kingdom and Germany.

At the same time, Whitney Houston supports charitable organizations, child and youth organizations, and anti-AIDS organizations. In 1989, she founded the Whitney Houston Foundation for Children Inc., which provides support to homeless and sick children.

In 1990, his third album, "I'm your baby tonight", is also very successful internationally, although it sells a little less than the previous two albums. It nevertheless generates two tubes ranked number one: I'm your baby tonight and all the man that I need. This album also marks its first collaboration with the duo of producers LA Beid and BabyFace which gives a more Urban / Soul side to the album.Babyface becomes its favorite songwriter-producer: it is found in most of its future projects and In all his albums.

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