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Whitney
Houston discchi
Whitney Houston-fan.com)
Whintey Houston - Whitney Houston ha stabilito un nuovo record nel mondo
della discografia. Prima di lei solo Mariah Carey era riuscita a strappare un
contratto discografico plurimiliardario. Guarda le foto della diva da 100
milioni di dollari!
In the span of 16 years, Whitney Houston has become an international superstar
in the worlds of both music and motion pictures, amassing global album sales of
over 115 million copies alone, and a film box office total of over a half
billion dollars. Through her mother, R&B/gospel singer Cissy Houston, and
her legendary cousin Dionne Warwick, Whitney has been exposed to music since
birth. As a member of the New Hope Baptist Junior Choir in Newark, NJ, Whitney
developed into a soloist by the age of 11. Cissy Houston's career helped provide
Whitney with invaluable vocal training. Whitney was singing backup for artists
like Chaka Khan and Lou Rawls while in her mid-teens, frequently appearing with
Cissy in concert and local New York clubs. While she also began pursuing a
career in modeling (gracing the cover of magazines such as Glamour and Seventeen),
her musical ambitions received a boost when she teamed with singer Teddy
Pendergrass for his 1984 hit, "Hold Me." Clive Davis, legendary former
president of Arista Records, signed Whitney to the label, and her debut album,
WHITNEY HOUSTON, released in 1985, boasted a string of hits including a song
that became virtually Whitney's anthem, "The Greatest Love of All."
The album went on to sell over 20 million copies worldwide, becoming the
biggest-selling debut album by a solo artist in history. With the anticipated
1987 release of WHITNEY, Houston made history again when she became the first
female artist to enter the album charts at number one. WHITNEY included a stream
of chart-toppers including "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves
Me)," "So Emotional," "Love Will Save The Day" and
"Where Do Broken Hearts Go," which established Houston as the only
artist to have seven consecutive number-one hits, surpassing a record previously
held by The Beatles and the Bee Gees. Her third album, I'M YOUR BABY TONIGHT,
released in 1990, displayed Whitney's versatility, spanning tough rhythmic
grooves, soulful ballads and up-tempo dance tracks, again setting sales records
as a multiplatinum seller internationally. The following year, Whitney's
rendition of the U.S. national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner,"
went on to sell one million copies as a single, with all the profits donated to
benefit veterans of the Gulf War.Whitney's next project was her first
motion-picture role in THE BODYGUARD, costarring with Oscar-winning actor/director
Kevin Costner. The film broke box-office records worldwide, opening new horizons
for her. Six Houston songs highlighted the 1992 soundtrack, which became the
biggest-selling album of the 1990s and the most successful soundtrack of all
time, selling over 33 million copies worldwide. "I Will Always Love You,"
the first single from the movie, became the largest-selling commercial single in
history. Whitney's second movie, WAITING TO EXHALE, was released in December
1995. The critically acclaimed film, starring Whitney and Angela Bassett, went
on to gross about $70 million at the box office, earning far more than the film's
original budget and laying the groundwork for a multitude of all-Black ensemble
films that followed. The soundtrack for WAITING TO EXHALE, featuring three
tracks from Whitney, quickly became a number-one album, which to date has sold
about 10 million copies worldwide. In 1996, Whitney's third movie, THE PREACHER'S
WIFE, was released costarring Denzel Washington and directed by Penny Marshall.
The soundtrack, which included the singles "I Believe In You And Me"
and "Step By Step," became the biggest-selling gospel album of all
time, and in some part, fulfilled Whitney's dream to record a gospel album.
After a long wait that included successful international tours, Whitney returned
to recording and released her first non-soundtrack album in eight years -- MY
LOVE IS YOUR LOVE. The album went on to sell over 10 million copies worldwide
despite little advance word, and earned Whitney her sixth Grammy -- Best Female
R&B Vocal Performance -- for the single "It's Not Right But It's
Okay" in February 2000....whitney-fan.com/titles/persona.shtm
 Festiva
Bar 2002. Altro che
Sanremo..... già si respira aria di scatenamento e già mi vedo le
folle, incollate alle transenne, in attesa che i cantanti si attacchino
ai microfoni. Quest'anno la selezione dei cantanti e gli ospiti invitati
è particolarmente pregevole: vi basti un nome: Red
Hot Chili Peppers
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