whitney houston
"I Wanna Dance with Somebody" is one of Whitney Houston's most recognized songs, a pop and rhythm-and-blues track that became a signature moment in her recording career.
Houston was born on August 9, 1963, in Newark, and grew up as a United States citizen who would work primarily in English across multiple creative roles. She attended Mount Saint Dominic Academy before building a career that spanned singing, acting, film production, record production, and modeling. Her musical work drew on pop, rhythm and blues, gospel, soul, and urban contemporary styles, and her catalog of notable songs also includes "The Greatest Love of All," "How Will I Know," and "Saving All My Love for You." That range of output and genre reach helped her accumulate a substantial list of honors over the course of her career.
Among the awards Houston received were Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, the Billboard Millennium Award, the NRJ Music Award for International Album of the Year, induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and induction into the New Jersey Hall of Fame. She died on February 11, 2012, at The Beverly Hilton in California. Her Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction stands as one of the formal recognitions that marked the scope of what she accomplished as a singer, musician, and recording artist during her lifetime.
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When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are.
You don’t have a baby based on that publicity madness. People don’t live like that. Especially black people who were raised in families with morals and standards and integrity.
I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, ‘Oh, God, what’s this?’ I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.
I’m not crazy about arenas just because I can sell them out. It doesn’t do anything for my ego at all. I want to play places where people don’t have to sit in the nosebleed seats and wonder what the hell is going on.
When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I’d be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.
Sometimes you do have a good time. But when it gets to the point where you’re sitting in your home and you’re just trying to cover what you don’t want people to know. It’s painful. And then you want more just so that you don’t let anybody see you cry. Or anybody to see we’re not happy.
I’m just fiercely protective. It’s like, that’s my lair and nobody messes with my lair.