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Issue# 117 June 8th, 2012

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Remembering Icons of the past...
Where would they be now?

Whitney Houston cess on MTV in Michael Jackson’s
wake. Like many of the original
Whitney Houston was inarguably soul singers, Houston was trained in
one of the biggest female pop stars gospel before moving into secular
of all time. Her accomplishments as music; over time, she developed a
a hitmaker were extraordinary; just virtuosic singing style given over
to scratch the surface, she became to swooping, flashy melodic embel-
the first artist ever to have seven lishments. The shadow of Houston’s
consecutive singles hit number one, prodigious technique still looms
and her 1993 Dolly Parton cover “I large over nearly every pop diva
Will Always Love You” became noth- and smooth urban soul singer --
ing less than the biggest hit single male or female -- in her wake, and
in rock history. Houston was able spawned a legion of imitators (de-
to handle big adult contemporary spite some critics’ complaints about
ballads, effervescent, stylish dance- over-singing). Always more of a
pop, and slick urban contemporary singles artist, Houston largely shied
soul with equal dexterity; the result away from albums during the ‘90s,
was an across-the-board appeal that releasing the bulk of her most popu-
was matched by scant few artists of lar material on the soundtracks of
her era, and helped her become one films in which she appeared.
of the first black artists to find suc-
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