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Whitney Houston and her husband Bobby Brown.
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Houston’s Farewell
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prescription bottles in your medicine cabinet."
Her body was returned to New Jersey late Monday.
Houston was bom in Newark and was raised in nearby East Orange. She
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began singing as a child at New Hope Baptist Church, where her mother,
Grammy-winning gospel singer Cissy Houston, led the music program for
many years. Her cousin singer Dionne Warwick also
sang in its choir.
An impromptu memorial for Houston was held Sun­
day during a sadness-tinged Grammys, with Jennifer
Hudson saluting her memory with a performance of "I
Will Always Love You." Viewership for the awards show
soared over last year by 50 percent, with about 40 million
viewers tuning in to the program on CBS.
On Monday, mourners left flowers, balloons and
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candles for Houston at the wrought-iron fence around
the tall brick church, which sits near the edge of an
abandoned housing project near the train line leading to
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New York City.
A sensation from her first album, Houston was one of
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the world's best-selling artists from the m id-1980s to the
late 1990s, turning out such hits as "I Wanna Dance With
Somebody," "How Will 1 Know," "The Greatest Love of
All" and "I Will Always Love You."
She awed millions with soaring, but disciplined, vo­
cals rooted in gospel and polished for the masses, a
bridge between the earthy passion of her godmother
Aretha Franklin, and the bouncy pop of her cousin
Dionne Warwick.
Her success carried her beyond music to movies,
where she became a rare black actress with box office
appeal, starring in such hits as “The Bodyguard” and
“Waiting to Exhale.”
But as she struggled with drugs, her majestic voice
became raspy, and she couldn't hit the high notes.
Bishop T.D. Jakes, a Texas minister and producer on
Houston’s final film project, a re-make of the 1970s
release “Sparkle,” said he saw no signs she was having
any substance issues. He said Houston was a complete
professional and moved the cast and crew to tears two
months ago when she sang the gospel hymn “Her Eyes
on the Sparrow” for a scene shot in Detroit.
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“There was no evidence in working with her on
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‘Sparkle’ that there was any struggle in her life,” Jakes
said Sunday. “She just left a deep impression on every­
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body.”
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Houston left behind one child, daughter Bobbi Kristina
Brown, 18, from her marriage to singer Bobby Brown.
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