Golden Voice and Troubled Mind!!

Life is learning process but it is sad that there are no place where you can learn Success Management. Tasting success at a very early stage may be satisfying but mostly it is too dangerous and disastrous. In the case of many celebrities life, it is natural for those who tasted success very early but never able to cope with it. When we look at the top level, there are quite a few name will queue up in the memory. Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, Boy George, George Michael, Britney Spears and Whitney Houston. Sometime it is loneliness at the top and more often they succumbed to the horrid lifestyle their own. Whitney Houston, when she arrived she looked like a little angel with great persona and enormous talent but her end came with very unlike than that should be.

Whitney Houston

Whitney Houston was born in a middle class family in Newark, New Jersey, the third and youngest child of Army serviceman and entertainment executive John Russell Houston, Jr. and gospel singer Cissy Houston. Her mother, along with cousins Dionne Warwick and Dee Dee Warwick and godmother Aretha Franklin were all notable figures in the gospel, rhythm and blues, pop, and soul  genres. After the 1967 Newark riots, the family moved to a middle class area in East Orange, New Jersey when she was four.

At the age of 11, Houston began to follow in her mother's footsteps and started performing as a soloist in the junior gospel choir at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, where she also learned to play the piano.  Her first solo performance in the church was "Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah".

Debut

Houston's debut album Whitney Houston was released in February 1985. Rolling Stone magazine praised Houston, calling her "one of the most exciting new voices in years" while The New York Times called the album "an impressive, musically conservative showcase for an exceptional vocal talent".  At the 1986 Grammy Awards, Houston was nominated for three awards including Album of the Year.    She won her first Grammy award for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female for "Saving All My Love for You". At the same award show, she performed that Grammy-winning hit; that performance later winning her an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program.

Film and Disastrous Marriage

With the commercial success of her albums, movie offers poured in, including offers to work with Robert De Niro and other famous actors but Houston felt the time wasn't right.  Houston's first film role was in The Bodyguard, released in 1992 and co-starring Kevin Costner. Houston played Rachel Marron, a star who is stalked by a crazed fan and hires a bodyguard to protect her. USA Today listed it as one of the 25 most memorable movie moments of the last 25 years in 2007. She was married to  R&B singer Bobby Brown and having a daughter named Bobbi Kristina Houston Brown.

Sorry State and Sad End

A day before  her death, Houston visited singers Brandy and Monica, together with Clive Davis, at their rehearsals for Davis' pre-Grammy Awards party. Times reported that Houston was reeking of alcohol and looked very bloated and disheveled, wearing mismatched clothing with her hair dripping of either water or sweat. During  rehearsal, Houston was seen skipping around the lobby or wandering aimlessly around the hotel ground. At one point guests of the hotel reported her behavior to security after she was seen doing handstands by the hotel pool. Houston attended a party that evening held by Kelly Price and a scuffle was narrowly avoided with singer Stacy Francis. Houston attempted to raise her hand, but was calmed down. Later in the evening, Houston gave what would be her final onstage performance when she took to the stage along with Price for a one minute performance of "Jesus Loves Me". Houston was photographed leaving the club clearly intoxicated and with scratches and blood stains on her legs, of unknown cause.

On February 11, 2012, Houston was found dead at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, in Beverly Hills. she was pulled out of her bathtub ‘unconscious and unresponsive’ and she was pronounced dead a hour later.

!!!Managing your Success and Failure, all mater to your mental strength.!!!