VKRS Whitney Houston Special

A tribute to her music and life Voice Of A Generation

The complex story of the incomparable Whitney Houston. Born in Newark, New Jersey, to a musical family: she was the daughter of the gospel star Cissy Houston, a cousin of Dionne Warwick and goddaughter of Aretha Franklin, three giants from the world of Gospel Music.

Mentored by Record producer and Music Guru Clive Davis, she sold a dizzying 170 Million records and received more awards than almost any other female pop star of the 20th century. She was also the first black woman to break through the colour bar at the all-important MTV, which
hitherto had played white artists almost exclusively.

MTVs heavy rotation of her videos made her a familiar face to Middle America, with videos such as How Will I Know, The Greatest Love Of All, I Will Always Love You and I Wanna Dance With Somebody

She also starred in The Bodyguard, with Kevin Costner in 1992, a film which spawned her Number One single, I Will Always Love You a cover version of Dolly Parton’s 1974 original. The song spent 10 weeks at the top of the UK charts and won Houston her third Grammy.