Houston began singing at New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey, as a child and became a background vocalist while in high school. She was one of the first black women to appear on the cover of Seventeen after becoming a teen model in 1981. With the guidance of Arista Records chairman Clive Davis, Houston signed to the label at age 19. Her first two studio albums, Whitney Houston (1985) and Whitney (1987), both peaked at number one on the Billboard 200 and are among the best-selling albums of all time. Hit singles from the albums, including "How Will I Know", "Greatest Love of All" and "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)", established her as a catalyst in the acceptance of black female artists on MTV. Her third studio album, I'm Your Baby Tonight (1990), yielded two Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles, the title track and "All the Man That I Need". Houston's rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Super Bowl XXV in 1991 received widespread media coverage.
Houston made her acting debut with the romantic thriller film The Bodyguard (1992), which despite its mixed reviews became the tenth highest-grossing film to that date. Its soundtrack won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year and remains the bestselling soundtrack album of all time. It generated multiple hit singles, including "I Have Nothing", "I'm Every Woman" and "I Will Always Love You"; the latter won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year, spent a then-record 14 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 and became the best-selling single by a woman in music history. Subsequently, she went on to star in the films Waiting to Exhale (1995) and The Preacher's Wife (1996), and she recorded their respective soundtracks; the former scored her last Billboard Hot 100 number-one single, "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)", while the latter, produced by Houston herself, became the bestselling gospel album of all time. As a film producer, she produced multicultural movies and series such as Cinderella (1997) and The Princess Diaries and The Cheetah Girls.
Houston's first studio album in eight years, My Love Is Your Love (1998), spawned several hit singles, including the title track, "Heartbreak Hotel", "It's Not Right but It's Okay" and the Academy Award-winning Mariah Carey duet "When You Believe". Following the success, she renewed her contract with Arista for $100 million in 2001, one of the biggest recording deals of all time. However, her personal problems began to overshadow her career. Her 2002 studio album, Just Whitney, received mixed reviews, while her drug use and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown received widespread media coverage. After divorcing Brown, Houston returned to the top of the Billboard 200 chart with her final studio album, I Look to You (2009). In February 2012, Houston accidentally drowned in a bathtub at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills, with heart disease and cocaine use as contributing factors. News of her death coincided with the 2012 Grammy Awards, which took place the day following her death, and was covered internationally. Her life and career were dramatized in the 2022 biopic I Wanna Dance with Somebody. Her assets amounted to $250 million, earned over a 25-year career.
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Discography
Whitney Houston (1985)
Whitney (1987)
I'm Your Baby Tonight (1990)
My Love Is Your Love (1998)
Just Whitney (2002)
One Wish: The Holiday Album (2003)
I Look to You (2009)
Gospel Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston Lyrics
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Big up to my life Wyclef Jean
So check it out
one day I was in the studio with the
Queen of Pop Whitney Houston and
I was like 'Whitney
You know we both from Jersey right let's take
Its not right, but it's okay
Wyclef kill sound boys everyday
Refugee sound thats all we need
To all sound boys back 'way and leave
Uh, welcome to Newark to New Jersey Drive
Hot wire your car for a joyride
Shotta you show up with big
Guns and big spears
My teacher said they gone give
Me they electric chair
Welcome to my backyard, my pit wears a muzzle
Its a maze and we're living in a puzzle
Welcome to the jungle
I bought the roses they bought the guns
Communicating with hand signs
Like we waving at the sun
Its not right, but it's okay
Wyclef kill sound boys everyday
Refugee sound thats all we need
To all sound boys back 'way and leave
I bet you better wise up
Cause Clef ain't the one you should size up
I use to climb the project
Building like spider kit
Not all of us was drug dealers
Some was stick up kids
Touye manman ou, Touye manman ou
Touye manman ou, Touye manman ou
What that mean in creole? killing your mom
Call the undertaker, grave digger, coroner
What's the name of your new
Gun? call him life taker
Its not right, but it's okay
Wyclef kill sound boys everyday
Refugee sound thats all we need
To all sound boys back 'way and leave
Whitney Houston’s song “Home” describes a deep longing for a place where love and acceptance can be found. She reflects on her own life experiences, and realizes that her journey has left her feeling empty and disconnected. She recalls a home where there was always love overflowing, and wishes she could go back to that place. The song openly explores the conflicts that arise when we are forced to leave the people and places we love, and the turmoil that comes with change. The wind, snowflakes, and sprinkling of the scene are all metaphors that convey how life can be both beautiful and fleeting. The desire to return to a place of love and affection is a universal theme that many people can relate to, and this song captures that sentiment perfectly.
The lyrics express a sense of yearning for a place of comfort and familiarity, and the recognition that this idealized world may be unattainable. The singer acknowledges the challenges that come with change, but also expresses hope and optimism for the future. The final stanza speaks to the importance of looking inside ourselves to find the love we seek, and the belief that such a world can be created if we work together.
Line by Line Meaning
When I think of home
Home is where I feel comfort and happiness
I think of a place where there's Love overflowing;
A place where love is abundant and readily available
I wish I was home,
I long to be back in that place
I wish I was back there
I want to go back to that moment
With the things I've been knowing.
With the knowledge and wisdom that I had gained from that place
Wind that makes the tall trees bend into leaning,
The power of nature is so great that even the trees bow to its force
Suddenly the snowflakes that fall Have a meaning.
The seemingly insignificant things in life can have great significance when given a different perspective
Sprinkling the scene, makes it all clean.
This fresh start allows for a clean slate to move forward
Maybe there's a chance For me to go back
Perhaps an opportunity exists to return to this place
Now that I have some direction;
Now that I know where I want to go in life
It sure would be nice to be back home,
Returning to the place of comfort and happiness would be wonderful
Where there's love and affection.
A place where I am surrounded by love and affection
And just maybe I can convince time To slow up.
I hope that time will allow me to enjoy this moment and experience it at a slower pace
Giving me enough time in my life to grow up;
Enough time to mature and grow into the person I want to become
Time, please be my friend, and let me start again...
I hope that time will be kind to me and allow me to start anew
Suddenly my world is gonna change its face
My life is about to change in a significant way
But I still know where I'm going;
Despite the changes, I still have a sense of direction in my life
I have had my mind spun around and around In space
My thoughts have been scattered and confused like a spaceship floating in space
And yet I've watched it growing.
But I have observed my own personal growth despite the confusion
Oh, I know you're listening Lord,
I have faith that God is listening to my prayers
So won't you please don't make it hard
Please don't make my journey more difficult than it needs to be
I know I shouldn't believe everything, everything That things we see.
I understand that not everything I see or hear is true
Tell me, should I try and stay Or maybe I should run away Would it be better, better Just to let things be?
I am unsure whether I should stay or leave this situation, I don't know what the best course of action is
Living here in this brand-new world Might be a fantasy; yes it might be
The new world that I find myself in may seem like a dream, too good to be true
But it taught me to love,
Despite the fantastical nature of this world, it is teaching me to love
So I know that it's real, its real, real to me...
I may not understand everything about this world, but I know that my experiences in it are real and meaningful to me
And I've learned that we must look Inside our hearts to find...
To find true happiness and meaning in life, we must look within ourselves
Yeah we gotta find A world full of love Like yours, like mine- Like Home
We should strive to create a world filled with love, like the one we remember from home
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