Whitney Houston - Live in Europe (Remastered, Live On Broadcasting) '2025

Tracks list

Tracklist:

1. I Will Always Love You (Live) (05:13)
2. Saving All My Love for You (Live) (06:18)
3. So Emotional (Live) (04:13)
4. How Will I Know (Live) (07:21)
5. Who Do You Love (Live) (05:19)
6. I Have Nothing (Live) (05:38)
7. My Name Is Not Susan (Live) (04:24)
8. Mercy Mercy Me / What's Going On (Live) (06:17)
9. Revelation Is Here (Live) (02:58)
10. He's Alright (Live) (02:05)
11. I Wanna Dance with Somebody Who Loves Me (Live) (06:00)
12. How Will I Know (Live, alternative version) (03:01)
13. When You Believe (Live oscars 1999) (03:49)


 moreWhitney Elizabeth Houston was born in Newark, New Jersey, on August 9,
1963. Her mother was gospel/R&B singer Cissy Houston, and her cousin was Dionne
Warwick. By age 11, Houston was performing as a soloist in the junior gospel
choir at her Baptist church; as a teenager, she began accompanying her mother in
concert (as well as on the 1978 album Think It Over), and went on to back
artists like Lou Rawls and Chaka Khan. Houston also pursued modeling and acting,
appearing on the sitcoms Gimme a Break and Silver Spoons. Somewhat bizarrely,
Houston's first recording as a featured vocalist was with Bill Laswell's
experimental jazz-funk ensemble Material; the ballad "Memories," from the
group's 1982 album One Down, placed Houston alongside Archie Shepp. The
following year, Arista president Clive Davis heard Houston singing at a
nightclub and offered her a recording contract. Her first single appearance was
a duet with Teddy Pendergrass, "Hold Me," which reached number five on the R&B
chart in 1984.

Houston's debut album, Whitney Houston, was released in February 1985. "You Give
Good Love," its second single, became Houston's first hit, topping the R&B chart
and hitting number three on the Hot 100. Houston's next three singles -- the
Grammy-winning romantic ballad "Saving All My Love for You," the brightly
danceable "How Will I Know," and the inspirational "The Greatest Love of All" --
all topped the Hot 100, and a year to the month after its release, Whitney
Houston hit number one on the Billboard 200. It eventually sold over 13 million
copies in the U.S., making it the best-selling debut ever by a female artist.
Houston cemented her superstar status on her next album, Whitney. It became the
first album by a female artist to debut at number one, and sold over ten million
copies in the U.S. Its first four singles -- "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who
Loves Me)" (another Grammy winner), "Didn't We Almost Have It All," "So
Emotional," and "Where Do Broken Hearts Go" -- all hit number one, an amazing,
record-setting run of seven straight. In late 1988, Houston scored a Top Five
hit with the non-LP single "One Moment in Time," recorded for an Olympics-themed
compilation album.

Houston returned with her third album, I'm Your Baby Tonight, in 1990. A more
R&B-oriented record, it immediately spun off two number one hits in the title
track and "All the Man That I Need" and sold over four million copies. Houston
remained so popular that she could even take a recording of "The Star Spangled
Banner" (performed at the Super Bowl) into the Top 20 -- though, of course, the
Gulf War patriotism had something to do with that. Appeal across mediums fueled
Houston as she began focus on an acting career, which she hadn't pursued since
her teenage years. Her first feature film, a romance with Kevin Costner called
The Bodyguard, was released in late 1992, just after she married singer Bobby
Brown. It performed well at the box office, helped by an ad campaign that
seemingly centered around the climactic key change in Houston's soundtrack
recording of the Dolly Parton-penned "I Will Always Love You." In fact, the ad
campaign undoubtedly helped "I Will Always Love You" become one the biggest
singles in pop music history. It set new records for sales (nearly five million
copies) and spent weeks at number one (14), later broken by Elton John's "Candle
in the Wind 1997" and Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men's "One Sweet Day,"
respectively. Meanwhile, the soundtrack eventually sold an astounding 18 million
copies, and also won a Grammy for Album of the Year. "I Will Always Love You"
itself won Grammys for Record of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance,
Female.

Once Houston had stopped raking in awards and touring the world, she prepared
her next theatrical release, the ensemble drama Waiting to Exhale. A few months
before its release at the end of 1995, it was announced that she and Brown had
split up; however, they called off the split just a couple months later, and
rumors about their tempestuous relationship filled the tabloids for years to
come. Waiting to Exhale was released toward the end of the year, and the first
single from the soundtrack, "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)," topped the charts. The album
sold over seven million copies. For her next project, Houston decided to return
to her gospel roots. The soundtrack to the 1996 film The Preacher's Wife, which
naturally featured Houston in the title role, was loaded with traditional and
contemporary gospel songs, plus guest appearances by Houston's mother, as well
as Shirley Caesar and the Georgia Mass Choir.

In 1998, Houston finally issued a new full-length album, My Love Is Your Love,
her first in eight years. Houston worked with pop/smooth soul mainstays like
Babyface and David Foster, but also recruited hip-hop stars like Missy Elliott,
Wyclef Jean, Lauryn Hill, and Q-Tip. The album went quadruple platinum and
received Houston's most enthusiastic reviews in quite some time. Moreover, it
produced one of her biggest R&B chart hits (seven weeks at number one) in the
trio number "Heartbreak Hotel," done with Faith Evans and Kelly Price.
Additionally, it yielded the Grammy-winning "It's Not Right But It's Okay." She
also duetted with Mariah Carey on "When You Believe," a song from the animated
film The Prince of Egypt.

Arista released the two-disc compilation Greatest Hits, a multi-platinum
anthology that featured one disc of hits and one of remixes and included new
duets with Enrique Iglesias, George Michael, and Deborah Cox, in 2000. It was
also announced that year that Houston had signed a new deal with Arista worth
$100 million, requiring six albums from the singer. The self-styled comeback
album Just Whitney arrived in 2002, followed by One Wish: The Holiday Album in
November of the following year. Two years later, her private life became more
public through the 2005 reality television series Being Bobby Brown. She
eventually divorced her husband and went into intense rehabilitation for drug
addiction.

An album of new material was initially set for release by the end of 2007, but
delays pushed it -- titled I Look to You, featuring collaborations with Alicia
Keys and Swizz Beatz, R. Kelly, Akon, and Diane Warren -- back to September
2009. It became Houston's first number one album since the Bodyguard soundtrack.
She toured the world in 2010, and talked about beginning recording for her next
album, but entered outpatient rehab in the summer of 2011 for continuing drug
and alcohol problems. That fall, Houston filmed a role in a remake of the 1976
musical film Sparkle, starring alongside Jordin Sparks. In early 2012, rumors
swirled that Simon Cowell was courting Houston for a mentor spot on The X
Factor, but before anything came of it, tragedy occurred. On February 11, the
day before the 2012 Grammys, Houston was found dead in her bathroom at the
Beverly Hills Hilton. The cause of death was found to be accidental drowning
caused by heart disease and cocaine intoxication. The Grammy ceremony paid
tribute to her life with a Jennifer Hudson performance of "I Will Always Love
You." Houston was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in
2020. © Steve Huey



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