WHITNEY HOUSTON fans will be remembering the singer's death as the anniversary looms once again - but how old was Whitney when she died?


Whitney Houston directed the stage with her incredible voice and performative style. She sang in front of an audience for a long time, procuring the 'diva' title for her bewildering work. Be that as it may, she had her very own battles because of medication use and her wild union with Bobby Brown and eventually she passed on awfully youthful, having suffocated in the shower of her Beverly Hills home.

How old was Whitney Houston when she died?

Whitney Houston died on February 11, 2012, aged just 48-years-old.

The singer was born on August 9, 1963, in New Jersey, and cut her teeth singing in her local Baptist church choir.

She also learned to sing from her mother, Cissy, who was a back-up singer to Elvis Presley with her band, The Sweet Inspirations.

When she was a teen, she was singing support vocals for some of her idols as worship, as Chaka Khan. 


Whitney at that point began displaying, turning into the main African American lady on the front of Seventeen magazine, yet soon the attention was back on her vocals, and she was before long explored by record names to sign her. 


She was endorsed by Arista Records and in 1985, she delivered her first collection, an eponymous collection which acquired extraordinary accomplishment across Europe before it began to become famous somewhere else. 


In the long run, her kindred Americans began focusing, and she got Grammy selections, winning the Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female for Saving All My Love For You. 


Her subsequent collection, Whitney, was delivered in 1987, and furthermore won the Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female for I Wanna Dance With Somebody.


Her third collection I'm Your Baby Tonight demonstrated a slight difference in chief for Whitney, however it additionally performed well, not acquiring as much basic recognition as her initial two records. 


Nonetheless, by this point, Whitney was a big name whose individual life was as of much interest to fans as her work. 

In 1992, she wedded R&B artist Bobby Brown, who she had met in 1989.

She then became pregnant with Bobbi, who she gave birth to on March 4, 1993.



Her union with Bobby was wild and the pair utilized medications together and charges of abusive behavior at home on the two sides were feature news. 


Before these features turned into a burning-through factor of Whitney's life, she acted in The Bodyguard, in 1992, which acquired overall achievement, and saw her introduction her front of Dolly Parton's I Will Always Love You. 



All through the 1990s Whitney kept on delivering music, regardless of the individual troubles she was confronting, however these reached a critical stage during the 2000s. 

In 2004, an unscripted television show dispatched called Being Bobby Brown, encompassing the everyday goings-on of Bobby and their family. 

The show was a basic fiasco, with some in any event, recommending it was undignified for Whitney to be in it, and she would not show up in a subsequent arrangement, so, all in all it was dropped.

After separating in September 2006, Whitney and Bobby divorced on April 24, 2007 and Whitney was granted custody of Bobbi.


She made a comeback in the music world at this point, releasing I Look To You in 2009, which became her first success in 11 years.


Whitney also did her groundbreaking interview with Oprah Winfrey, where she addressed drug rumours and admitted to having undergone a rehabilitation programme, as well as speaking of alleged domestic abuse in her marriage.

Speaking about her marriage with Oprah Winfrey in 2009, Whitney said: “You put your marijuana, you lace it [with cocaine], you roll it up and you smoke it.

“I had so much money and so much access to what I wanted…

He spit on me. He spit on me. He actually spit on me. And my daughter was coming down the stairs and she saw that."


"I took the phone and I hit him over the head with it."


In 2011, Whitney was readmitted to rehabilitation for drug and alcohol problems, after which she took part in the 2012 film Sparkle, her final film role.


On February 11, 2012, two days after checking into the Beverly Hilton Hotel ahead of the Grammy Awards, Whitney was found unconscious in her bathtub, the police said.


Despite attempts to revive her, Whitney died at 3.55pm that day, and later the coroner found her cause of death to be drowning, atherosclerotic heart disease and cocaine use.

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 WHITNEY HOUSTON fans will be remembering the singer's death as the anniversary looms once again - but how old was Whitney when she died?


Whitney Houston directed the stage with her incredible voice and performative style. She sang in front of an audience for a long time, procuring the 'diva' title for her bewildering work. Be that as it may, she had her very own battles because of medication use and her wild union with Bobby Brown and eventually she passed on awfully youthful, having suffocated in the shower of her Beverly Hills home.

How old was Whitney Houston when she died?

Whitney Houston died on February 11, 2012, aged just 48-years-old.

The singer was born on August 9, 1963, in New Jersey, and cut her teeth singing in her local Baptist church choir.

She also learned to sing from her mother, Cissy, who was a back-up singer to Elvis Presley with her band, The Sweet Inspirations.

When she was a teen, she was singing support vocals for some of her idols as worship, as Chaka Khan. 


Whitney at that point began displaying, turning into the main African American lady on the front of Seventeen magazine, yet soon the attention was back on her vocals, and she was before long explored by record names to sign her. 


She was endorsed by Arista Records and in 1985, she delivered her first collection, an eponymous collection which acquired extraordinary accomplishment across Europe before it began to become famous somewhere else. 


In the long run, her kindred Americans began focusing, and she got Grammy selections, winning the Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female for Saving All My Love For You. 


Her subsequent collection, Whitney, was delivered in 1987, and furthermore won the Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female for I Wanna Dance With Somebody.


Her third collection I'm Your Baby Tonight demonstrated a slight difference in chief for Whitney, however it additionally performed well, not acquiring as much basic recognition as her initial two records. 


Nonetheless, by this point, Whitney was a big name whose individual life was as of much interest to fans as her work. 

In 1992, she wedded R&B artist Bobby Brown, who she had met in 1989.

She then became pregnant with Bobbi, who she gave birth to on March 4, 1993.



Her union with Bobby was wild and the pair utilized medications together and charges of abusive behavior at home on the two sides were feature news. 


Before these features turned into a burning-through factor of Whitney's life, she acted in The Bodyguard, in 1992, which acquired overall achievement, and saw her introduction her front of Dolly Parton's I Will Always Love You. 



All through the 1990s Whitney kept on delivering music, regardless of the individual troubles she was confronting, however these reached a critical stage during the 2000s. 

In 2004, an unscripted television show dispatched called Being Bobby Brown, encompassing the everyday goings-on of Bobby and their family. 

The show was a basic fiasco, with some in any event, recommending it was undignified for Whitney to be in it, and she would not show up in a subsequent arrangement, so, all in all it was dropped.

After separating in September 2006, Whitney and Bobby divorced on April 24, 2007 and Whitney was granted custody of Bobbi.


She made a comeback in the music world at this point, releasing I Look To You in 2009, which became her first success in 11 years.


Whitney also did her groundbreaking interview with Oprah Winfrey, where she addressed drug rumours and admitted to having undergone a rehabilitation programme, as well as speaking of alleged domestic abuse in her marriage.

Speaking about her marriage with Oprah Winfrey in 2009, Whitney said: “You put your marijuana, you lace it [with cocaine], you roll it up and you smoke it.

“I had so much money and so much access to what I wanted…

He spit on me. He spit on me. He actually spit on me. And my daughter was coming down the stairs and she saw that."


"I took the phone and I hit him over the head with it."


In 2011, Whitney was readmitted to rehabilitation for drug and alcohol problems, after which she took part in the 2012 film Sparkle, her final film role.


On February 11, 2012, two days after checking into the Beverly Hilton Hotel ahead of the Grammy Awards, Whitney was found unconscious in her bathtub, the police said.


Despite attempts to revive her, Whitney died at 3.55pm that day, and later the coroner found her cause of death to be drowning, atherosclerotic heart disease and cocaine use.

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