Whitney Houston was an American singer and actress (1963-2012). Dubbed "The Voice" and considered one of the greatest and most influential vocalists of all time, she released her multi-platinum self-titled debut album—featuring the No. 1 singles Saving All My Love for You (for which she won her first Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance), How Will I Know, and Greatest Love of All—in 1985, following it up with Whitney in 1986. That multi-platinum release boasted four more chart-topping smashes—the Grammy-winning I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me), as well as Didn’t We Almost Have It All, So Emotional, and Where Do Broken Hearts Go—and made her the first female artist to debut at No. 1 on the US albums chart.

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After the release of her third album, I’m Your Baby Tonight, in 1990, and performing a historic rendition of US national anthem at Super Bowl XXV the following year, Houston starred in the film The Bodyguard in 1992. The soundtrack album The Bodyguard became the best-selling album by a female artist and soundtrack album in history, with its No.1 single I Will Always Love You winning two Grammys and topping the Billboard singles chart for a record 14 weeks.

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Houston went on to both star in and perform hits from the soundtracks for the films Waiting to Exhale and The Preacher’s Wife in 1995 and 1996. After releasing the albums My Love is Your Love (1998), Just Whitney (2002), and I Look to You (2009), and appearing in the 2012 remake of the 1976 film Sparkle, she passed away in 2012 at the age of 49. She was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame posthumously in 2020 and the 2022 film Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody chronicled her life.