Whitney Houston was born August 9, 1963 and died when she was forty eight on February 11, 2012. She died drowning due to her drug intoxication. Whitney Houston was found dead on February 11, 2012, in her guest room at the Beverly Hilton, in Beverly Hills, California. Reports showed that she had accidentally drowned in the bathtub, with heart disease and cocaine use listed as the contributing factors. She was an American singer, actress, model, and producer. She released seven studio albums and soundtrack albums, all of which have diamond, multi platinum, platinum or gold certification. Her debut album, Whitney Houston, became the best selling debut album by any woman in history. Her second studio, Whitney, became the first album to debut number one on the Billboard 200 album chart. Whitney Houston’s first …show more content…
The song was executed beautifully and in many ways, perfect. What sometimes has been forgotten all these years, especially by many young fans who may have not witnessed it live, is the rather pointless controversy that followed. People were still buzzing from the anthem in the days following, so much so that it brought to light a rather controversial question: Did she lip-sync the whole thing? The question came when the engineer for the event revealed to USA Today that she was singing alongside an NFL-mandated-pre-recorded of the anthem, but that it was the non-live version that TV viewers were hearing. It stoked a bit of a storm but the NFL explained not long after that relying solely on a live performance was simply too risky. Meanwhile, Houston’s team was stayed relatively non-committal on the whole thing. The musical director of Whitney Houston later confirmed that she was singing into a dead mic and the star came in for some criticism for it, unfairly so. Last year ESPN’s Danyel Smith explained why there were no other options in a fascinating article about the