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Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)" won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female. It also took the American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Single.
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Directed by Joel Schumacher, The Phantom of the Opera stars Gerard Butler, who had no singing experience.
December 12, 1992: The Bodyguard movie soundtrack took over the top of the US Hot 200 album chart in the US.
The Bodyguard's first six songs rank among Whitney Houston's best efforts. "I Have Nothing," "Queen of the Night," "Run to You," and especially her cover of "I'm Every Woman" are all first-rate urban pop songs.
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November 25, 1995: Whitney Houston debuted at Number 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 with "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)."
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November 17, 1992: The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack was released.
The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack LP followed Whitney Houston's cover of Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You" to the top of the charts, and once they got there, neither the single nor the album budged for weeks.
October 26, 2001: The science fiction film Donnie Darko, starring Jake Gyllenhaal , premieres in US theaters. The movie features Gary Jules' haunting cover of Tears For Fears' 1982 song "Mad World."
"Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)" fell in the middle of a remarkable seven-song run of US #1 hits for Whitney Houston that were spread across her first two albums.
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Whitney Houston performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" right before the start of Super Bowl XXV in 1991.
"Exhale (Shoop Shoop)" by Whitney Houston was featured on the soundtrack for the film Waiting to Exhale. It was released as the lead single from the soundtrack on November 7, 1995.
The old jokes goes: “I’ve just taken my wife on holiday to the Caribbean.” “Jamaica?” “No, she was happy to come.”
May 17, 2017: Chris Cornell was found dead from an apparent suicide at the age of 52.
Chris Cornell, the unmistakable voice and front-man of the bands Soundgarden and Audioslave, died overnight in Detroit at the age of 52.
April 23, 1977: Thelma Houston's disco plea "Don't Leave Me This Way" hit Number 1 in America.
“Don’t Leave Me This Way” was more than a year old by the time Thelma Houston got to it.
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On February 23rd, 2000, Santana claimed eight trophies, including the highly coveted Record of the Year and Album of the Year awards, for his blockbuster Supernatural LP.
February 15, 2004: Norah Jones had the Number 1 album in the UK, Feels Like Home.
Norah Jones’ debut Blue Note album Come Away With Me had been the archetypal word of mouth hit.
February 11, 2012: Whitney Houston was found dead in the bathtub of her suite at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles.
Whitney Houston died at the age of 48 on February 11, 2012, in Los Angeles at a Beverly Hilton hotel where a Grammy party was being held by Davis.
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January 9, 2006: The Phantom of the Opera became the longest-running Broadway show.
Cast and crew of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical "The Phantom of the Opera" made their way into the Guinness World Records 2013 Edition as the longest-running show in the history of Broadway -musical or play-having performed over 10,000 performances at the Majestic Theatre in New York City, New York, USA.
December 22, 2000: The Coen Brothers movie "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" hit theaters with a Grammy-winning soundtrack.
Would you believe one of the best-selling country music albums since the turn of the millennium is a movie soundtrack? Believe it.
December 12, 1971: Diana Ross began filming for the movie Lady Sings the Blues.
My first reaction when I learned that Diana Ross had been cast to play Billie Holiday was a quick and simple one: I didn't think she could do it.
November 28, 1992: Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You," a cover of a Dolly Parton song from 1974, goes to Number 1 in America.
Country icon Dolly Parton was behind the wheel of her car in 1992 when she heard an unmistakable a capella vibrato on the radio, though it took a moment for the tune to register.
