Whitney Houston

Houston, goddaughter to Aretha Franklin, released her eponymous debut album in 1985. Her subsequent 1987 release, Whitney, gave her a number one the in Billboard 200 albums chart, but it wasn’t until her 1992 album The Bodyguard, that she shot to superstardom.

Smash hit ballads such as ‘I Have Nothing’, and ‘I Will Always Love You’ made her the most successful African American female singer in the world.

She continued to release material throughout the nineties and naughties , her most recent album being I Look to You, in 2009.