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===**__Whitney Houston__ By: Keith Elliot Greenberg Whitney Houston became famous in a very short period of time. Her very First album, //Whitney Houston,// sold over about fourteen million copies worldwide. This made it the most popular collection by a black female. She was polite, beautiful, and her dedication to art only added to her fame. Whitney has won to Grammy Awards and several American Music Awards. Unlike other celebrities, Whitney has remained private and modest. She gets satisfaction through her friends, family, and creativity. Success has not changed her the way it changes other people, her family helps her keep a good head, and to try to keep everything in balance. Whitney is very religous and she openly God for her good fortune. She says that she was blessed with her voice and with people that love and care about her. She wants pepole to know that the Whitney onstage is the Whitney as she really is. She was born on August 9, 1963 to a musical, church-going family in Newark, New Jersey. She is the youngest of three children. Whitneys mother, Cissy, was the coir director of their churh, New Hope Baptist church, so they were still involved with the church. Whitneys mother was the first one to record "Midnight Train to Georgia." Whitney sang her first solo at the New Hope Baptist Church. The song was "Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehova" and she says that she was scared to death because it was her first solo. Whitneys mother was her music teacher. **===