Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012) was an American singer, actress, producer, and model. Houston is the most awarded female act of all time, according to Guinness World Records, and her list of awards include 2 Emmy Awards, 6 Grammy Awards, 30 Billboard Music Awards, 22 American Music Awards, among a total of 415 career awards as of 2010. Houston was also one of the world's best-selling music artists, having sold over 170 million albums and singles worldwide.
惠特尼·休斯頓（1963年8月9日-2012年2月11日），是美國歌手、演員、制作人及模特。根據(jù)吉尼斯世界紀(jì)錄，休斯頓是拿獎(jiǎng)最多的女藝人，她拿過的獎(jiǎng)項(xiàng)包括2個(gè)艾美獎(jiǎng)，6個(gè)格萊美，30個(gè)公告牌音樂獎(jiǎng)。22個(gè)全美音樂獎(jiǎng)等，到2010年為止共拿到了415個(gè)演藝獎(jiǎng)項(xiàng)。休斯頓也是世界上最暢銷的音樂人，專輯加單曲全球共售出1.7億多張。

Inspired by several prominent soul singers in her family, including mother Cissy Houston and cousins Dionne Warwick and the late Dee Dee Warwick, as well as her godmother, Aretha Franklin, Houston began singing with New Jersey church's junior gospel choir at age 11.After she began performing alongside her mother in night clubs in the New York City area, she was discovered by Arista Records label head Clive Davis. As of 2011, Houston has released seven studio albums and three movie soundtrack albums, all of which have diamond, multi-platinum, platinum, or gold certification.
休斯頓的媽媽Cissy Houston、表親Dionne Warwick和已故的Dee Dee Warwick、祖母Aretha Franklin都是著名的靈魂歌手，在他們的激勵(lì)下，她11歲開始就在新澤西教堂的少年福音唱詩班演唱。她跟媽媽一起在紐約夜總會(huì)登臺(tái)表演后，被愛麗絲塔唱片公司的主管Clive Davis發(fā)現(xiàn)。到2011年為止，休斯頓共發(fā)行了7張音樂專輯，3張電影原聲專輯，所有專輯都有鉆石唱片、多白金唱片、白金唱片及金唱片的認(rèn)證。

Houston is the only artist to chart seven consecutive No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hits ("Saving All My Love for You", "How Will I Know", "Greatest Love of All", "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)", "Didn't We Almost Have It All", "So Emotional", and "Where Do Broken Hearts Go"). Houston is the second artist behind Elton John and the only female artist to have two number-one Top Billboard 200 Album awards (formerly "Top Pop Album") on the Billboard magazine year-end charts. Houston's 1985 debut album, Whitney Houston, became the best-selling debut album by a female act at the time of its release. The album was also named Rolling Stone's best album of 1986, and was ranked at number 254 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Her second studio album, Whitney (1987), became the first album by a female artist to debut at number one on the Billboard 200 albums chart. Houston's crossover appeal on the popular music charts as well as her prominence on MTV, starting with her video for "How Will I Know", influenced several African-American female artists to follow in her footsteps.
休斯頓是唯一一位連續(xù)拿下七次公告牌百佳歌曲冠軍的藝人（七首歌分別為："Saving All My Love for You", "How Will I Know", "Greatest Love of All", "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)", "Didn't We Almost Have It All", "So Emotional", and "Where Do Broken Hearts Go"），在公告牌雜志年終200張最佳專輯榜中，有兩張冠軍專題，僅次于艾爾頓·約翰排名第二，是唯一一位拿到這個(gè)成績的女藝人。她于1985年推出的首張同名專輯《Whitney Houston》成為當(dāng)時(shí)女藝人中銷量最好的出道專輯，這張專題也成為1986年滾石最佳專輯，在滾石最佳500專輯中排名254位。她的第二張專輯，1987年發(fā)行的Whitney，成為公告牌200強(qiáng)專輯排行榜的空降冠軍，這是女藝人第一次取得這樣的成績。休斯頓在流行音樂榜跨界表現(xiàn)，以及在以"How Will I Know"為起點(diǎn)的MTV中的突出表現(xiàn)，影響了很多美國非裔女藝人跟隨她的腳步。

Houston's first acting role was as the star of the feature film The Bodyguard (1992). The movie's original soundtrack won the 1994 Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Its lead single, "I Will Always Love You", became the best-selling single by a female artist in music history. With this album, Houston became the first act (solo or group, male or female) to sell more than a million copies of an album within a single week period. The album also makes her the only female act in the top 10 list of the best-selling albums of all time, at number four. Houston continued to star in movies and contribute to their adjoining soundtracks, including the films Waiting to Exhale (1995) and The Preacher's Wife (1996). The Preacher's Wife soundtrack would go on to become the best-selling gospel album in history. Three years after the release of her fourth studio album, My Love Is Your Love (1998), she renewed her recording contract with Arista Records. She released her fifth studio album, Just Whitney, in 2002, and the Christmas-themed One Wish: The Holiday Album in 2003. Amid widespread media coverage of personal and professional turmoil, Houston ended her 14-year marriage to singer Bobby Brown in 2006. In 2009, Houston released her seventh studio album, I Look to You.
休斯頓在影壇嶄露頭角是在電影《保鏢》（1992年）中擔(dān)任女主角。這部電影的原聲拿到了1994年格萊美最佳專輯。專輯中的主打歌《I will always love you》，成為音樂史上女藝人作品的銷量冠軍。因?yàn)檫@張專輯，休斯頓成為所有藝人（包括獨(dú)唱和組合、男藝人和女藝人）中，第一位一周內(nèi)賣出百萬張專輯的人。這張專輯也讓她成為十大唱片銷量排行榜中唯一的一位女藝人，排名第四。休斯頓繼續(xù)著她的演藝事業(yè)，并在電影中演唱，包括1995年的《等待夢(mèng)醒時(shí)分》和1996年的《傳教士的妻子》。《傳教士的妻子》原聲仍然成為了史上最暢銷的福音專輯。在第四張專輯《 My Love Is Your Love》發(fā)行三年后，她跟愛麗絲塔唱片公司續(xù)約。2002年發(fā)行了第五張專輯《Just Whitney》，2003年發(fā)行圣誕專輯《One Wish: The Holiday Album》。在鋪天蓋地關(guān)于她個(gè)人和職業(yè)生涯的混亂報(bào)道中，她在2006年結(jié)束了和歌手鮑比·布朗14年的婚姻。2009年，休斯頓發(fā)行第七張專輯《I Look to You》。

Houston died of causes yet to be determined on February 11, 2012. Later this year her film "Sparkle" will be released into theaters.
休斯頓于2012年2月11日去世，死因暫時(shí)不明。她的電影《火花》今年稍后即將在影院公映。