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Sixty-one years ago today, Whitney Houston was born. Raised in Latest Jersey with a family stuffed with stars—her two-time Grammy Award-winning mother sang backup for Aretha Franklin and cousin Dione Warwick was a ‘60s pop star—she turned to Chaka Khan records to dial up her angelic notes. Taking a page out of her book for each vocals and wonder, Houston scored a brief modeling profession under Wilhelmenia after being scouted at a performance at Carnegie Hall. Nonetheless beautiful she was: “Too fussy for me,” she told ESSENCE in her 1990 cover story. “You stand there in front of the camera and just grin.”
Now, looking back, the scout had an actual eye. In 1984 (a yr before she released...
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