Whitney Houston burst onto the music scene in 1985 with her debut album,hich earned numerous industry awards including a Grammy for the single "aving All My Love For You". Since then, the acclaimed artist has releasednly a limited amount of new material, and yet she retains her pre-eminencen the industry and her popularity with music fans. Similarly, as an actress,ince starring in the movie "The Bodyguard" she has chosen to appear in onlyhree other movies to date. And yet she remains in demand among castingirectors and, in 2003, has the choice of whether to star in the remake ofhe French classic "Diva" or to join Pierce Brosnan in a forthcoming Bonddventure.;As Whitney Houston approaches her 40th birthday, this biographyeflects on the journey which has taken her from a problematic childhood in aroken New Jersey home, to becoming the protegee of Arista producer Cliveavis, to today's diva, mired in rumours of peculiar behaviour and drug abuse.e explains how the shy, pretty young girl from a devoutly religiousackground, once dubbed the "Prom Queen of Soul", turned into the subject of