{"id":936,"date":"2012-03-27T00:53:27","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T00:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graffiti.ntci.on.ca\/2011-12\/?page_id=936"},"modified":"2012-05-23T01:48:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T01:48:28","slug":"whitney-houston","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/graffiti.ntci.on.ca\/2011-12\/spring-2012-issue\/arts-and-culture\/whitney-houston\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitney Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephanie Yang<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Whitney Elizabeth Houston was one of the most influential people in the music industry, and for her to leave us so soon is nothing but another tragedy. Where do I begin with this majestic songbird?\u00a0 All of the Grammys she\u2019d won couldn\u2019t even level with the soaring voice she had. From her first self-debut album, \u201cWhitney Houston\u201d, to her last \u201cI Look to You\u201d, Ms. Houston had countless number one singles and is deemed one of the best-selling music artists in the world. \u201cI Will Always Love You\u201d from \u201cThe Bodyguard\u201d soundtrack took the world by storm, it\u2019s was both Whitney\u2019s signature song and her most iconic performance. Whitney influenced a generation of younger singers, from Christina Aguilera to Mariah Carey, she also had the perfect voice, and the perfect image. Whitney Houston was a gorgeous singer who had sex appeal but always maintained perfect poise. Over the decades, Whitney\u2019s had her ups and downs, she was publicly known for her drug abuse problems and her bitterly ended marriage to bad boy Bobby Brown. It\u2019s clear to say that the public\u2019s view on Whitney\u2019s \u201cgood girl\u201d image has changed after these personal struggles but at the top of her game, she was the greatest. Maybe it was the aggravating number of fans that pushed this talented idol to come back in the spotlight, or maybe Whitney was just sick of all the slander the press had wrote about her, whatever the reason, her comeback was the most anticipated.\u00a0 This is to the incomparable diva, the sweetest miracle, the legendary Whitney Houston, may she rest in peace.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephanie Yang &nbsp; Whitney Elizabeth Houston was one of the most influential people in the music industry, and for her to leave us so soon is nothing but another tragedy. Where do I begin with this majestic songbird?\u00a0 All of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/graffiti.ntci.on.ca\/2011-12\/spring-2012-issue\/arts-and-culture\/whitney-houston\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":894,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-936","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graffiti.ntci.on.ca\/2011-12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graffiti.ntci.on.ca\/2011-12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graffiti.ntci.on.ca\/2011-12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graffiti.ntci.on.ca\/2011-12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graffiti.ntci.on.ca\/2011-12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/graffiti.ntci.on.ca\/2011-12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1244,"href":"https:\/\/graffiti.ntci.on.ca\/2011-12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/936\/revisions\/1244"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graffiti.ntci.on.ca\/2011-12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graffiti.ntci.on.ca\/2011-12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}