Whitney Houston dead at 48
Whitney Houston Pop superstar Whitney Houston has died aged 48.
The hitmaker, who has been in the media for reasons other than her music in the last few years, was found dead at a hotel in LA on Saturday afternoon by her bodyguard.
Emergency services called to the scene were unable to resuscitate the star, and pronounced her dead at the scene at 4pm.
The singer was staying in the Beverly Hilton, preparing for her long-time friend and mentor Clive Davis’ annual pre-Grammy party.
Houston was one of the world’s biggest selling female music stars, with the height of her career coming in the early 1990s when she topped the chart for a record number of weeks with a cover of Dolly Parton’s I Will Always Love You, and had a staring role in the film The Bodyguard, which spawned the hit song. Houston’s music scored her hit after hit, making a straight seven number ones in the US with the likes of The Greatest Love of All, I Wanna Dance with Somebody and Saving All My Love for You.
Reports have suggested that she was in talks with Simon Cowell to be a mentor on the new series of The X Factor in the US, and meanwhile she was working on the film Sparkle with Jordan Sparks, and it is said that her scenes were completed.
Houston’s death is not being treated as suspicious.
