Whitney Houston is an American film and television actress, pop, soul, and rhythm and blues singer, producer, and fashion model. One of the most commercially successful female performers in the history of world music.
Her first album, Whitney Houston, released in 1985, became the most successful debut female album in music history — it sold 13 million copies in the United States alone in a year, staying at the top of the prestigious Billboard chart for 14 weeks in a row. Despite the fact that it took several months for the young artist to be noticed, the success of the album was historic. It became the best-selling debut album in the United States of all time.