Didn't We Almost Have It All

Whitney Houston was the first of any musical act -- male or female, solo or group -- to sell more a million copies of an album in a single week.
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Two Emmys.

Six Grammys.

Over four hundred career awards, a record eight American Music Awards in a single year.

Whitney Houston was the first of any musical act -- male or female, solo or group -- to sell more a million copies of an album in a single week.

The only one ever to gain the #1 Billboard spot seven times in a row.

If that weren't enough, she had a successful career in movies.

But she drowned in a bathtub with cocaine and other drugs in her system eighteen months ago.

Imagine how much more beauty she might have brought to the world if she hadn't.

She would have turned fifty today.

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