Houston, 48, was found in her room at the Beverly Hilton, in Beverly Hills, Calif., a few hours before the annual pre-Grammy gala held at the hotel by Clive Davis, the Arista Records founder who discovered and helped mold her into one of the pre-eminent pop stars of the last 30 years.įrom Lil Nas X to Mozart to Esperanza Spalding here is what we loved listening to this year. The bottom finally came on Saturday, when Ms. Houston’s fall attracted so much notice because she had so far to go, down from the clouds into the abyss. When her greatest years were behind her, she remained in the public eye as something thornier - a drug addict and a casualty of the tabloid and reality-television era, ill-equipped for ever-increasing levels of scrutiny. She was a sunbeam - radiant, perspective altering, impossible to touch. That is how she arrived in the mid-1980s, a flawless vocalist singing impeccable songs and singlehandedly inserting gospel and classic soul theatrics into mainstream pop. Whitney Houston died as a cautionary tale, but the most painful cautionary tales are about people who were heroes once.
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