Houston began her career when she was still just a teenager, providing backing vocals for Chaka Khan and Lou Rawls among others.
Her string of number one hits began in 1985 with Saving All My Love For You. In 1986 she had a hit with How Will I Know, and The Greatest Love of All, In 1987 she had success once again with I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me), and Didn't We Almost Have it All. In 1988 she released So Emotional, and Where Do Broken Hearts Go. In 1990 she had I'm Your Baby Tonight. And finally, in 1991, her ninth number 1 was All the Man That I Need.
Sadly, Houston passed away in 2012
Other notable events for February 23:
-Dire Straits played their first American show on Feb. 23, 1979 in Boston, Massachusetts
-The Smiths topped the UK charts on Feb. 23, 1985 with their album Meat is Murder, dethroning Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A.
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