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Where was Whitney Houston born and raised?

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Where was Whitney Houston born and raised?

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Whitney Houston was born in a rough neighborhood in the projects of Newark, New Jersey. She is the third and youngest child of John and gospel singer Cissy Houston.[ Her mother, along with cousin Dionne Warwick and godmother Aretha Franklin are all notable figures in the gospel, rhythm and blues, and soul genres. Houston was raised a Baptist, but was also exposed to the Pentecostal church. After the 1967 Newark riots, the family moved to a middle class area in West Orange, New Jersey when she was four. At the age of eleven, Houston began to follow in her mothers footsteps and started performing as a soloist in the junior gospel choir at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, where she also learned to play the piano. Her first solo performance in the church was “Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah”. When Houston was a teenager, her parents divorced and she continued to live with her mother. She attended a Roman Catholic single-sex high school, Mount Saint Dominic Academy, where she met her b

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Whitney Appeared at the Grammy Awards, posted on 10 Feb 2009 by admin Whitney Houston’s Triumphant Comeback, posted on 10 Feb 2009 by admin Whitney Houston presents an award at the BET Honors, posted on 18 Jan 2009 by admin. Sources: www.whitney-houston.

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