18 Feb 2025

Music feature: Whitney Houston

From Afternoons, 2:33 pm on 18 February 2025

80s and 90s mainstream pop was blessed with singers with big, powerful voices: Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Bruce Dickinson, to name a few. But for many Whitney Houston is the iconic vocalist of her time. 

In 2023 Rolling Stone named her one of the greatest singers of all time, second only to Aretha Franklin. 

Up until her death in 2012 she was one of the biggest selling female solo artists of the 80s, 90s and 2000s. 

Whitney definitely deserves a feature to herself. Our guide to her music and her career is Josh Ellery.