歌手のホイットニー・ヒューストン
さんが急死しました。48歳でした。
AP通信などによりますと、アメリカの歌手・ホイットニーさんが急死したと関係者が11日に明らかにしました。48歳でした。死因や死亡した場所など詳しいことはまだ明らかになっていません。ホイットニーさんは映画「ボディーガード」の主題歌を歌うなど、1980年代から1990年代にかけてヒットを連発しましたが、その後、薬物乱用のトラブルが相次ぎました。
Whitney Houston Dies （RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty）
http://www.rferl.org/content/united_states_music_houston_whitney/24481124.html
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U.S. singer Whitney Houston who rose to stardom with such songs as "How Will I Know," Saving All My Love" and "I Will Always Love You" has died at age 48.
Publicist Kristen Foster broke the news of Houston's death but did not mention the cause.
The Beverly Hills police said Houston was found in a room at a Beverly Hills hotel and was declared dead when rescue officials arrived.
Houston was popular in the 1980s and 1990s both for her music and for films such as "The Bodyguard" where she starred opposite Kevin Costner.
But drug use and a turbulent marriage to rapper Bobby Brown took its toll on her and most of the publicity surrounding her in recent years centered on her personal problems.
compiled from agency reports
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Whitney Houston was to attend Clive Davis' party tonight
（Los Angeles Times）
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February 11, 2012 | 5:50pm
Whitney Houston was among the A-list performers planning to attend veteran music mogul Clive Davis’ annual pre-Grammy party Saturday at the Beverly Hilton hotel, the see-and-be-seen event of the year.
Earlier this week, the 79-year-old Davis perused page after page of guest lists in a bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel, where he conducts business when he’s in the Los Angeles area. Among those Houston was expected to rub elbows with: Quincy Jones, Tony Bennett, Akon, Cee Lo Green, Miley Cyrus, Sean "Puffy" Combs, Jennifer Hudson, Jackson Browne, Elvis Costello and Diana Krall.
“It’s a great time where everybody can set down their swords, so to speak,” Davis said, seated on an overstuffed divan next to a coffee table cluttered with papers, CDs and videos. “I was grateful that, inviting them to my home, that they would feel comfortable and just keep coming back, and they've kept coming back every year to where it's expanded to be this incredible haven for musicians.”
Davis, whose track record in the music business stretches back half a century to when he was a lawyer at Columbia Records, was instrumental in bringing Houston into the public eye, along with such stars as Bruce Springsteen, Carlos Santana, Patti Smith, Barry Manilow, Alicia Keys and Sean Combs.
Davis has been involved in producing records for some “American Idol” winners and is working with the first-season winner of Simon Cowell's “X Factor” show, Melanie Amaro.
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