Her first two albums reached the number one spot on the Billboard charts and she had seven consecutive No. 1 singles. From there her career continued to rise, and she expanded into acting and producing, touring to huge crowds around the world until her death in 2012 at ...
Hopkins, Sam “Lightnin”(1912-1982) –Musician– He was born in Centerville Texas. When he was eight years old he made his first guitar from a cigar box with chicken wire strings. In 1920 he played at a country picnic with the great “Blind” Lemon Jefferson. It left a lasting impress...
It seemed inevitable that Houston would attract the attention of Arista’s Clive Davis, who had revived the careers of both Warwick and Franklin, and who signed Houston to her first recording contract when she was still a teen-ager. She had started as a child singing backup in her mother’...