Whitney Houston (Aug. 9, 1963–Feb. 11, 2012)
By Stevie Nicks
''I saw her do an interview where she basically said, 'I'd had a thousand number-one hit records, I'd had huge albums, I'd toured the world, I'd met all the most famous people in the world, and I fell in love with this guy,' and she said, 'You know what, all I cared about was being in love. All I cared about was my husband. Nothing else mattered.'' If you've ever been that deeply in love, where you're ready to just give everything up, then you can kind of understand that. Especially because she had pretty much topped every pinnacle.''
Houston died in L.A. of accidental drowning and effects of heart disease and cocaine use.
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