Whitney Houston

Whitney Houston’s new album will be released worldwide Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009 on Arista Records, and released locally through Sony Music Entertainment Phils.

This is Whitney’s 7th studio album. Since her 1985 self-titled debut, she has built an illustrious career that has generated over 170 million combined worldwide sales of albums, singles and videos. Cited by the Guinness Book of World Records as music’s “most awarded female artist of all time,” with an unsurpassed tally of 411 awards, inclusive of six Grammy Awards, two Emmy awards, 23 American Music Awards and 16 Billboard Music Awards…Houston remains a singular force in music today.

In the twenty-five years since she recorded her history-making debut album, Whitney Houston has become a superstar, a legend, an icon. One of the best-selling female artists of all time, she has sold over 140 million albums worldwide. She has been cited as an influence by the likes of Mariah Carey, Christina Aguilera, Jennifer Hudson, and Leona Lewis, and last year, Rolling Stone listed Houston as one of the “100 Greatest Singers of All Time.”

But when her longtime mentor Clive Davis, currently Chief Creative Officer of Sony Music Entertainment Worldwide, first approached her about recording her first album since 2002’s “Just Whitney,” Houston didn’t think that she wanted to get back in the game.

“When Clive called me and said, ‘Are you ready?,’ I said, ‘Ready for what?,’” she recalls. “I didn’t particularly care for the way the industry was going or the music I was hearing. What I saw in the videos by most of the female artists – it was like, I’m just not doing that. I was raised in this business, I was raised in gospel singing, and I wasn’t about to change what people about me.

“My career and my life moved very fast,” she continues. “At that time I was just hitting my 40s, and I basically just wanted to be a mother and a homebody.”