The official coroner's report showed that she had accidentally drowned in the bathtub, with heart disease and cocaine use listed as contributing factors. On February 11, 2012, Houston was found dead in her guest room at the Beverly Hilton, in Beverly Hills, California. The latter's soundtrack became the best-selling gospel album in history. Houston made other high-profile film appearances and contributed to their soundtracks, including Waiting to Exhale (1995) and The Preacher's Wife (1996). The album makes her the top female act in the top 10 list of the best-selling albums of all time, at number four. With the soundtrack, which received the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1994, Houston became the first act (solo or group, male or female) to sell more than a million copies of an album within a single week period under Nielsen SoundScan system. She performed the lead single from the film's original soundtrack, "I Will Always Love You", which received the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and became the best-selling single by a woman in music history.
Houston made her screen acting debut as Rachel Marron in the romantic thriller film The Bodyguard (1992). Her second studio album, Whitney (1987), became the first album by a woman to debut at number one on the Billboard 200 albums chart. Rolling Stone named it the best album of 1986, and ranked it at number 254 on the magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Houston's self-titled debut album (1985) became the best-selling debut album by a woman in history. She is the second artist behind Elton John and the only woman to have two number-one Billboard 200 Album awards (formerly "Top Pop Albums") on the Billboard magazine year-end charts. Houston is the only artist to chart seven consecutive No. Houston's crossover appeal on the popular music charts, as well as her prominence on MTV, starting with her video for "How Will I Know", influenced several African American women artists who follow in her footsteps. She released seven studio albums and two soundtrack albums, all of which have diamond, multi-platinum, platinum, or gold certification. Houston is one of the best-selling music artists of all-time, with 200 million records sold worldwide. In 2009, Guinness World Records cited her as the most awarded female act of all-time. Whitney Elizabeth Houston (Aug– February 11, 2012) was an American singer, actress, producer, and model.
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