At 3:55 on Saturday, pop legend Whitney Houston was pronounced dead at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. She will be greatly missed by her fellow singers and, of course, her crazy music fans like me. The 48-year-old star singer of I Look To You and I Wanna Dance With Somebody died the night before the Grammys and already rumors are circulating.  I, like many other people, am wondering if her death has something to do with The Grammy Awards the next day. Although only a short time has past since her tragic demise, I have heard varying ideas of the cause of death (since it wasn’t disclosed to the public) from she drowned in the bathtub to she overdosed because she was depressed. Even with the short notice, her talent lived on that amazing night, with Jennifer Hudson honoring the six-time Grammy winner at the awards ceremony with a beautiful tribute performance.
Going back in time, most people know that Whitney Houston has struggled with drug problems in the past. There has been gazillions of debates recently about whether her substance abuse started before or after her marriage to bad-boy R&B singer Bobby Brown. Personally, I think that it was her popularity combined with her rocky marriage that sent her looking for the wrong kind of relaxation. Whitney Houston had checked into rehab various times during her life, but in 2005 her mother staged an intervention. She checked into rehab and stayed clean for several years. She even attempted a comeback in 2009 with the album, I Look To You. Fans who followed Whitney Houston and her music would have known that she planned to do a remake of the 1976 drama, “Sparkle” with Jordin Sparks. She was also offered a position as a judge on the amazing show The X Factor. So how did a singer with so much going for her suddenly get yanked from our world? No one knows yet the cause of her death, but one things for sure: her music will live on forever in our hearts.

~CarsonLee Harper