(CNN) -- The news broke on the eve of Grammy Awards, the music industry's biggest night: The woman with the pitch-perfect voice who once reigned as the queen of pop at the awards show had died. Whitney Houston was found dead Saturday by her bodyguard on the fourth floor of an upscale Beverly Hills hotel where only hours later she was to attend a pre-Grammy bash hosted by her longtime mentor, Clive Davis. Her death, at age 48, was the final chapter of a storied career that began with the nurturing by superstar cousin Dionne Warwick, soared in the 1980s and 1990s with one record-setting achievement after another, stalled as her drug use and marriage to Bobby Brown made for tabloid fodder and was on the rebound with a highly anticipated star turn.
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Whitney Houston's death rocks the music industry on the eve of its biggest night
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Her death, at age 48, was the final chapter of the storied career that began in the 1980s
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Houston's career stalled as her drug use and marriage to Bobby Brown made for tabloid fodder
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She was working to turn her career around with a star turn in the upcoming film, "Sparkle"
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