Bobbi Kristina Brown

Kristina Brown with her mother Whitney Houston (2009)

Bobbi Kristina Brown (born March 4, 1993 in Livingston , New Jersey , † July 26, 2015 in Duluth , Georgia ) was an American singer and actress . She was the daughter of soul singer Whitney Houston and R&B singer Bobby Brown and the granddaughter of gospel and soul singer Cissy Houston .

Live and act

At the age of twelve, Bobbi Kristina Brown played on her father's reality show and was a cheerleader at her school. She had a joint television appearance in New York's Central Park in 2009 with her mother Whitney Houston . As a singer, Brown accompanied her mother at a few concerts in 1999, 2009 and 2012. In 2003 she and her mother recorded the duet Little Drummer Boy for their album One Wish: The Holiday Album . The album was placed on the US Billboard Charts at number 49. In March 2011, photos were published that showed Brown sniffing cocaine , which she denied. After her mother died on February 11, 2012, Brown suffered a nervous breakdown and was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center . In the following years she was a regular user of hard drugs such as heroin , the opioid Roxicodone and the benzodiazepine Xanax . At the Billboard Music Awards in May 2012, she received the Millennium Award for her late mother.

In 2012 she was given a guest role as receptionist Tina on the television series Tyler Perry's For Better or Worse through a friend of her mother's, Tyler Perry .

She announced her engagement in October 2012 and married Nick Gordon in 2013. Her father, Bobby Brown, had the marriage denied through a lawyer in February 2015 ("is not and has never been married to Nick Gordon").

As of February 2014, Brown worked with Daphne Barak on a documentary about her late mother Whitney Houston.

death

Shortly before her death, Brown had voiced fear that she would end up like her mother: "I'll end up like Mom". On January 31, 2015, she was found unconscious in the bathtub of her home after posting her last picture on Instagram just hours earlier . She was first taken to North Fulton Hospital and later to the larger Emory University Hospital. As her condition continued to deteriorate despite all medical efforts, she was finally transferred to a hospice in late June 2015 . She died there four weeks later. The ordered autopsy of the corpse remained without any noticeable external findings. The cause of death was found to be brain damage and a pulmonary embolism caused by the simultaneous abuse of alcohol, marijuana, morphine, and a cocaine substitute. On November 18, 2016, it was announced that Brown's ex-boyfriend, Nick Gordon , had been sentenced in civil proceedings by a judge in Atlanta , Georgia to pay $ 36 million in damages for giving her this toxic cocktail during a "cocaine and alcohol binge." “Should have administered.

Discography

• Little Drummer Boy (Duet with Whitney Houston on their One Wish: The Holiday album )

Television appearances

Reality shows

• 2005: Being Bobby Brown ( Bravo )
• 2012: The Houstons: On Our Own ( Lifetime Television )

Television series

• 2012: Tyler Perry 's For Better or Worse (comedy-drama series, TBS )

Brown appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show in 2009 and on the Oprah's Next Chapter television show in 2012 .

literature

• Ian Halperin : Whitney and Bobbi Kristina . Gallery Books, New York 2015, ISBN 978-1-5011-2074-9

Web links

Commons : Bobbi Kristina Brown  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Bobbi Kristina Brown at Discogs (English)
• Bobbi Kristina Brown at Allmusic (English)
• Bobbi Kristina Brown in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ contactmusic.com: Bobbi Kristina - Biography. Retrieved August 3, 2015.
2. ↑ Bobbi Kristina Brown is dead. Süddeutsche Zeitung, July 27, 2015, accessed on July 27, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Video: Whitney Houston sings: "My Love Is Your Love" With Baby Bobbi Kristina: 1999 Flashback Video , usmagazine.com from Us Weekly , July 27, 2015
4. ^ [1] "Whitney Houston Album & Song Chart History" Billboard 200 for Whitney Houston. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
5. ↑ Bobbi Kristina Brown tweets about alleged cocaine-snorting photos , CBS News, March 3, 2011
6. ↑ Bobbi Kristina Brown: A Timeline of Turmoil and Tragedy . In: The Root , February 2, 2015. Archived from the original on February 3, 2015 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved February 3, 2015.  
7. ↑ Bobbi Kristina Brown Move to New Hospital Amid Fight for Life . In: CNN , February 3, 2015. 
8. ↑ Hard drug user
9. ↑ Drugs, deaths, violence
10. ↑ Billboard Music Awards: Bobbi Kristina Brown Cries at Whitney Houston Tribute , Us Weekly's usmagazine.com , May 15, 2012
11. ↑ Tyler Perry Joins Loved Ones Gathered by Bobbi Kristina Brown Beside at Atlanta-area Hospice , People, June 28, 2015
12. ↑ Bobbi Kristina Brown engaged to adopted brother digitalspy.co.uk, October 12, 2012
13. ^ Newlyweds Bobbi Kristina and Nick Gordon Open Up About Marriage for the First Time . January 30, 2014. Accessed January 31, 2015. 
14. ↑ Larry McShane: Wait, What? Nick Gordon and Bobbi ... . In: Daily News , February 3, 2015. 
15. ↑ ^{a b} I'll end up like Mom ': Bobbi Kristina's tragic last messages reveal she feared she'd die like her mother Whitney Houston , report on MailOne from August 4, 2015 (English)
16. ↑ ^{a b} Bobbi Kristina Brown dies at 22 , CNN, July 28, 2015
17. ↑ Bobbi Kristina Brown: Whitney Houston's daughter is dead! (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on July 27, 2015 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
18. ^ Autopsy result
19. ↑ Cause of death, press report from 3/2016 ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
20. ↑ ulz / AFP / dpa: Whitney Houston's daughter: Ex-boyfriend of Bobbi Kristina Brown sentenced to a million fine. In: Spiegel Online . November 18, 2016, accessed November 18, 2016 .