According to TMZ,
Paramedics were called to the Beverly Hilton today when Houston was found unresponsive in her hotel room ... CNN is reporting that Ray J found her dead at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. The singer famously battled drug addiction for years.
Houston won two Emmy Awards, six Grammy Awards, 30 Billboard Music Awards, 22 American Music Awards during her record-breaking career. Her album "Whitney" was the first female album to ever debut at #1 on the Billboard Charts. She has sold 200 Million albums world wide.
However Zimbabwe's very own, a hip hop legend, Metaphysics shared his own story and grief after receiving the sad news and in his own words,
In all my years of being in the entertainment industry, I have hosted prime time tv shows , I have done feature films, I have hosted radio, rocked millions of people - nothing has ever compared to the response I got from being a two second extra in a Whitney Huston Video "I Learned from the best" RIP