Young Whitney Houston: Never-Before-Seen Photos of the ‘One in a Million’ Superstar Before Fame
Young Whitney Houston: Never-Before-Seen Photos of the ‘One in a Million’ Superstar Before Fame
Photographer Bette Marshall’s 1980s shots of the late music icon — featured in this week’s issue of PEOPLE — show her in a new light
January 9, 2022
by Brianne Tracy
Marshall Meets Her Muse
In an instant, photographer Bette Marshall can be taken back 40 years, to the first time she saw Whitney Houston perform. 
“This beautiful girl in a white dress stood up and sang ‘Tomorrow’ from Annie,” Marshall, 82, recalls of the then-18-year-old’s showstopping moment in 1982 at mom Cissy’s New York City concert. “My husband and I looked at each other and said, ‘That is a superstar.'”
Afterward Marshall asked the Houstons for permission to take day-in-the-life photos of Whitney, beginning a four-year journey with the singer, who died in 2012 at age 48.
In her upcoming book Young Whitney (out Feb. 8, three days before the 10th anniversary of Whitney’s death), Marshall shares stories about the star as well as never-before-seen images.
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