Whitney Houston was a pop music queen in the 1980s and 1990s who reigned over the charts with hits like "I Will Always Love You." She starred in the 1992 film "The Bodyguard" and its soundtrack. However, her career was later ravaged by drug use which impacted her voice and appearance. She died in 2012 at the age of 48 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. Her death became a major news story in China where she was not well known during her lifetime but became a topic of interest after passing away.