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Urgent! Whitney Houston Sounds Like a Truck
July 29, 2008 – What happens when a 5 octave diva becomes obsessed with smokes and drugs? It’s an all 'Scatman Crothers revival! Britain’s Daily Mirror says Whitney Houston was almost 'unrecognizable' when she started recording her new album. |
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Natalie Cole has Hepatitis C
 July 23, 2008 – Our thoughts go out to Natalie Cole today. The singer has just been diagnosed with Hepatitis C. In a statement from her publicist the singer said, “I’ve been so fortunate to have learned so much from my past experiences,” More
Roselyn Brown Shares her Best Nights!
 July 29, 2008 – Roselyn Brown is pumped! The Smooth Jazz flautist/vocalist has just had her CD release party for her great new ‘Emancipation’ CD, “A great deal of work goes into making an event like this happen!” More. |
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The paper says, “She was smoking a lot and taking a lot of drugs. Her voice was almost unrecognizable.”
Interestingly, this is the same lady who was once called “The Voice.” The good news is Clive Davis sent Whitney to singing lessons and she’s now in top form. Well, that sounds like a spin from the inside. It's hard to repair that stuff!
A source told the Mirror, "Thousands have been shelled out to train her back up to the original. But now she sounds terrific - she is going to blow everybody away.” The new Whitney album comes out in November. – By John Beaudin
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Lewis Paying Tribute to Abraham Lincoln
 July 27, 2008 - A musical piece paying tribute to next year's 200th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's birth (1809). The musical composition will get its inspiration from Lincoln's life and musicians from the 19th century. More
The LaBelle Reunion, Will It Really Happen?
 July 27, 2008 - Trio Labelle, including famous singers Patti LaBelle, Nona Hendryx and Sarah Dash is reunited after 32 years and is currently in a studio working on their next still untitled album. More |
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Whitney Houston’s Career Comeback Hit A Rough Patch
May 7, 2008 - Whitney Houston, who is currently 44 years-old, isn’t anymore the star she used to be. Her career is a shambles. Indeed the former drug-addicted diva’s 15-year-old daughter Bobbi Kristina (whose father is former funk star Bobby Brown) attempted suicide last February.
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Hathaway To Open Detroit Jazz Fest
 July 24, 2008 - Performers have been announced for this year's Detroit International Jazz Festival, set to to take place from August 29 to September 1 , 2008. More
Stewart Lookin’ to Kick Jude Law’s Ass
 July 23, 2008 – Every dad gets a little possessive when someone hurts his little girl. Rod Stewart is in a fighting mood on hearing his daughter Kimberly’s ex, Jude Law is rebounding with Lily Cole. More. |
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The singer seemed to have overcome her personal life problems (a tumultuous wedding and divorce from Bobby Brown and a long addiction to drugs) and was a highly anticipated headliner at the Plymouth Jazz Festival, that took recently place (April 27th) on the Caribbean island of Tobago. This concert was supposed to re-launch the singer’s career after a lengthy layoff. However, it unfortunately turned out to be a lackluster performance. Whitney disappointed fans, when she lost her voice, as she was unable to hit the high notes of her hit single “I Will Always Love You”, and ended her performance of seven songs after only 30 minutes before a sold-out international crowd. And there were other embarrassments that evening. Paid a reported amount of $3 million for the gig, the ex-Mrs. Brown banned the many members of the press on site, refusing interviews and photos and ordering the media to stay 200 feet from the stage during her performance. And on top of that, the once-golden-voiced diva did not have the slightest clue on exactly where she was, as she kept on saying: “I love you Trinidad!”, despite performing in the southern Caribbean island of Tobago.
Whitney, who is reported to date famous American actor, songwriter, record producer and singer Ray J, has been working on a new studio album since last year. The still untitled is slated to for a release in November 2008. The album should include recorded tunes with famous R&B singers Ne-Yo and R.Kelly and rapper Akon among other artists.
However, after such a long time away from stage and this missed concert in Tobago, Whitney Houston will have to work a lot on her current flat and listless voice to be able to bounce back and regain the golden voice she commanded at the height of her career.
Let us hope for Whitney that she will be able to get herself together soon! - By Akbar Nour |
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Whitney
Houston and Tony Bennett Plan Duet
October
6, 2004 - There is a possibility all the damage control is paying off for Whitney
Houston . Last month she wowed everyone at the World Music Awards with a medley
including "I Believe in You and Me" and "I Will Always Love You,"
and she looked healthy. During her press conference backstage Celine
Dion halted proceedings to listen to Houston's set, getting down on her hands
and knees with tears in her eyes and proclaiming, "I just want to say how
amazing Whitney is. She's had such a difficult life." Ok, that was just plain
weird! Houston is bouncing back though she recently made it known of her dream
to sing a duet with Tony Bennett and he answered her call. Bennett told "Access
Hollywood'' that he and Houston are going to record a "wonderful ballad''
together. He says he asked Houston to record a song with him after a fan heard
her say on Access Hollywood that she wanted to sing with him. He says "I
couldn't believe it.'' Bennett says he will work with Houston "wherever it
is convenient for her.'' Also last month it was reported that Houston will reunite
with Clive Davis for the next album. He's the man that discovered her . Most of
her troubles started two years ago when she appeared paper thin at a Michael Jackson
event and three days later things got worse when she failed to show up for another
concert, the rumors flew that she was dead. Lets not forget all the talk of drugs. Lets wish her a healthy come back!
Whitney
Houston and Clive Davis Reunite
September
17, 2004 - It could be the one thing that brings legitimacy back to Whitney Houston's
career - a reunion with the man that discovered her, Clive Davis. The two are
back together for the first time in five years with plans for Davis to produce
her next album. The album which will be her seventh studio recording for Davis'
Arista Records is rumored to have the singer return to a simpler, adult contemporary
sound that put her on the map in the mid eighties. Davis, was honored Wednesday
evening (September 15, 2004) at the World Music Awards in Las Vegas where he received
the first ever non-performer Outstanding Contribution to the Music Industry Award.
Houston flew in for the broadcast to pay tribute to Davis and received several
roaring standing ovations. The two have made musical history together with Whitney
holding the record for seven consecutive number 1's in Billboard's Hot 100 Chart.
Cole,
Houston and Warwick Set To Tour Together
May
21, 2004 - Get ready for a 1-2-3 Diva punch this summer. Natalie
Cole has told Access Hollywood that she'll share the stage with Whitney
Houston and Dionne Warwick for a summer
tour. Cole and Houston are good friends and both have had substance abuse problems,
Cole has been clean for years. As for Houston, Cole says she's "doing really
great,'' and has a "great desire to really get healthy and get well."
Houston recently checked herself into a drug rehabilitation centre and is reportedly
clean and sober. The tour will start in Germany in July.
Whitney
Houston Adds Family Touch To Christmas CD
October
28, 2003 - Whitney Houston seems to understand that Christmas is all about family.
The singer has invited her ten year old daughter Bobbi Kristina to sing on her
holiday CD simply titled "One Wish - The Holiday Album" due in stores
November 18th. The 10 year old sings a duet with her mother on "Little Drummer
Boy." Even though the elder Houston has sung many Christmas tunes in the
past on special compilation CD's this is her first actual full length holiday
album.
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