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Whitney Houston’s Daughter Bobbie Kristina Brown Found ‘Unresponsive’ in Bathtub

Bobbi Kristina Brown, daughter of Bobby Brown and the late Whitney Houston, was found unresponsive in her Atlanta home on Saturday. The Roswell Police, along with Roswell Fire and Rescue, responded to a 911 call reporting 21-year-old Brown unresponsive at 10:25 AM, according to a police press release. Brown’s husband, Nick Gordon, and a friend found Brown unresponsive in a bathtub and began CPR, according to police. Police took over life-saving measures until rescue personnel arrived. Brown was then transported to Atlanta’s North Fulton Hospital. According to TMZ, doctors have stabilized Brown’s breathing and she is in the I.C.U. UPDATE: Bobbi Kristina never regained consciousness and passed away on July 26, 2015. (from Yahoo News)

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Whitney Houston Biopic “Whitney” Premieres On Lifetime Channel Tonight

Check out the trailer for the highly anticipated biopic on the life of Whitney Houston – “Whitney” – which premieres on Lifetime Channel tonight, January 17, at 8pm ET.

Yaya DaCosta stars as Whitney Houston, Arlen Escarpeta plays Bobby Brown and Mark Rolston is music exec Clive Davis. The project marks Angela Bassett’s directorial debut.

Whitney’s mother Cissy Houston has denounced the film and the producers had troubles securing the rights to Whitney’s spectacular vocals. So Grammy nominated dance artist and Broadway actress Deborah Cox was brought in to re-record several of Houston’s iconic songs.

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Music: “Whitney Houston Live: Her Greatest Performances”

Just got word that a week from tomorrow – November 10th – Legacy Records (division of Sony Records)  will release Whitney Houston Live: Her Greatest Performances.

You can pre-order the release on Amazon now.

The six-time Grammy-award winning singer’s first-ever live album features the most memorable live performances from her storied career.

The package is not only a CD but DVD, which includes videos of Houston’s most unforgettable performances.

The project is produced by legendary Clive Davis, who oversaw that the audio and visual content have undergoing state-of-the-art restoration and remastering.

Track listings for both discs:

Whitney Houston Live: Her Greatest Performances CD:

1. Home (The Merv Griffin Show,1983)
2. You Give Good Love (The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson,1985)
3. How Will I Know (The Brit Awards,1987)
4. One Moment In Time (The 31st Annual Grammy® Awards, 1989)
5. Greatest Love Of All (That’s What Friends Are For: Arista Records 15th Anniversary Concert,1990)
6. I Wanna Dance With Somebody (That’s What Friends Are For: Arista Records 15th Anniversary Concert,1990)
7. The Star Spangled Banner (Super Bowl XXV, 1991)
8. All The Man That I Need (Welcome Home Heroes,1991)
9. I’m Your Baby Tonight(Welcome Home Heroes, 1991)
10. A Song For You (Welcome Home Heroes, 1991)
11. Medley: I Loves You, Porgy/And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going/I Have Nothing (The 21st Annual American Music Awards, 1994)
12. I’m Every Woman (The Concert For A New South Africa, 1994)
13. I Will Always Love You (The Concert For A New South Africa, 1994)
14. My Love Is Your Love (Late Show With David Letterman, 1998)
15. I Believe In You And Me (The 16th Annual World Music Awards, 2004)
16. I Didn’t Know My Own Strength (The Oprah Winfrey Show, 2009)

Whitney Houston Live: Her Greatest Performances DVD:

1. Home (The Merv Griffin Show,1983)
2. You Give Good Love (The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson,1985)
3. How Will I Know (The Brit Awards,1987)
4. One Moment In Time (The 31st Annual Grammy® Awards, 1989)
5. Greatest Love Of All (That’s What Friends Are For: Arista Records 15th Anniversary Concert,1990)
6. I Wanna Dance With Somebody (That’s What Friends Are For: Arista Records 15th Anniversary Concert,1990)
7. The Star Spangled Banner (Super Bowl XXV, 1991)
8. All The Man That I Need (Welcome Home Heroes,1991)
9. I’m Your Baby Tonight(Welcome Home Heroes, 1991)
10. A Song For You (Welcome Home Heroes, 1991)
11. Medley: I Loves You, Porgy/And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going/I Have Nothing (The 21st Annual American Music Awards, 1994)
12. I’m Every Woman (The Concert For A New South Africa, 1994)
13. I Will Always Love You (The Concert For A New South Africa, 1994)
14. My Love Is Your Love (Music Video – BONUS DVD-ONLY MUSIC VIDEO)
15. My Love Is Your Love (Late Show With David Letterman, 1998)
16. When You Believe (with Mariah Carey) (The 71st Annual Academy Awards, 1999 – BONUS DVD-ONLY DUET PERFORMANCE))
17. I Believe In You And Me (The 16th Annual World Music Awards, 2004)
18. I Didn’t Know My Own Strength (The Oprah Winfrey Show, 2009)

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Remix of the Day: Whitney Houston “Queen of the Night” Ryan Skyy 2014 Radio Edit

I love Tuesdays. It’s always new music day 🙂

Via press release:

“Queen of the Night”, the uptempo pop rock/dance number that appeared on The Bodyguard soundtrack and gave Whitney Houston her 5th #1 hit on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart, has been reproduced by DJ/Producer Ryan Skyy to celebrate the upcoming Lifetime TV biopic “Whitney”, directed by Angela Bassett and set to release in 2015.

The new single is available for free download/streaming on Soundcloud in both a Radio Edit () and Extended Club Remix.

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Music: Matt Zarley sings Whitney Houston tribute – “All At Once I Have Nothing (But I Will Always Love You)”

Randy Report favorite (and 2-time Out Music Award winner) Matt Zarley shares this Whitney Houston tribute medley in his ongoing “Covered” series of music videos.

From Matt:

After several Whitney requests, I thought I’d start off with a tribute medley that my music director and I put together for my live shows, shortly after Whitney’s sudden death.

She was undoubtedly the biggest influence on me as a singer. She was the platinum standard… there will likely never be anyone better than she was in her prime.

See more from Matt’s “Covered” series here and here.

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Listen: Deborah Cox’ cover vocals of Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You”

There’s much brouhaha being made about Deborah Cox recording vocals for the upcoming Whitney Houston biopic on Lifetime.

TMZ has managed to get their hands on the Canadian singer-songwriter’s version of Houston’s Grammy Award-winning hit, “I Will Always Love You.”

I think she sounds fantastic. Thoughts?

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Legendary music man Clive Davis reveals bisexuality in new memoir

Clive Davis — the man credited with discovering Whitney Houston and working with everyone from Aretha Franklin to Bruce Springsteen and Kelly Clarkson — reveals for the first time his bisexuality in his new memoir, The Soundtrack of My Life.

According to Rolling Stone :

Davis, who has been married and divorced twice, has never before publically addressed his sexuality. In a candid five-page section toward the end of the book, due in stores today, he writes that he first had a sexual encounter with a man during “the era of Studio 54.” “On this night, after imbibing enough alcohol, I was open to responding to his sexual overtures,” writes Davis, who says he had only been with women before. Being with a man, he writes, provided “welcome relief.”

After a period of “soul searching and self-analysis,” Davis separated from his second wife in 1985, and says that he went on to have simultaneous relationships with two women and a man. In 1990, he entered into a “monogamous relationship” with a male doctor, who is not named in the book. Although that relationship ended in 2004, Davis says he has been in a subsequent relationship with another man ever since. Davis writes that his coming out deeply affected his ties with one of his sons, Mitchell: After what Davis calls “one very trying year,” father and son worked out their differences, Davis says.

Read more at Queerty

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Whitney Houston passes away at 48 – one year later

One year ago today: Whitney Houston drowned in a hotel bathtub on Feb. 11, 2012, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Authorities said her death was complicated by cocaine use and heart disease.

One of the greatest voices of our time silenced.

I watched Whitney perform the above clip live on TV at the American Music Awards in 1994 with my best friend Matt Zarley. We had watched her great performances, and her sometimes not so great performances. But this is probably one of her best televised moments ever (she won 8 American Music Awards this night). To this day Matt and I know every riff, breath and key change of this performance.

I can’t imagine the day this video clip won’t leave me in awe.

This is how I will always remember Whitney Houston.

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Whitney Houston’s mother would not have accepted Whitney as lesbian

Oprah Winfrey interviews singer Cissy Houston, Whitney’s mom, in the latest episode of Oprah’s Next Chapter.

Cissy discussed the longstanding rumor that Whitney was involved in a romantic relationship with her best friend and one-time executive assistant Robyn Crawford.

In the book, Cissy alludes to Whitney “experiment[ing]” with this friendship. Cissy tells a clearly surprised Oprah that had Whitney come out to her as a lesbian she would not have liked it, or condoned it.

(via Towleroad)