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[Tiger]

Lisa, on 27 February 2012 - 03:52 PM, said:

Interview: Gerry Griffith Speaks On Signing Whitney Houston And Why He Quit Working With Clive Davis http://www.complex.c...ith-clive-davis

Thanks for this, great read!

[WlQhnT20]

LuVaBoY, on 27 February 2012 - 05:56 PM, said:

WlQhnT20, on 27 February 2012 - 05:46 PM, said:

LuVaBoY, on 27 February 2012 - 11:45 AM, said:

Youtube won't upload this interview flashback a dutch TV programme did last week. It is a rare interview from 1991 with host Ivo Niehe for a TV programme called the TROS TV show. I think the interviewer asked Whitney some very good questions, instead of all the same routine questions Whitney was often asked. Lisa and me agreed to share a download link for you all, because I think we all should see this one:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/mnt53h

Let me know what you guys think, enjoy!

Thank you, but I'm having issues downloading this on both a pc and a mac

Oh maybe I should mention: to download you should click on the blue bar which says "CLICK HERE TO START DOWNLOAD FROM SENDSPACE"
The other links on the page are not the right ones.

I meant to say that it will download up until the last second and it won't complete the download.

[Every1lovesNippy]

LuVaBoY, on 27 February 2012 - 11:45 AM, said:

Youtube won't upload this interview flashback a dutch TV programme did last week. It is a rare interview from 1991 with host Ivo Niehe for a TV programme called the TROS TV show. I think the interviewer asked Whitney some very good questions, instead of all the same routine questions Whitney was often asked. Lisa and me agreed to share a download link for you all, because I think we all should see this one:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/mnt53h

Let me know what you guys think, enjoy!

Interesting, indeed. Thank you for sharing this.

[WlQhnT20]

I figured out that the download would stall and I had to manually stop it and change the file extension, but it plays now. Thank you for posting it.

[juzly]

Tiger, on 27 February 2012 - 06:21 PM, said:

Lisa, on 27 February 2012 - 03:52 PM, said:

Interview: Gerry Griffith Speaks On Signing Whitney Houston And Why He Quit Working With Clive Davis http://www.complex.c...ith-clive-davis

Thanks for this, great read!

Yeah lots of respect for the guy, Griffith has been telling the truth for years. There's a great article even back in 86, billboard's inside tracks magazine, amongst many. I love you Whitney.

[remamamama]

Great words from Nicki Minaj.

Nicki Minaj - sings a bit of Hold Me, "She is The Voice, she is THE Voice"


Starts at 4:55

[richardlondon]

Dionne Warwick just posted this letter on her website:

[left]
my dear friends,
i thank you all for the heartfelt messages of condolence sent to console my family and me in our hour of grief
all that sent or thought to send words of inspiration to us we truly appreciate this and they will hold a very special place in our minds and hearts.........thinking back it is still very surreal and will not lessen immediately for any of us but we are all comforted in knowing the breadth and width that our special one WHITNEY spanned across this vast world of ours having the ability to fill with the love of beauty, spirit, and music for all to get joy from.............so many have expressed feeling the sincere presence of GOD through their television sets, as was felt at the NEW HOPE BAPTIST CHURCH...........WHITNEY was and is a child of GOD and she had great pleasure in sharing her belief with so many...........there have also been many comments on the poem that i read and i have been asked if i could share it.........it is my pleasure to do so and in so doing i hope it will serve as a comfort in the many trials we all can, have, or will face.
my family and i all thank you for caring and showing your support for us
"I'M FREE"[indent]
Don't grieve for me, for now I'm free, I'm following the path GOD laid for me
I took his hand when i heard him call, I turned my back and left it all
I could not stay another day to laugh, to love, to work or play
Tasks undone must stay that way, I found that peace at close of day
If my parting has left a void, then fill it with remembered joy
A friendship shared, a laugh, a kiss, oh yes, these things I too will miss
Be not burdened with times of sorrow, I wish you the sunshine of tomorrow
My life has been full, I've savored much, Good friends, good times, and a loved ones touch
Perhaps my time seemed all too brief, don't lengthen it now with undue grief
Lift up your hearts and share with me
GOD wanted ME now.........HE SET ME FREE[/indent]
my love to you all..........until next time
dionne

[truthspeaker06]

richardlondon, on 28 February 2012 - 11:50 AM, said:

Dionne Warwick just posted this letter on her website:

[left]
my dear friends,
i thank you all for the heartfelt messages of condolence sent to console my family and me in our hour of grief
all that sent or thought to send words of inspiration to us we truly appreciate this and they will hold a very special place in our minds and hearts.........thinking back it is still very surreal and will not lessen immediately for any of us but we are all comforted in knowing the breadth and width that our special one WHITNEY spanned across this vast world of ours having the ability to fill with the love of beauty, spirit, and music for all to get joy from.............so many have expressed feeling the sincere presence of GOD through their television sets, as was felt at the NEW HOPE BAPTIST CHURCH...........WHITNEY was and is a child of GOD and she had great pleasure in sharing her belief with so many...........there have also been many comments on the poem that i read and i have been asked if i could share it.........it is my pleasure to do so and in so doing i hope it will serve as a comfort in the many trials we all can, have, or will face.
my family and i all thank you for caring and showing your support for us
"I'M FREE"[indent]
Don't grieve for me, for now I'm free, I'm following the path GOD laid for me
I took his hand when i heard him call, I turned my back and left it all
I could not stay another day to laugh, to love, to work or play
Tasks undone must stay that way, I found that peace at close of day
If my parting has left a void, then fill it with remembered joy
A friendship shared, a laugh, a kiss, oh yes, these things I too will miss
Be not burdened with times of sorrow, I wish you the sunshine of tomorrow
My life has been full, I've savored much, Good friends, good times, and a loved ones touch
Perhaps my time seemed all too brief, don't lengthen it now with undue grief
Lift up your hearts and share with me
GOD wanted ME now.........HE SET ME FREE[/indent]
my love to you all..........until next time
dionne

Sending some love & prayers to Lady Dionne. Cissy, Krissi & the whole Houston/Drinkard family. How kind of Dionne to even continue with her letters. That letter definitely comforted me a bit. To know that their faith is still strong warms my heart.

[PontusFromSweden]

Margaret Cho blog

http://www.margaretc...hitney-houston/


Whitney

Sunday, February 12th, 2012
I am broken up by Whitney Houston’s death. I just watched her sing the star spangled banner, the video passed around in the last few weeks, mostly as a reaction to Steven Tyler’s recent rendition, which I didn’t think was so bad. It’s a hard song to sing. Why don’t you try it? I can’t even get to any of the high parts, no matter what key it’s in, no matter how much I warm up beforehand, and I am a better singer than most.


I am glad that lots of people watched that video, as YouTube and links and the idea of viral wasn’t around in 1991. Either you saw it on TV or you didn’t. You should watch it now. It’s easily the very best time anyone’s sung the national anthem, it being one of the most arduous songs ever written, an egregiously undemocratic collection of notes, available only to the exceptional. Whitney Houston was exceptional.


She emerged, fresh faced and innocent, her chaste being one of her leading virtues. There was a purity to Whitney Houston, proper and forthright, talented and honest. Her sensibility was sensibility. There was an earthly majesty every time she opened her mouth to sing. The simplicity of her was the magic of her. She didn’t show off so much, there were none of the vocal gymnastics that are popular nowadays to advertise the worth and measure of a singer. We didn’t need that from her. She was undisputedly the queen, and yet also, every woman.


“anything, you want done baby, I’ll do it naturally……..”


I don’t want to hear that no one is surprised that she is dead. I, for one, am actually surprised. She seemed as if she could have come back. She seemed already on her way back. It was like she had called and said she was on her way and we were just waiting for her to pull up. I felt like she was close, and I don’t want to let go of that feeling.


I am sick of the superiority people have about drug addiction and problems and how it’s funny and like a ‘trainwreck’ when someone is caught on camera stumbling and mumbling outside of a club and then they die and no one is surprised. I want to be shocked by death when it arrives to collect us. I want it to come out of the blue always. I never want to expect it for someone. We should never expect it, or we should always expect it, because in truth, it will come for all of us in time. It’s just a matter of time.


Drugs take a toll too great to calculate. We have no way of knowing what the cost is. Today, I don’t want to think about lessons I need to learn or cautionary tales or fame as it comes and goes. No rants for now. Let it be quiet and let it be bleak. Let what has been lost be mourned in earnest.


I want to think about the gentle genius of Whitney Houston’s voice.


I remember a cute guy we all knew named Tops – who we all agreed was too adorable to be one – who would introduce himself like “Hi. I’m Tops…..don’t let the name fool you!” Tops would stand in the kitchen, his head visible above the swinging doors, and sing at the tops of his lungs “I wanna dance with somebody! I wanna feel the heat – with somebody!”


The affinity and reach of Whitney Houston was felt most intimately within the gay community. Many men I am close with won’t even answer my texts or calls today. Her death is hurting them more than they imagined, the silencing of her a terrifying reminder of mortality itself and rendering them silent. Iphones are off to cry and watch youtube videos in peace.


I don’t know what else to do but this. I feel like I can’t say anything to make it better. I am going to shut everything off and cry for a time.

[remamamama]

Whitney's Goddaughter (Brandi Burnside) talks about Whitney in depth

http://www.theinside..._Her/index.html

Wow.

[truthspeaker06]

remamamama, on 29 February 2012 - 05:12 AM, said:

Whitney's Goddaughter (Brandi Burnside) talks about Whitney in depth

http://www.theinside..._Her/index.html

Wow.

yeeeaaaaahhhhh I saw that lastnight in the gym as well as Bobby's dumb ugly BLEEP sister Leloah on ET...just a mess

[Every1lovesNippy]

truthspeaker06, on 29 February 2012 - 09:17 AM, said:

remamamama, on 29 February 2012 - 05:12 AM, said:

Whitney's Goddaughter (Brandi Burnside) talks about Whitney in depth

http://www.theinside..._Her/index.html

Wow.

yeeeaaaaahhhhh I saw that lastnight in the gym as well as Bobby's dumb ugly BLEEP sister Leloah on ET...just a mess

Yea, but is anyone buying that Ray J deeply in love thing? Didn't Krissy say there was nothing romantic with Ray J? Or am I confusing that. From seeing them together, I just did not get the romantic attraction thing between Whitney and Ray J (you did see that when when she was with Bobby (to each his own). I am wondering how close Whiteny really was to this goddaughter in the last few years. I don't know, I am 100% with what she said about the press, it's what any real fan of Whitney's would unload on the press if given a chance, but this Ray J love talk does not feel right to me. I mean I just can't see Whitney, at 48 and where she seemed to be at peace and in a good place, sleeping with the same man who's sole claim to fame is a sex-tape with, shallow, trashya$$ Kim Kardashian. Call me naieve, but I'm not buying the whole of the goddaughter's story just yet.

[WlQhnT20]

Every1lovesNippy, on 29 February 2012 - 03:33 PM, said:

truthspeaker06, on 29 February 2012 - 09:17 AM, said:

remamamama, on 29 February 2012 - 05:12 AM, said:

Whitney's Goddaughter (Brandi Burnside) talks about Whitney in depth

http://www.theinside..._Her/index.html

Wow.

yeeeaaaaahhhhh I saw that lastnight in the gym as well as Bobby's dumb ugly BLEEP sister Leloah on ET...just a mess

Yea, but is anyone buying that Ray J deeply in love thing? Didn't Krissy say there was nothing romantic with Ray J? Or am I confusing that. From seeing them together, I just did not get the romantic attraction thing between Whitney and Ray J (you did see that when when she was with Bobby (to each his own). I am wondering how close Whiteny really was to this goddaughter in the last few years. I don't know, I am 100% with what she said about the press, it's what any real fan of Whitney's would unload on the press if given a chance, but this Ray J love talk does not feel right to me. I mean I just can't see Whitney, at 48 and where she seemed to be at peace and in a good place, sleeping with the same man who's sole claim to fame is a sex-tape with, shallow, trashya$$ Kim Kardashian. Call me naieve, but I'm not buying the whole of the goddaughter's story just yet.

I'm not buying it and will never buy it.

[Every1lovesNippy]

WlQhnT20, on 29 February 2012 - 03:41 PM, said:

Every1lovesNippy, on 29 February 2012 - 03:33 PM, said:

truthspeaker06, on 29 February 2012 - 09:17 AM, said:

remamamama, on 29 February 2012 - 05:12 AM, said:

Whitney's Goddaughter (Brandi Burnside) talks about Whitney in depth

http://www.theinside..._Her/index.html

Wow.

yeeeaaaaahhhhh I saw that lastnight in the gym as well as Bobby's dumb ugly BLEEP sister Leloah on ET...just a mess

Yea, but is anyone buying that Ray J deeply in love thing? Didn't Krissy say there was nothing romantic with Ray J? Or am I confusing that. From seeing them together, I just did not get the romantic attraction thing between Whitney and Ray J (you did see that when when she was with Bobby (to each his own). I am wondering how close Whiteny really was to this goddaughter in the last few years. I don't know, I am 100% with what she said about the press, it's what any real fan of Whitney's would unload on the press if given a chance, but this Ray J love talk does not feel right to me. I mean I just can't see Whitney, at 48 and where she seemed to be at peace and in a good place, sleeping with the same man who's sole claim to fame is a sex-tape with, shallow, trashya$$ Kim Kardashian. Call me naieve, but I'm not buying the whole of the goddaughter's story just yet.

I'm not buying it and will never buy it.

That's two of us.

[NippyFanNy779]

Every1lovesNippy, on 29 February 2012 - 03:33 PM, said:

truthspeaker06, on 29 February 2012 - 09:17 AM, said:

remamamama, on 29 February 2012 - 05:12 AM, said:

Whitney's Goddaughter (Brandi Burnside) talks about Whitney in depth

http://www.theinside..._Her/index.html

Wow.

yeeeaaaaahhhhh I saw that lastnight in the gym as well as Bobby's dumb ugly BLEEP sister Leloah on ET...just a mess

Yea, but is anyone buying that Ray J deeply in love thing? Didn't Krissy say there was nothing romantic with Ray J? Or am I confusing that. From seeing them together, I just did not get the romantic attraction thing between Whitney and Ray J (you did see that when when she was with Bobby (to each his own). I am wondering how close Whiteny really was to this goddaughter in the last few years. I don't know, I am 100% with what she said about the press, it's what any real fan of Whitney's would unload on the press if given a chance, but this Ray J love talk does not feel right to me. I mean I just can't see Whitney, at 48 and where she seemed to be at peace and in a good place, sleeping with the same man who's sole claim to fame is a sex-tape with, shallow, trashya$$ Kim Kardashian. Call me naieve, but I'm not buying the whole of the goddaughter's story just yet.

Every1lovesNippy, on 29 February 2012 - 03:33 PM, said:

truthspeaker06, on 29 February 2012 - 09:17 AM, said:

remamamama, on 29 February 2012 - 05:12 AM, said:

Whitney's Goddaughter (Brandi Burnside) talks about Whitney in depth

http://www.theinside..._Her/index.html

Wow.

yeeeaaaaahhhhh I saw that lastnight in the gym as well as Bobby's dumb ugly BLEEP sister Leloah on ET...just a mess

Yea, but is anyone buying that Ray J deeply in love thing? Didn't Krissy say there was nothing romantic with Ray J? Or am I confusing that. From seeing them together, I just did not get the romantic attraction thing between Whitney and Ray J (you did see that when when she was with Bobby (to each his own). I am wondering how close Whiteny really was to this goddaughter in the last few years. I don't know, I am 100% with what she said about the press, it's what any real fan of Whitney's would unload on the press if given a chance, but this Ray J love talk does not feel right to me. I mean I just can't see Whitney, at 48 and where she seemed to be at peace and in a good place, sleeping with the same man who's sole claim to fame is a sex-tape with, shallow, trashya$$ Kim Kardashian. Call me naieve, but I'm not buying the whole of the goddaughter's story just yet.

Why does anyone get to judge?? Did you meet them, did you hang out with them, spend time with them individually or together NO! You are judging Whitney on who you believe she was and judging Ray based on one tape and who the media tells you he is.

This is the very thing Brandi was talking about stop judging! Once and for all

And to be honest Other than being with Krissy of course, Whitney always, always looked beyond happy when she was with Ray J. And I have always said this....If he brought her any amount of happiness and pure Joy then THANK GOD FOR HIM!

Their age has nothing to do with it, who his sister is has nothing to do with it. Who his prior girlfriend was has nothing to do with it. If those to people found a common bound and were happy then why can't it just be that. It doesn't/ didn't need anyone's approval... not then and surely not now!