Album Reviews: The Preacher's Wife

Date: November 30, 1996

From Billboard
Submitted by: Larry A.


WHITNEY HOUSTON
The Preacher's Wife--Original Soundtrack Album
PRODUCERS: various
Arista 18951

Pop diva Whitney Houston's latest soundtrack project--her third this decade--delivers on fans' expectations of R&B-flavored pop perfection while venturing headlong into the world of gospel. In the pop/AC/R&B realm, highlights include peppy Annie Lennox cut "Step By Step" (in the original version and Teddy Riley remix); leadoff ballad "I Believe In You"; and "Somebody Bigger Than You And I," featuring Bobby Brown, Faith Evans, Johnny Gill, Monica, and Ralph Tresvant. Among the album's most uplifting gospel tunes are "Joy," "I Go To The Rock," and "I Love The Lord," all with the Georgia Mass Choir. An album that cements Houston's standing as a pop superstar and establishes a base in gospel, her birthright musical genre.