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After decades of silence, Robyn Crawford, close friend, collaborator, and confidante of Whitney Houston, shares her story.
Whitney Houston is as big a superstar as the music business has ever known. She exploded on the scene in 1985 with her debut album and spent the next two decades dominating the charts and capturing the hearts of fans around the world. One person was there by her side through it all—her best friend, Robyn Crawford.
Since Whitney’s death in 2012, Robyn has stayed out of the limelight and held the great joys, wild adventures, and hard truths of her life with Whitney close to her heart. Now, for the first time ever, Crawford opens up in her memoir, A Song for You.
With warmth, candor, and an impressive recall of detail, Robyn describes the two meeting as teenagers in the 1980s, and how their lives and friendship evolved as Whitney recorded her first album and Robyn pursued her promising Division I basketball career. Together during countless sold-out world tours, behind the scenes as hit after hit was recorded, through Whitney’s marriage and the birth of her daughter, the two navigated often challenging families, great loves, and painful losses, always supporting each other with laughter and friendship.
Deeply personal and heartfelt, A Song for You is the vital, honest, and previously untold story that provides an understanding of the complex life of Whitney Houston. Finally, the person who knew her best sets the record straight.
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November 12, 2019 -
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- ISBN: 9781524742867
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- ISBN: 9781524742867
- File size: 21204 KB
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- English
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November 22, 2019
With its title taken from Leon Russell's classic song, which Whitney Houston performed live in 1991, this memoir recalls author Crawford's multifaceted relationship with the late singer. After meeting as camp counselors in the early 1980s, the women became inseparable, with Crawford taking Houston to modeling appointments and singing gigs and, ultimately, leaving college to work as her assistant. As Houston's career took off and rumors about her and Crawford's sexuality spread, the two moved from lovers to friends. Quietly pushed aside after Houston's volatile marriage to Bobby Brown, Crawford watched as the singer's family and record label Arista ignored her escalating substance abuse. This is a story of manipulation and control--of a demanding music industry, a neglectful family, and an artist who had few people with her best interests at heart. In between, Crawford shares her own story, including emotional memories of family living with chronic illness. VERDICT Despite poor editing at times, this candid memoir will resonate with fans. This isn't a tell-all, but a tender remembrance. Readers will see Houston in a new light--as an exceptional artist who had few people in her life she could genuinely trust.--Stephanie Sendaula, Library Journal
Copyright 2019 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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