Is Bobbi Kristina Brown music’s next big thing? Industry hot shots like Clive Davis — who discovered Bobbi Kris’ powerhouse mother — are convinced Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston’s 16-year-old daughter has the vocal chops to join her parents as a pop icons, informants for The Chicago Sun-Times claim.
Bobbi Kristina’s duet with mom on Good Morning America this week could be the first in series designed to help the teen launch a solo career, snitches say.
Whitney Houston celebrated Monday’s debut of her eagerly-awaited comeback album, I Look To You, with a action-packed performance for ABC’s Good Morning America in New York City’s Central Park Tuesday afternoon.
GMA co-hosts Robin Roberts and Diane Sawyer joined the R&B diva on stage for a rendition of “I’m Every Woman” during today’s taping. Bobbi Kristina, Whitney’s 16-year-old daughter with ex-husband Bobby Brown, was also on-hand for the performance.
Whitney’s interview and live set will air on Good Morning America Wednesday, Sept. 2.
Whitney Houston returns to the music scene after a six-year hiatus with the release of her comeback album I Look to You, her sixth full-length studio LP. So far, the album is getting mostly strong reviews from critics, and now the legendary singer is opening about teaming up with her Arista Records mentor Clive Davis once again on the pages of the October issue of Ebony Magazine.
“I shed a lot of stuff, a lot of unnecessary weight in the last three or four years. I left a lot of old luggage behind, and when I did, the blessings just started pouring on me, and the light in my spirit started to lift again,” Whitney tells the magazine. “I’m really humbled, and I thank God that people love me, but I [really] thank God that God loves me. I thank Him for chastening my heart, for never letting go. What I did sometimes … I went off and did my thing, but He never let me go.”
Whitney On Her Retreat From The Public Eye: “I was just ready to lay back and raise my daughter and just watch her grow and nurture her. And my mother’s getting older. I wanted to spend more time with my mom [because during] most of my 20s and 30s, [I] was dealing with making records and traveling the world and being this thing — icon, you know — whatever this has turned into.”
Whitney On Her Relationship With Daughter Bobbi Kristina, 16: “She and I are not only mother and daughter, but we’re good friends. I want her to trust me, to be able to trust in me, to know that I’m not going nowhere. If she knows that I’m there for her, she can depend on me. I’m the dependable one; she can depend on her mommy.”
Whitney Houston covers the October issue of Ebony, on newsstands September 8.
Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, Hip-Hop’s newest Power Couple, lent their respective producing and writing talents to Whitney Houston’s new uptembo single “Million Dollar Bil.”
The track will be featured on the R&B diva’s long-awaited comeback album, I Look To You, available next month.
Fans will be able to get their hands on Whitney Houston’s comeback LP sooner than they thought.
I Look To You, which wasn’t expected to hit store shelves until September 1, will now be made available on August 31. The album is Whitney’s first in seven years.
Whitney Houston hosted a listening party for her highly anticipated new album, I Look To You, in New York City on Tuesday night. I Look To You — Whitney’s first album of original material since 2002 — drops in stores September 1, and mogul Clive Davis is oiling up the old publicity machine to ensure the effort hits Billboard in a major way.
The Hollywood Reporter’sShowbiz 411 reports that Whitney has signed a deal to appear in an ABC special that will air the last week of August, just days ahead of the album’s scheduled release.
Wendy Williams is over her feud with R&B diva Whitney Houston.
The entertainment titans got into a massive spat in 2003, when the radio host questioned the “I Will Always Love You” about her alleged drug problems. All Hell broke loose and a ranting Whitney cursedat Williams on-air.
“Whitney and I have history, but we’re also Jersey girls and women of a certain age, and I think we’re both in a really good place,” she said at the launch of her new TV talk show, The Wendy Williams Show, at the Gates on Monday night. “We have a new life to celebrate. I’d love to have Whitney on the show.”
