A Song for You: My Life with Whitney Houston

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A Song for You: My Life with Whitney Houston Details

The New York Times best seller!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 new 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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is the relationship between Robyn Crawford and Whitney Houston. “A Song For You” begins with Robyn at 18 and Whitney at 15, their first meeting in E. Orange, New Jersey and continues thru every event of their turbulent life together and concludes with Whitney’s funeral. Nothing is held back.Crawford discusses her personal experiences loving Whitney, working for her and worrying about her. It was an all consuming job and life. This is highly evidenced with the sacrifices she made in her own family and with her own career in basketball. She shares her view and perspective on Whitney’s family, employee’s and famous friends. Much of this book is dark but the over riding feeling is one of love and care and perhaps, co-dependency.The writing style is familiar and comfortable and it’s professionally published and edited. A few pictures of Robyn, Whitney and their family and friends are included at the end. There are no warnings for language or sexual content but as you might surmise, there are many incidents of physical abuse and drug use.Robyn’s sole purpose in writing was to dispel the inaccuracies about herself and Whitney and to honor her friend. I think she was successful📚

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