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    Remembering Whitney: My Story of Love, Loss, and the Night the Music Stopped
    Remembering Whitney: My Story of Love, Loss, and the Night the Music Stopped
    Remembering Whitney: My Story of Love, Loss, and the Night the Music Stopped
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    Remembering Whitney: My Story of Love, Loss, and the Night the Music Stopped

    Written by Cissy Houston

    Narrated by Robin Miles

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    The definitive account of Whitney Houston’s astonishing life, ground-breaking career, and tragic death — complete with never-before-seen photographs — from the only one who truly knows the story behind the headlines: her mother, Cissy Houston.

    Cissy has said little publicly about Whitney’s heart-breaking death. Now, for the first time, she opens up and shares the unbelievable story of her daughter’s life, as well as her own, and addresses Whitney’s brightest and darkest moments.

    A legendary Grammy Award–winning gospel singer in her own right, Cissy Houston shows how the lessons from her own musical journey helped to shape Whitney’s career — from teaching Whitney to use her voice, to keeping her level-headed throughout her meteoric rise to fame.

    With candor and respect, she sets the record straight about Whitney, exploring both her turbulent marriage and her misunderstood struggles with drug abuse. Cissy goes behind the tabloid headlines to show fans around the world the true, human side of a strong, successful — yet flawed — musical icon who died much too young.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateJan 29, 2013
    ISBN9780062264374
    Author

    Cissy Houston

    Cissy Houston is a Grammy Award-winning soul and gospel singer and the mother of the late superstar Whitney Houston. Lisa Dickey has been a freelance ghostwriter and book doctor since 1997. She has helped write and edit fourteen nonfiction books, including seven New York Times bestsellers.

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    • 5/5
      Reading this made me miss Whitney Houston more. Before, I just know and loved her because of her music and talent but with this book and by knowing what she went through, the level of respect that I have for her is now on a whole new level. She is truly an icon and her music immortalized her precious gift that will be enjoyed by the future generations.
    • 5/5
      This book makes me feel really close to cissy and her relationship with Whitney. Great book. Feel really touched. Understood that gods will takes Whitney away from us.
    • 5/5
      I loved this book it is a beautiful tribute to Whitney. She was my favorite female singer for decades. She’s missed by all of her fans especially me.
    • 5/5
      This book was touching and very insightful and yes nippy is with you I'm one of the people gifted enough to see and hear them they come in our dreams and sometimes we forget them upon waking of we don't write it down immediately we also have signs i believe you also butterflies a lot and feel like your being embraced which that is Whitney saying hey im here even though the thought is that in death people sleep when its not true they have slept already its a new life and a new mission they're never far but i do feel nippy is at peace and healed from it. In life she already did what she was sent to do so Yess the ancestors called her back so she won't have to suffer anymore blessings and healing to you miss cissy
    • 3/5
      It is hard to rate a book like this- a grieving mom retelling her memories of her now deceased child. First let me say that I was annoyed by the grammatical errors in the book.... I hate that writing and editing isn't taken more seriously nowadays.

      There were so many things that I did not know about Whitney Houston, but this book did not give a lot of insight into her per se. It was a book about Cissy Houston- about her willful ignorance about her daughter's drug use, about her choice to miss out on some of her daughter's most important performances, and about her lack of knowledge about how to deal with difficult situations. While I totally respect that Ms. Houston is a mom struggling to come to terms with her daughter's passing (I have seen my own mother do the same after my sister's death), I found myself shaking my head in disbelief that a mom would not intervene before it became so bad. Her excuses for not acknowledging the issues ("she told me not worry") are shameful, at best.

      I am glad that she did not blab too much about what Bobbi Kristina experienced, but am shocked that nowhere in this book does she mention actively trying to protect Bobbi Kristina from any of them. And she says that she is angry with her brothers because they were not protecting their sister, but she doesn't protect her daughter. Cissy admits to her own "partying" habits (which I can only believe means substance abuse because she calls her kids' abuse "partying" as well), but she doesn't seem to make any effort to educate her children on the pitfalls of fame....

      I know I should be reviewing the book and not her parenting style, but the book reads like a mission to convince the world that she was a good mother who just didn't know any better. The only problem is that she admits to be told numerous times about her daughter's walk on the dark side, and she chose to do nothing until she was in too deeply.