A Song for You: My Life with Whitney Houston

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After decades of silence, Robyn Crawford, close friend, collaborator, and confidante of Whitney Houston, shares her story.

The focus of Houston's life always centered around music, and Crawford wrote extensively the first time she heard Houston sing in her church choir. If "they" had let Whitney be open about her relationship with Robyn, then maybe a huge message would have got through and gone some way to stamping out homophobia. I have always been a huge whitney houston fan I connected to her voice many years ago and followed her career to the very end.However, the portrayal of Whitney Houston was not negative as in the most recent documentaries and biographies. For years, Houston and Crawford effectively functioned as a couple, living together, occasionally (and chastely) sharing a bed, and remaining emotionally close. The houstons were beyond toxic even pre fame and they trivialised the drug problems in their family.

Had this been today, Whitney would be alive and no doubt living her life with Robyn as there are a lot of entertainers today who are openly gay/bisexual and no-one bats an eyelid. They are simply living their authentic lives as people today are far more tolerant and empathetic, which is so refreshing and shows as a society how far we have come and how archaic this world once was. This is not a tell all, as other reviewers have said, and it still feels like Robyn is holding back due to how private of a person Whitney was. stated that Houston was funding large sums for the living expenses of others: senior employees, Brown's mother was using Nippy Inc.It is a distorting effect of fame that minor episodes can assume a much larger prominence than they deserve. Bobby knew that Whitney loved him, but he also knew she wasn't in love with him and only married him to shrug off the gay rumours.

In 1980, when they met, it was already clear Houston was heading for stardom: her cousin, Dionne Warwick, was a veteran star; her mother, Cissy, a successful backing singer; and Whitney had caught the eye of record executives in New York.

Robyn and Whitney were initially lovers but could not maintain that relationship due to how it would appear to Whitney’s fans as well as Whitney’s strict, conservative, religious family. The story told by Robyn Crawford in the pages of A Song For You, an account of her decades-long relationship with Whitney Houston is tender, moving and painful to read, the history of a friendship that is also a love story.

There are a handful of singers who, when you hear their voice for the first time give you a "wow" moment and a tingle that touches you deep. A generous, loving book that has more insight on Houston's career--the ride, the fall--than any other single source that I've encountered. People would try to talk to her about Houston, or she would read something in a magazine and suddenly, “I would be in that zone of looking out for her and trying to figure it all out. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. I'm a Whitney Houston fan and it pained me to see her in the state she was in during her final years, particularly in the early 00's.Strangely enough, Crawford’s loving yet honest portrayal of her friend cured me of feeling sorry for Houston, which I’ve done for years. That was someone who was suffering from a broken heart and was trying to ask for help and even Robyn herself said Whitney had too much pride. I feel oddly protective of it, like if you didn't love her, then you don't deserve to read Robyn's re-telling of their lives together. Their romance took off just as Crawford was exiting Houston’s orbit, and Lisa told her she needed to get help. Whitney’s world”, as she puts it, couldn’t have been further away, and even after the singer’s death, Crawford felt the best approach was to lie low.