{"id":154649,"date":"2023-03-25T22:29:28","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T22:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culture.org\/?p=154649"},"modified":"2023-06-12T13:52:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T13:52:39","slug":"whitney-houstons-unreleased-gospel-songs-resurface-in-new-album-and-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culture.org\/art-and-culture\/music\/whitney-houstons-unreleased-gospel-songs-resurface-in-new-album-and-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitney Houston&#8217;s Unreleased Gospel Songs Resurface in New Album and Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"           <!--  <script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n                jQuery(document).ready(function() {\r\n                    jQuery(\".key-accordion-item .key-menu\").on(\"click\", function() {\r\n                        if (jQuery(this).parent().hasClass(\"active\")) {\r\n                            jQuery(this).next().slideUp();\r\n                            jQuery(this).parent().removeClass(\"active\");\r\n                        } else {\r\n                            jQuery(\".key-content\").slideUp();\r\n                            jQuery(\".key-accordion-item\").removeClass(\"active\");\r\n                            jQuery(this).parent().addClass(\"active\");\r\n                            jQuery(this).next().slideDown();\r\n                        }\r\n                    });\r\n                })\r\n            <\/script> -->\r\n\r\n\r\n            <!-- start html -->\r\n\r\n            <div class=\"news-key-takeaway-wapper\">\r\n                                <span style=\"background-color:#4db2ee;\">Key Takeaways<\/span>\r\n                <ul class=\"news-key-nbox\" style=\"border-color:#4db2ee;background-color:rgba(77, 178, 238, 0.1);\">\r\n                                                        <li>A new Whitney Houston album, featuring six previously unreleased songs, will be released alongside a documentary TV special titled I Go to the Rock: The Gospel Music of Whitney Houston.<\/li>\r\n                                                                    <li>The documentary, airing on March 24 on UPtv and Aspire TV, will explore Whitney Houston's history with gospel music.<\/li>\r\n                                                                    <li>The album's first single, \"Testimony,\" was released on Friday, and the project includes songs from soundtracks for The Preacher's Wife, Sparkle, and The Bodyguard.<\/li>\r\n                                                                    <li>Pat Houston, executor of the singer's estate, has called the new project \"a testament of Whitney's heart.\"<\/li>\r\n                                                                    <li>The release of the new project follows the biopic Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody, starring Naomi Ackie, who spent six months preparing for the role.C<\/li>\r\n                                                <\/ul>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n            \n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A new Whitney Houston album is set to be released, featuring six previously unreleased songs, alongside a documentary TV special titled I Go to the Rock: The Gospel Music of Whitney Houston.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The documentary will explore the late singer&#8217;s history with gospel music and will air on March 24 on UPtv and Aspire TV.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The album&#8217;s first single, &#8220;Testimony,&#8221; was released on Friday, with the project also featuring songs from previously released soundtracks for The Preacher&#8217;s Wife, Sparkle, and The Bodyguard.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Whitney Houston&#8217;s Gospel Roots<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Four decades ago, music executive Steven Abdul Khan Brown encountered a teenage Whitney Houston singing at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the blessing of Whitney&#8217;s mother, Cissy Houston, Khan Brown booked studio time to record with the promising star.<\/span><\/p>\n                        <!-- <div class=\"container-c\"> -->\r\n                        <!-- <div class=\"row justify-content-between\"> -->\r\n                        <!-- <div class=\"col-post-800\"> -->\r\n                        <!-- start html -->\r\n                        <div class=\"blockquote-wapper\">\r\n                            <div>\r\n                                <span class=\"text_quot\">\r\n                                    <p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whitney&#8217;s self-titled debut was released in 1985, featuring hits such as &#8220;Saving All My Love for You,&#8221; &#8220;Greatest Love of All,&#8221; &#8220;How Will I Know,&#8221; and &#8220;You Give Good Love.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n                                <\/span>\r\n\r\n                                <div class=\"quot_icon\">\r\n                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-content\/themes\/culture\/icons\/i_quot.svg\" type=\"image\/svg+xml\">\r\n                                <\/div>\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"quot_tick\" src=\"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-content\/themes\/culture\/icons\/i_quot_tri.svg\" type=\"image\/svg+xml\">\r\n                        <\/div>\r\n                        <!-- end html -->\r\n                        <!-- <\/div> -->\r\n                        <!-- <\/div> -->\r\n                        <!-- <\/div> -->\r\n                                    \n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In February 1981, 17-year-old Whitney recorded three songs that Khan Brown believes helped her land her first record deal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whitney&#8217;s self-titled debut was released in 1985, featuring hits such as &#8220;Saving All My Love for You,&#8221; &#8220;Greatest Love of All,&#8221; &#8220;How Will I Know,&#8221; and &#8220;You Give Good Love.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Documentary and Album Details<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The documentary will feature highlights of Houston&#8217;s gospel background, including her first show in front of a live audience, performances at the American Music Awards, and additional moments from the NAACP Image Awards and Ebony&#8217;s 50th anniversary special.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pat Houston, executor of the singer&#8217;s estate, has called the new project &#8220;a testament of Whitney&#8217;s heart.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The album includes live covers of Simon &amp; Garfunkel&#8217;s &#8220;Bridge Over Troubled Water&#8221; and Edwin Hawkins&#8217; &#8220;This Day,&#8221; both recorded at VH1 Honors in 1995, as well as a live medley of the religious songs &#8220;He&#8221; and &#8220;I Believe,&#8221; recorded in 1990 at the Yokohama Arena in Japan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The other unreleased tracks are &#8220;I Found a Wonderful Way&#8221; and &#8220;He Can Use Me.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Continuing Houston&#8217;s Legacy<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The release of the new project comes shortly after Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody \u2014 a biopic starring Naomi Ackie as the music legend \u2014 arrived on Blu-ray and DVD on February 28.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The British actress spent six months preparing for the role, mastering the late singer&#8217;s movements, mannerisms, and accent.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":154650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[410,398,3588],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-and-culture","category-music","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}