Just hearing her music throughout the film, you realize just how special she was,” she says. But, Macdonald says, “I think you often learn more by what people refuse to say than what they do say. He served in the U.S. Armed Forces, serving an active tour of duty in Vietnam. Celebrate and remember the lives we have lost in Houston, Texas. Arthur, TX.
He was born in Houston, Texas on November 24, 1965 to Frank Anthony Costa Sr. and Maurine Costa.
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After a successful career singing backup for such artists as Roy Hamilton, Dionne Warwick, Elvis Presley and Aretha Franklin, Houston embarked on a solo career, winning two Grammy Awards for her work. “Everybody has a story. Houston, TX; We could uncover more information on Gary at any time - we update our databases every 24 hours! She just played hers out in public because she was an icon.”“Whitney” recounts that, while working at a summer job, a 16-year-old Houston met Robyn Crawford, who went on to become her personal assistant. It was evil, it was wicked.”Both Gary and Michael Houston — who would travel with their sister and serve as bodyguards — admit to their own evildoing in facilitating and participating in their sister’s drug use. Early life. People like Bobby had red lines that they wouldn’t cross.”“Whitney” traces Houston’s story back to her early years in the streets of Newark, New Jersey, where she was born into a musical family that included her mother, esteemed backup singer Cissy Houston, and cousins Dionne and Dee Dee Warwick. Gary was born in Houston, Texas on October 31, 1954. Born to Emma and Rufus Dorsey on June 27, 1940, in Houston, TX, he grew up in Pt. “That has nothing to do with this documentary,” he insists when pressed.
Hudson has starred in over 30 films and worked with numerous Oscar and Emmy winners.
But it was a friend of the brothers, Keith Kelly, who admits that he was the one who first gave Houston drugs — a bag of marijuana and a snort of cocaine — on her 16th birthday.“I was shocked learning about how bullied Whitney was at school,” says Macdonald, “and how it was because she was considered to be this light-skinned black person in a darker-skinned neighborhood, and [because] her mother dressed her prettily. “She used to say, ‘I wonder if I did something to make her think I wanted her.’”Certainly, the film clears up any lingering misconception that it was Houston’s ex-husband, Bobby Brown, who exposed her to drugs. In her true element singing live, she would transcend any of her studio recordings.
“I wanted people to see her on a human level as the little girl who got lost.”When her mother, Cissy, was on the road with her music career, and father, John, would also be away, Houston and her brothers Gary and Michael would stay with different people, which seems to be when she suffered the sexual abuse that is revealed on-screen by both Pat Houston and Whitney’s longtime personal assistant, Mary Jones.