There’s no doubt in our minds that Whitney Houston will forever be remembered as one of the greatest voices of our time. We are truly blessed to have been able to experience the beauty of her unmatchable voice. In honor of her, I thought sharing a couple videos a will show how her voice can make any moment shine. The review below from 1993 says it best about Whitney, “the voice suffices.” And for that we thank you Whitney. Your voice will always live on.
Review/Pop; For Whitney Houston, Showy Doesn’t Count: The Show Is the Voice
Published: July 22, 1993
Whitney Houston is one of the few contemporary pop stars of whom it might be said: the voice suffices. While almost every performer whose albums sell in the millions calls upon an entertainer’s bag of tricks, from telling jokes to dancing to circus pyrotechnics, Ms. Houston would rather just stand there and sing. When not standing still, she either paces back and forth across the stage or sits on a stool. She doesn’t tell jokes. When she talks, her patter has the clunky ring of predigested interview responses.
What largely makes up for the dearth of entertainment values in Ms. Houston’s shows is a voice made of steel and smoke that can send chills through an audience. And at Tuesday’s opening-night performance of a Radio City Music Hall engagement that extends through Monday, that voice rang magnificently through the auditorium.
For the last eight years, Ms. Houston has reigned as the foremost interpreter of the sort of stentorian pop ballad that paints romantic love in grandiose, semi-religious terms. The song titles of her hits speak for themselves: “You Give Good Love,” “Saving All My Love for You,” “The Greatest Love of All,” “Didn’t We Almost Have It All,” “All the Man That I Need.”