Title: A Song for You Pdf My Life with Whitney Houston
After decades of silence, Robyn Crawford, close friend, collaborator, and confidante of Whitney Houston, shares her story.
Whitney Houston is as big a superstar as the music business has ever known. She exploded on the scene in 1985 with her debut album and spent the next two decades dominating the charts and capturing the hearts of fans around the world. One person was there by her side through it all - her best friend, Robyn Crawford.
Since Whitney's death in 2012, Robyn has stayed out of the limelight and held the great joys, wild adventures, and hard truths of her life with Whitney close to her heart. Now, for the first time ever, Crawford opens up in her new memoir, A Song for You.
With warmth, candor, and an impressive recall of detail, Robyn describes the two meeting as teenagers in the 1980s, and how their lives and friendship evolved as Whitney recorded her first album and Robyn pursued her promising Division I basketball career. Together during countless sold-out world tours, behind the scenes as hit after hit was recorded, through Whitney's marriage and the birth of her daughter, the two navigated often challenging families, great loves, and painful losses, always supporting each other with laughter and friendship.
Deeply personal and heartfelt, A Song for You is the vital, honest, and previously untold story that provides an understanding of the complex life of Whitney Houston. Finally, the person who knew her best sets the record straight.
A Song for You by Robin Crawford Robin Crawford did an excellent job telling her story, it was tastefully done. She answered the question everyone asked and gave the inside scoop on her and Whitney Houston's life and their friendship. A job well doneLove, Protection, and Enabling... I can feel Robyn’s love and care for Whitney throughout this book and in every interview she’s done as she spoken about the writing of this book. Her words are measured and her empathy for her lifelong friend is evident. Whitney Houston was blessed to have her love and friendship for over two decades.It seems that even in this writing, she is still enabling and protecting Whitney’s legacy - which while reading, I loved and hated. She mildly spoke about incessant drug use as if it remained recreational. I was looking for more in-depth details about the singer’s decisions and what could have prompted them. I was reading each page and story, thinking that there was probably so much more to share but Crawford still chose to taper her storytelling to protect Houston. This makes me wonder who held the beloved singer accountable - and why they waited so long to confront her about her choices and addiction.I was impressed with Crawford’s ability to share her personal story of love, family, and self-care while balancing her reflection of her relationship with Houston. Her role as caretaker clearly saved her life but almost destroyed it. I was able to see why Crawford remained loyal to Houston for so long and how her choice impacted her ability to walk away when she believed it was the right time.I found myself believing that Crawford dismissed many of her feelings of loss, jealousy, and heartbreak as Whitney’s career and romantic life started to soar. There is a lesson to be learned when a person experiencing psychological loss while still choosing to interacting with a human being who caused the loss. Perhaps, Crawford was writing from a place of not quite knowing the lasting effects of her relationship with Houston. She seems to reconcile her feelings at the end of the book.Crawford gracefully shows us how to love and leave a person, something we are often afraid to do for many reasons. But I wanted more dangerous storytelling and more risk-taking.Friends, lovers, confidants and so much more is the relationship between Robyn Crawford and Whitney Houston. “A Song For You” begins with Robyn at 18 and Whitney at 15, their first meeting in E. Orange, New Jersey and continues thru every event of their turbulent life together and concludes with Whitney’s funeral. Nothing is held back.Crawford discusses her personal experiences loving Whitney, working for her and worrying about her. It was an all consuming job and life. This is highly evidenced with the sacrifices she made in her own family and with her own career in basketball. She shares her view and perspective on Whitney’s family, employee’s and famous friends. Much of this book is dark but the over riding feeling is one of love and care and perhaps, co-dependency.The writing style is familiar and comfortable and it’s professionally published and edited. A few pictures of Robyn, Whitney and their family and friends are included at the end. There are no warnings for language or sexual content but as you might surmise, there are many incidents of physical abuse and drug use.Robyn’s sole purpose in writing was to dispel the inaccuracies about herself and Whitney and to honor her friend. I think she was successful📚
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