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divastation: whitney houston |
 | | her early training, however, was not limited to her participation in the church choir; with famed gospel and session singer cissy houston for her mother, whitney houston was also privy to the behind-the-scenes world of the recording sessions of some of the industry's biggest names—aretha franklin, dionne warwick, linda ronstadt, bette midler and many others. |
| | "when whitney was a kid," her father relates, "she used to go down to the basement of the house wearing her mother's stage outfits and start singing, and her mother would be doing the dishes in the kitchen, shouting down to whitney, 'you're not hitting the notes, come on, a little higher. |
| | whitney continued on with acting/singing roles in 1996's the preacher's wife (which earned houston award nominations is a category more associated with her days singing in the hope baptist junior choir…gospel) and rodgers and hammerstein's cinderella, opposite diva-in-training brandy. |
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