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A Song for You: My Life with Whitney Houston

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Robyn Crawford

10 Hours 25 Minutes

Penguin Audio

November 2019

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The New York Times Bestseller!

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 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.

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  • Anonymous

    Thank you Robin for telling your truth..

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  • Blessing A.

    wow am feeling so emotional right now

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  • Brooke J.

    I loved this book so much. I've waited years to hear from Robyn. I felt her authenticity, her love for Whitney and her absolute truth in what she experienced and what life was like for Whitney Houston. I found myself very emotional at times. Excellent and worth the wait. I'm happy Robyn narrated it herself.

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  • HEIDI W.

    simply beautiful❤

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  • Yemisi B.

    AMAZING story. Such an in-depth and real to the bone analysis of a life of a star, Black (un)realities in a racist world and non-heteronormative love. The fact that she reads the text herself gives it such a personal energy, I cried often - and I feel with her, with them…I can’t believe this side of famous Whitney Houston’s story wasn’t listened to earlier. Lives could have been saved if anyone would have cared to listen. Cared to care for Black women. I feel for Robyn and am for ever thankful she shared her story with the world. Definitely an elder to look up to

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  • Anonymous

    The book did justice to the author's friendship with Whitney. It does not, in any way, sound like Robyn Crawford exploited her experiences in exchange for money or to stay relevant after her friend's death. The only downside of this audiobook is that there's absolutely no sound effect to make the narration more real (ie: doors slamming, phone dialing, fans cheering, all those lively noises). And -- certainly due to copyrights -- no music excerpts too. Since I was discovering Whitney's music career through the book, I had to pause several times to look up the songs on Youtube. I'd say, the book is very good! the narration is good too. But the flat recording would make it difficult for me to replay this audiobook twice. It's my first audiobook on this platform, though, so I don't know if all the other books have zero sound effects like this one. Hopefully not... I'm used to listening to narrations with good sound effects montage that makes me feel like I'm really into the story.

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  • Gina R.

    Great read

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  • Debra J.

    I really enjoyed this book. It needs to be a movie! Thank you Robyn for sharing.

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  • Anonymous

    The storytelling was phenomenal. It shed a lot of light--in a non-defamatory way--into not only the life of Whitney Houston, but into the life Robyn Crawford, a true friend of Houston. Though it was a "tell all," I found some aspects to be very inspiring for my own personal life.

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  • Julian S.

    A well-written and narrated book. I really enjoyed listening to it several times over. It was so refreshing to get the true story in Robyn's own words. Her version of the story I can trust, since I knew she was right there with Whitney to experience things firsthand. Great work, Robyn! You did Whitney proud.

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