The TV station “Deluxe Music” will hold a Whitney Special called “an evening with Whitney Houston” on Thursday 25.02.2010 at 20.15 CET. You can stream it here at the “Deluxe Music” Website.

Brisbane Concert Review
Source: News.au.com

BEFORE there was Britney, there was Whitney. The vocal powerhouse began her first Australian tour in 22 years at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre last night to a packed house.
Although Spears may have stolen Houston’s title of “best-selling debut album by a female artist”, Houston blew her out of the water with her high-voltage stage show and singing prowess.
Houston, 46, opened the concert with the up-beat song, For the Lovers from her latest album, I Look To You, released in September.
Wearing a black mini-dress, knee-high boots and a trench coat, Houston cut a lean and toned figure as she strutted across the stage.
Relaxed and talkative with the crowd, the performer was in high spirits as she sang a number of songs from her new release.
She soon changed into a white suit to sing some of her biggest hits including Saving All My Love For You, The Greatest Love of All and I Wanna Dance With Somebody.
Her seven-piece band was pumping and although touring Korea and Japan has taken a toll on the strength of her vocals, Houston delivered a knock-out show.

Nothing But Love

I Love The Lord

The audio quality of the following clips is not very good. As soon as better versions will be available we will post them:
Saving All My Love For You

The Greatest Love Of All

I Wanna Dance With Somebody

Here’s a clip of Whitney dancing on stage:

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One of the biggest voices in entertainment has landed in Brisbane for the Australian leg of her world tour. Whitney Houston will also perform in the Hunter Valley, Sydney and Melbourne, as part of a major comeback. The pop diva’s arrival comes amid rumours she’ll be the star act at next week’s Mardi Gras celebrations. (Source: Sky News)

Whitney touches down in Brisbane

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Here are some clips from Whitney singing at the Saitama Super Arena, Japan:

Whitney gave the folllowing interview to the Melbourne’s Herald Sun:

Whitney’s labour of love

February 19, 2010 4:49PM
WHITNEY Houston knows how to win a fight. But, tonight at Saitama Arena, near Tokyo, her foe is proving to be a formidable challenger. Houston, a superstar who triumphed over an abusive marriage and drug addiction, is battling an air conditioner.
“I can’t do air conditioning,” she explains later, in a humidified dressing room. “It takes my top (vocal range) out.”
To prove it, Houston unleashes a high note, which, minutes earlier, a cooling system almost silenced.
“It’s back now because there is moisture and the air is warm. Oh yes,” she grins brightly, “it’s back.”
Whitney Houston has also returned to centre stage, for the first time in 10 years. She has every reason to smile.
Her latest album, I Look To You, and tour, Nothing But Love, are about strength, optimism, gratitude and love.
“My intention is – I want the people to feel that it’s coming from my heart,” Houston says.
“At one point in time, I almost decided that I didn’t want to be in it anymore.
“The music had changed, the industry had changed, the quality had changed. And I didn’t like it.”
However, Houston felt encouraged by two things – supporters pleading for her to get back in the game and a new generation of powerhouse singers.
“Christina Aguilera, Jennifer Hudson and Beyonce – they stirred my curiosity about coming back and making a record. But that’s only one part of the industry,” Houston says firmly.
“To actually sing, perform and have people come to hear a real voice, a God-given gift, is really important to me.”
Houston pulls no punches in her opinion of how the game lacks quality.
“It’s almost like we were dealing with an industry that had turned to soft porn,” she says. “Instead of listening to a voice, an instrument, a gift from God, we had to watch people take off their clothes constantly. It left nothing to the imagination, nothing you could long for. You couldn’t say, ‘Oh, that song, that melody, that voice’.”
She does not name the offenders, but in citing Aguilera, Hudson and Knowles as inspirations, her hit list is obvious.
There is one polite request for this interview: no personal questions, please.
Houston feels she gave everything about her emotional torment with former husband Bobby Brown, and their drug dependence, to US broadcaster Oprah Winfrey last year.
Houston feels nothing but love on this tour. Backstage, it is free from drama, extravagance and hangers-on.
Whitney’s older brother, Gary, is a backing vocalist on the tour. His wife, Patricia, co-manages Houston.
“It keeps me happy, supported,” Houston says. “I don’t have the weight of bull…. for lack of a better word.
“I don’t have the worry about marriage and this and that. As you become older, you have the wisdom to know the difference.”
Houston says family and faith are the reasons for her renewed success.
“My faith in God is true to me. It helped me in my life,” she says.
“Everything else I could have experienced failed. Marriage, whatever else I’d been doing, failed. It was not solid.
“But my faith stayed solid. It helped me get through tough times.”
Those trials and how Houston overcame them, are raised, lyrically, in the tour’s opening songs, For The Lovers, I Look To You, and Nothing But Love.
Houston’s show is divided into acts – vibrant new cuts, snapshots from the past decade, acoustic versions of her power ballads, a standout gospel moment and dance floor finale.
It is sexy and sophisticated, playful and passionate, classy and classic – a reminder of Houston’s power as interpreter and performer. Her voice – smooth, husky and, at times, raw and intense – is still on point.
“It’s grown up,” she says of her voice, which the Los Angeles Times once called a “national treasure”.
“It’s the voice of a grown woman that’s had ups and downs.”

Here’s the making of video from the “Exhale (Shoop Shoop)” video (thanks to whitneyhouston.ru). “Exhale (Shoop Shoop)”, written and produced by Babyface, was the first single taken from the soundtrack to Whitney’s second movie “Waiting to Exhale”. The song was released on Novemver 7, 1995. The camera mainly focuses on Houston with close-ups as she sings in the Video. The video is also cut with intermediate scenes from the Waiting To Exhale movie. Directed by Forest Whitaker. Houston entered the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 at the #1 position with “Exhale”, becoming only the third single in U.S. history to enter at number one and Houston’s eleventh and to date last number one single on the Billboard Hot 100. It stayed at number-one for just one week as Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men’s duet “One Sweet Day” debuted at the summit the next week. This in turn led to “Exhale” settling into the number-two position where it resided for eleven weeks, becoming the single with the longest stay at number two on the U.S. Hot 100 in Billboard history. The single was certified platinum, and remained in the Top 40 for twenty weeks.

Making Of The Exhale Video

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