A Song for You: My Life with Whitney Houston

Robyn Crawford

Penguin, Nov 12, 2019 - Biography & Autobiography - 336 pages

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.

What people are saying

LibraryThing Review

User Review  - LVStrongPuff - LibraryThing

This book is so heartbreaking. You can never really know what is going on in a person's life and what they go through. Whitney really did have a problem that no one was helping her with. It is sad that her life ended because really only 2 people in her life tried to help her get off drugs.

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I love the read. It's a can't put down book and I just read some of the sample pages, love it.

Contents

• Two Like an Angel: 19
• Three Love Love: 33
• Seven You Give Good Love: 97
• TwentyOne: 105
• TwentyThree: 119
• Eleven Tell On Your Damned Self: 147
• Twelve Moving Fast at Twice the Speed: 155
• Thirteen Can I Be Me?: 165
• Fourteen From Sea to Shining Sea: 181
• TwentyFour: 209

About the author

After a long career in the music industry, Robyn Crawford is now focused on mental and physical wellness and writing. She lives in New Jersey with her wife and children.

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Song for You: My Life with Whitney Houston
• Author: Robyn Crawford
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Penguin, 2019
• ISBN: 1524742864, 9781524742867
• Length: 336 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts; Biography & Autobiography / Music; Biography & Autobiography / Rich & Famous