Thursday, April 1, 2010

The Reappearance of Houston

A light heart lives long.

It is not rare that the celebrities have gone down from the career prime due to drug abuse but during the past few months, incidents like this have happened one after another. Most of these celebrity drug users have never been able to recover after their decline, but some started over again and managed to amaze the world again, and Whitney Houston is one of them. After 7-year silence, Whitney Houston finally climbed out of the valley of life, and to appear in front of fans with a new image, and bring her latest album, "I Look to You".

This album sold nearly 305,000 copies in opening week, entered the Billboard that is the most credible in American at No.1, and was called 'the biggest return of the year' by the American singing business. Whitney Houston's new record is not blindly chasing the trend, in fact, it use pragmatic simplicity style to show her fans a satisfactory answer sheet. Even though the voice isn't as glory and high-pitched as before due to the drug, hoarse voice is full of vicissitudes of the texture and even more appealing. While proving herself again with her singing ability, Whitney Houston also faces the media actively and has received all kinds of interviews. Recently She appeared on famous talk-show host Oprah Winfrey's interviw, and calmly explained herself for her past drug addiction.

After singing for original sound music "I Will Love You Forever" of the film Bodyguard in 1992,Whitney began to become famous,but she lost former quietness gradually and became impulsive. In the marriage with her previous husband Bobby Brown, Whitney suffered domestic violence and started taking drug because of her husband till she was out of control. She can not go out the door and only put on sleep- clothing for 7 monthon the most corrupt days,and she has enjoying the large charge by the narcotics to bring. In 2002, Whitney was found with possession of drugs at the airport, thus beginning the hard struggle with the drugs for years, and meanwhile suffered divorce and endless troubles. While in the interview, Whitney did not shift responsibility to her husband but admitted her mistakes bravely.

She said, "Luckily, God did not let me go. And now I have learnt how to treasure things and got rid of distracting thoughts as well as lots of fat." 46 year-old Whitney Houston did not admit having left song circles, she said, "You like to look for topics, saying 'I am back'. In fact, I always have been here, have been here and just got a break."