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A Song for You

My Life with Whitney Houston

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A Song for You

By: Robyn Crawford
Narrated by: Robyn Crawford
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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. Entertainment & Celebrities Celebrity Heartfelt Emotionally Gripping Biography Thought-Provoking Inspiring

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Critic reviews

“Crawford’s stunning memoir A Song for You, is much more complicated. She pays homage to her best friend with fond, funny, sometimes-tragic anecdotes, from their initial romantic connection as camp counselors in New Jersey to blow-ups with Bobby Brown and Houston’s mother, Cissy, years later. Crawford writes with pathos, clarity, and tenderness while tracing the tragedies that rocked her family and the Houstons."
—Pitchfork, The Best Music Books of 2019

"A superb teaching novel-like book, about love that protects but does not possess. We may think we're not ready for this, but we are....I so admire the dignity of this woman. And her beauty."
—Alice Walker on AliceWalkersGarden.com

“A generous, loving book that has more insight on Houston’s career—the ride, the fall—than any other single source that I’ve encountered...A Song for You is unequivocally worth the wait...Crawford has provided a crucial public service in her lovely, loving book.”
—Jezebel

“The vital, honest, and previously untold story that provides an understanding of the complex life of Whitney Houston.”
—LGBTQ Nation

“[A Song for You] is a story of becoming, of starting over and loving again, of healing in immeasurable ways that are both scarring yet beautiful.”
—She Reads
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Beautifully well written . If only we all had a friend like Robyn. What an amazing human being.

Excellent

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I’m a fan and getting your perspective on Whitney’s life and yours was a really precious experience. I could feel your love and benevolence throughout the reading. I feel for Whitney and everyone who lost her. That she couldn’t be herself, that she couldn’t find her way back to herself and back to life. I’m glad I read this story because it’s a love and selflove story.
Beautiful

So precious !

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I feel like we finally know the truth. So sad that Whitney was surrounded by those that simply used her including her family. This never should have happened. Well done Robyn!!

Heart wrenching and warming.

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What a story Robyn's life tells!

Beautifully and delicately written. She paints a picture of Whitney that only someone who truly loved and lost her could. I'm sure 'Nippy' would have been proud.

Moving at times... You are taken on an emotional roller coaster with this book.

But an overall feeling of great sadness comes with Robyn's accounts. Shakespeare couldn't have written a greater tragedy than the life of Whitney and Bobbi Kristina.

Blown away! A beautiful tribute to Whitney.

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Having been a huge Whitney Houston fan I was curious about this book. I thoroughly enjoyed it but felt very sad hearing how Whitney’s life changed, Robyn narrates well and I wonder if things had been different with Robyn, would Whitney be still alive today, such a waste of life and talent. It also highlights the pressures of fame and that money can’t buy you happiness! RIP Whitney, your music lives on xx

Whitney ❤️

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