Whitney Houston's family wants the foundation of her musical legacy — gospel — to continue to live on through a new posthumous gospel album and documentary under the same name, “I Go to the Rock: The Gospel Music of Whitney Houston.”
from “The Preacher’s Wife” soundtrack – the best-selling gospel album of all time. The project also includes six unreleased tracks – three of which were recorded when she was 17 years old.
Whitney Houston first started singing at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey, as a child. Between the mid-1980s to the late 1990s, she was one of the world’s best-selling artists with her effortlessly powerful vocals rooted in the Black church but made palatable to the masses with her pop persona.It understandably took time for the family to grieve after Whitney Houston’s death in 2012.
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