Because whanau is the most important thing on this earth…. here’s to you Su! Some Whitney for the USA.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 4.3.11~
Category Archives: Whitney Houston
SONG FOR YOU – PART II – WHITNEY HOUSTON
Whitney Houston once sung the American classic, Song for You, for troops in the Gulf War. Here’s that performance.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 3.22.11~
THE HORIWOOD TOP TEN – SUN 3.20.11
One nation can accurately share economic outlooks quickly. Economic outlook grim until 2013 – NZIER.
Cancer treatment needs more of a focus, as a woman dies after 35-day wait for cancer surgery.
Today though, there was no stopping Maori-Kiwi comedian Jermaine Clement chalking up the most hits on a Hollywood blog, in one of the most life altering weeks, we will ever witness in our lifetime to date. In honor of Jemaine’s sense of humor, here’s the original, Jermaine Jackson singing with Whitney Houston in the spurgeoning years of her career, a mild American hit song. Stars are always made.
Here’s our top ten as you voted the news.
1. Jemaine Clement – Like water for hot chocolate elephants
2. Operation Ellamy & Odyssey Dawn – France, UK, USA, Libya
3. Two moon junction – Florida & West Auckland
4. China’s stance on Libya sounds conflicted a tad
5. Corey Miller‘s owl tattoo of LA
8. Game of thrones on HBO is horsey & set in winter
9. Cynthia Germanotta’s year of family highs and lows
10. Jemaine Clement Hollywood Post Office – Part II
Christchurch quake forces Disney on Ice to cancel NZ tour. NZ to give $1m to Red Cross in Japan.
News Quiz - March 21: How well do you know your news?
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 3.20.11~
HOME TUNES – JESSIE J TURNS ON A SHOW
For people absolutely convinced they need a bodyguard and a heightened sense of security, then perhaps you could benefit from listening to some Jessie J music. Jessie can even sing Whitney Houston‘s Bodyguard soundtrack material, not half so bad.
Exquisite U.K soul. cOOl. In Hollywood, I dig! What a gifted artist. Wow.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood, California USA. 3.6.11~
WATER BABIES AS CELEBRITIES OF US ALL
1 bilion people in the world don’t have access to clean drinking water. Yet we are made up of 63% H2O as people. I think true celebrity is about whose moving water flows in the world. It’s as simple as something like that.
Nicole Richie is one of the brightest stars that does all year round. She’s our girl. Click on pic to learn more about what we can do through initiatives like Global Water.
To make clean water flow in dry places where it needs to be the most, let’s do it. Thanks. Love you all.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 12.23.10~
EASTER MUSIC: WHITNEY HOUSTON AND JENNIFER HUDSON
I’m feeling me some gospel music today… because sometimes you need to look past men and their egos which mask a denial of fragility found in mortality– and you find that you need to look above their heads, at Someone greater and worthy of your attention, adoration and your spirit’s true worship.
Love will never block your worship to Someone greater. Love will support it. Therein lies the essence of Love at Easter time.
Here’s two songs from Whitney Houston and Jennifer Hudson who in the American tradition of gospel music and the cultural arts of America, are doing just that. Out of America’s dark roots in traditions of slavery, comes this sound. Over 400 years after the first slaves arrived in America from Africa, gospel music is still the sound of Amazing Grace today from Lady Liberty’s beautiful and resilient shores. As cheesy as it is, I Love it! Easter music doesn’t get more real than this. Happy Easter everyone.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 4.3.2010~
WHO WOULD IMAGINE A KING by WHITNEY HOUSTON for BOBBI KRISTINA’S B’DAY
Not everyone has a mother like Whitney Houston who can warble the sweetest lullabies to you on your 17th birthday while visiting the fun playground of Australia. But Bobbi Kristina does. Here’s the incomparable, Whitney Houston‘s Who Would Imagine A King sung live in kangaroo land for her daughter. Cute.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 3.17.2010~
TARANAKI FANS OF WHITNEY HOUSTON WILL HAVE TO FLY TO MELBOURNE TO SEE HER LIVE
Taranaki, the New Zeland region where Tom Cruise once filmed The Last Samurai were led to believe that Whitney Houston was performing live. Apparently not, New Zealand Whitney fans will now head to Melbourne, Australia to see her in concert
HORIWOOD.COM HITS THE 1.9 MILLION MILESTONE
Horiwood.Com has hit the 1.9 million milestone on Valentines day 2010. Above is some vintage Whitney Houston and thanks everyone. ~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.14.2010~
WHITNEY HOUSTON LIVE IN KOREA for CHERRY JOY
I grew up with a Maori sister who can sing like an angel, hori-liciously screaming Whitney Houston high notes down her afro comb hair brush night and day in front of the mirror. I swear! My sista can sing.
So, these clips of Houston’s Nothing But Love Tour are escpecially being beamed out today from Hollywood down to New Zealand for Cherry Joy. Hey anointed sista singa!
Sing it up girl! :)
It’s so awesome to see Houston back in the center of her destiny and dream. Inspiring musical performance.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 2.8.2010~
STRENGTH by WHITNEY HOUSTON
Strength is one of those beautiful characteristics in life… that is shared by the strong to inspire those who need some courage. True strength is found after enduring the longest and darkest night of one’s soul.
Sometimes you can even wonder, when that’s going to end. But courage arises in that moment to hold your hand and get you through. This one woman in this picture knows what true courage and grace really is.
To me, Whitney Houston‘s appearance and performance at the AMA’s is one of the great comeback moments of 2009 in American entertainment.
As Michael Jackson‘s bright show biz star, left this earth, Houston, his once peer, returns to inspire hope and great strength from America to the world.
Watch it again if you want to by pressing play here. I have watched this like about 5 times already. Whitney’s message is amazing. Great show biz moments rarely get more real or authentic than this. Enjoy!
[Image courtesy of Getty Images]
~This one’s going out to Cherry J-Bomb. Love ya singa! Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 11.30.09~
DONNIE OSMOND AND WHITNEY HOUSTON WIN DANCING WITH THE STARS SEASON 9
It was a case of established American show biz royalty winning big on Dancing With The Stars as Donny Osmond (with the help of his dance partner Kym Johnson) were crowned the winners of DWTS Season 9.
That being said, it was really Whitney Houston who wowed the crowd on finale night with her performances of Million Dollar Bill and I Wanna Dance With Somebody.
Artists like Houston who have inspired over a billion people to dance the world over with her gift of song, (she is after all the living, female equivalent version of Michael Jackson) are rare in their ability to dip into their entertainment archives and perform two songs spanning over two decades of outstanding entertainment from America.
What an amazing star and artist Whitney Houston is and she delivered for the highlight of the night for DWTS audiences.
Video footage of Whitney’s performance is below. Congrats Donnie, Kym & Whitney Houston. If you want to sing along when you press play with a real American diva when she performs, lyrics of both songs follow below.
WHITNEY HOUSTON AMA’S PERFORMANCE: JESUS IS IN THIS WOMAN!
Here’s Whitney‘s incredible performance of I Didn’t Know My Own Strength from Sunday’s American Music Awards events show.
She is a living miracle and when she sings, Jesus turns up. Enjoy the uplifting entertainment from perhaps the greatest voice that ever graced the Ameriacn pop world.
Flawed vessels are always so much more interesting to observe. In their lives we see God.
Like, I’ve watched this uplifting shizzle about 3 times this morning. Thanks Whitney!
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA 11.23.09~
RIHANNA FERGIE WHITNEY ARE ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT’S TOP AMA DIVAS
Entertainment Tonight is the TV show in American entertainment that draws the largest American audience to it for entertainment news. 14 million Americans.
ET’s website lists Rihanna, Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas and the incomparable great, Whitney Houston as their top three divas who performed at the American Music Awards 2009.
Expect to see prime time TV coverage tomorrow of these three ladies. Magazine coverage will follow next week. The most moving moment of the AMA’s was when Country legend Reba McIntyre wept as Whitney Houston performed. That’s what music and entertainment is all about. Inspiring others.
[Images courtesy of Kevork Djansezian / Getty Images]
~Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA 11.22.09~
WE LOVE YOU TOO WHITNEY HOUSTON… AMA’s 2009! WOW!
Whitney Houston wins the International Music Award at the AMA’s, Sunday.
Congrats. What an amazing woman and artist. What a diva!!!
[Image of Whitney Houston c/- Getty Images]
Lyrics to Whitney’s soulful and stirring performance of her song, I Didn’t Know My Own Strength follow. Whitney’s lyrics remind me of my mom, whose just visited in Los Angeles. Enjoy!:
WHITNEY HOUSTON FEELS LIKE A MILLION DOLLAR BILL IN THE UK
Whitney Houston feels like a Million Dollar Bill performing her single on the UK’s X Factor show.
Who cares if Whitney can’t remember when her new album drops in The UK or when her tour begins, exactly, this is Whitney freakin Houston. Gosh…. girl needs to stop getting stage fright so bad… but she still does!
The singer who says she “sung myself out of my clothes” gave a live performance, whereas many so called divas don’t sing live these days. Props. Go here to see Whitney perform.
POETIX: PAPER GANGSTA SUPERMARKET AISLES -3.10.2010
Today my Maori gaze met with a mother’s eyes
stealing discretely to feed her child
in West Hollywood’s ”me, myself, I“
cruisy supermarket aisles
And as Lenord Cohen’s Hallelujah
played softly in the background
I wondered which paper gangsta
had murdered this ’Lil Mama’s
ray of light
in her once strong
American dream.
[Art: , words: Horiwood. Madonna and Mercy James pic via Wooden Spears blog]
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 3.10.2010~
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