We have lost The Greatest Love of All! A lot of people who know me will be surprised to see that I used the word lost. When someone passes, that’s another word that I don’t use. I use the word die. It works for me. I understand the sentiment and meaning behind lost, passed, gone but I guess that I am old school. So I’ll stick with what I know. I remember where I was at the exact moment when I found out Whitney died. I eventually Exhaled and accepted what I heard and then my mind took me back to my childhood. I remember sitting in the living room, who am I kidding standing and dancing in the living room when the video of How Will I Know came on. Child, I was dancing all over the living room and just loving this woman. I was in VA Beach when I Want To Dance With Somebody had me dancing with everybody. When I moved to NY She had me All At Once. She had me falling in love many times  and before I did, she had me asking How Will I Know?  And when the break ups came she had me exclaiming Didn’t We Almost Have It All?. She also told me that when I was feeling down and out that Love Will Save The Day.

Whitney, I call her by her first name because we were close, Her music made me feel close to her, like she was the girlfriend I could talk to. Whitney could sing anything to me and I would believe and hear it! Whitney was my girlfriend when She told me  I  Believe In You And Me! Giving me back my spirit through her music. Whitney didn’t just sing a song, she became the song. The words flowed from her mouth like pennies from heaven. I remember watching her singing One Moment In Time and every note, every lyric and every movement of her body that she sang had me thinking that she was in spiritual contact with the universe and when she was done the audience leapt to their feet in applause and so did I sitting at home with chills running up and down my spine.  And as she always did when she sang live, she opened her eyes, took a bow, and applauded back to the audience with all the grace, class and style that came with that Voice of hers. Saying that Whitney was the soundtrack of my life who be a understaement. She helped me heal when I was in and out of love. She let me be Queen Of The Night when I needed to let my hair down.  She told me that I’m Every Woman and that it was all in me. Allowing me to get in touch with my feminine side helping me to stay out of the closet. Her greatest gift that she gave to me a long time ago was singing to me I will always Love You. So even in her passing I will know and cherish these words! Words I’d like to give Whitney, Thank you, doesn’t seem like enough but I’m sure that she could sing the words and from her voice a song would explode onto the planet creating another hit for the Voice. So Where Do Broken Hearts Go? Good question and I think I may have the answer, to the music that is Whitney that will live on until the end of time.

What are some of your favorite Whitney songs?

James Pearson