Producer Narada Michael Walden takes EW behind the scenes of Houston’s second album.
Thirty years ago today, Whitney Houston released her second album,Whitney a follow-up 1985sWhitney Houston.
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Whitney was the kind of person who loved the sound of her voice shed get turned on by herself!
So he and Houston tweaked it significantly.
Mick was recording next door and he had to come in and witness it, says Walden.
He started jumping around, as he does, and he just couldnt believe the sound.
Whitney was so excited about that.
They got so caught up in singing it.
And Whitneys love for her mother was so apparent.
1 singles and earned Houston one Grammy, and its since been certified nine-times platinum.
She would acknowledge the engineers, and how much heart and soul went into that album.
Its a pulse that still thumps after all these years.
The rhythms and the melodies onWhitney thats what makes this thing live.
Whitney understood R&B music, and she had that in her heart and her soul.
A version of this story appeared in the June 2-9, 2017 issue of Entertainment Weekly.
