Whitney: Five great performances

From her first lead vocal, to the single that placed her at the heart of the 90s R&B revolution, here are five classic Memories (1982)Although Whitney Houston had sung back-up on record (she appears on Chaka Khan's I'm Every Woman) and onstage, her first lead vocal was with a most unlikely set of collaborators – the New York experimentalists led by Bill Laswell who worked under the banner of Material. You'd never guess she was only 19 when it was recorded: she sounds absolutely unbothered by t...

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