The Voice Whitney & Singing - 3:17:21, 8.45 PM

Story by: Gail Nobles<br />Photo credit: By John Mathew Smith &; <a href="http://www.celebrity-photos.com" rel="noopener">www.celebrity-photos.com</a> from Laurel Maryland, USA - WHITNEY HUSTON, <br />Usage: CC BY-SA 2.0, <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75843522" rel="noopener">https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75843522</a><br /><br />Hi, I’m Gail Nobles on the Whitney Soul Podcast and today’s topic is The Voice Whitney and Singing.<br /><br />In the beginning, before I heard Whitney Houston, songs seemed a lot easier to sing. Not everyone can sing just any song. So many of us grew up imitating voices singing songs we heard from radio to record player. We felt that if we couldn’t sound like the voice singing, no one would want to hear us sing. Either you had to sound like the singer of your favorite song or sound just as good or better using your voice. I never had a problem singing and one day I heard Whitney Houston. After hearing her, I tried singing some of her songs. I had a rough time with the Greatest Love of All because I could never sing that song all the way through. Singing the beginning of the song was okay.<br /><br />(Singing)<br /><br />But when she got a little louder and a little stronger (Singing) She was really singing out. I had no idea what Whitney was doing. Whenever I would try to sing out loud, it was stuck in my throat. (Singing). So whenever I got to "the greatest love of all” part, I would stop singing because I knew something wasn’t right. <br /><br />My mom would say, “Gail! Why do you stop singing? You stop singing every time. You sound good at the beginning.” <br /><br />And I would say, “I don’t know ma. I’m tired. I give out of breath. The song is too long.”<br /><br />And she’d say, “For one thing, you need to stand up and sing. You sit down too much. Standing up will help you sing out better.”<br /><br />I heard my mom, but I didn’t think it made a difference. I would sit and stare at Whitney watching her video. And when she would get to t