Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody | Film | 2022 (2024)

FAQs

Did Naomi Ackie sing in the Whitney Houston movie? ›

She told Yahoo UK, “I sing the first song that you hear in the film, when she's a big younger and needed to be refined. But most of it is Whitney. I just sing for the dramatic beats, so I sing in one of the office scenes, when she's choosing a track.

"I Wanna Dance With Somebody" strives to be the most authentic retelling of Whitney Houston's life. The biopic was made in collaboration with Houston's family and longtime mentor Clive Davis. But the film still strays from the truth or leaves out important moments from the singer's life.

Ackie lip-synched to Houston's songs, though she does her own singing in a few early scenes.

"I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)" was a worldwide sensation, and Houston was only 23-years-old at the time of its release.

"I'm Every Woman" is a song by American singer Chaka Khan, released in September 1978 by Warner Bros. as her debut solo single from her first album, Chaka (1978). It was Khan's first hit outside her recordings with the funk band Rufus.

While the two remained friends up until Whitney Houston's death in 2012, Robyn Crawford did eventually distance herself from the late singer. In 2000, Crawford had concerns about the state of Houston's personal life and felt she could not support some of the decisions that were being made.

What started off as romantic turned into a decades-long friendship between the singer and her closest companion. The time: Summer of 1980. The place: A community center in East Orange, New Jersey.

No , Whitney Houston did not write all of her own songs . While she did co - write some of her songs , the majority of her hits were written by other songwriters . For example , her iconic hit " I Will Always Love You " was written by Dolly Parton .

Ashton Sanders as Bobby Brown.

Ashton played Chiron in the 2016 Oscar-winning drama film Moonlight. He's since acted in The Equalizer 2, Native Son, Captive State, and Wu-Tang: An American Saga, among other projects. In Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody, Ashton portrays Bobby Brown.

Doctors placed Brown in an induced coma after determining her brain function was "significantly diminished", and her family was told a meaningful recovery would be "a miracle". Brown died in hospice care on July 26, 2015, at age 22.

Is Bobbi Kristina Brown still living? ›

July 26, 2015 (age 22 years), Duluth, GA

Bobbi Kristina Brown / Died

At the time of their first meeting—at the Soul Train Music Awards in 1989—Houston, then 25, was riding a wave of success that appeared unstoppable, and Brown was a 20-year-old who had already made a smash album.

The film does accurately capture the unprecedented contractual deal, “in perpetuity and throughout the universe,” which was struck between Houston and the Arista label. Davis' loyalty to the singer is true, as is his nonchalant bisexual admission, which was confirmed in his 2013 memoir The Soundtrack of My Life.

Parton wrote “I Will Always Love You,” and the words and musical composition were registered with the Copyright Office in 1973. Whitney Houston, who put her own style and powerful vocals into some of the most popular recordings of all time, wasn't the first person to record a cover of the song.