Word: houstonize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that's precisely why the raw traditionalism of Cissy Houston's new album, Face to Face, is so refreshing. It's one of the first releases from House of Blues Music Company Recordings, a new record label owned by the people who operate the House of Blues theme-restaurant/performance venues (the disparate investors include Dan Aykroyd, the Harvard Endowment Fund and Aerosmith). The new label plans to specialize in releasing blues and blues-influenced albums from both younger performers and underappreciated older ones...
...Houston, a former member of the '60s R.-and-B. quartet The Sweet Inspirations, isn't as famous as her superstar daughter Whitney, but Face to Face shows she's got a throat made from the same 18-karat gold. And although the elder Houston's new album probably won't sell as well as slicker, more contemporary-sounding gospel releases--and it certainly won't move as many units as the typical Whitney CD--its unabashed religiosity indicates that Houston has her sights set on a higher, very personal audience...
This track that has been the focus of a three year comeback will be put to the test today along with its home team. After spending spring break in warm and sunny Houston, Texas, both men and women have returned to the Northeast to brave the colder climate and overcome early season injury and illness...
...recalls. "I'd gotten over the 'Why me?' and spoken to a number of friends who had had successful surgery. That's where I was going to make my stand." Now what? Searching for an answer, he scheduled a bone-marrow test at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston to determine if the cancer had spread to his bones. If it had, his life expectancy would be measured in months, and he was hardly sanguine about the outcome. "I had not been successful in one test I'd taken," he recalls. "Every test I'd taken had turned...
...have suffered from the disease, but none quite so publicly as Dole. He is honorary co-chairman of US TOO, a national support group for prostate-cancer survivors, and has sponsored prostate-cancer screenings at such improbable venues as the Kansas State Fair and the 1992 Republican Convention in Houston...