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...AMERICAN CENTURY PART II Andy Warhol's Elvis will be among the stars in the Whitney Museum's continuing survey. Opens Sept...
...young singer also broadened her palette by studying the blues recordings of Etta James and B.B. King. Now Aguilera blends the whoops, swoops and clean lines of a pure voice like Whitney Houston's with the darker, more earthy tones of the blues, giving her singing a sturdy backbone. RCA Records heard her demo tape, brought her in to sing a cappella and signed her up. The upcoming CD shows off her range. Come On Over is a gospel-tinged R.-and-B. rouser that gives her a chance to shout; So Emotional is a Brandy-style midtempo ballad that...
...birth kids. But do they know it themselves? Depends on who's doing the raising. Becca, as her family calls her, has no inkling of the infamous switch. "She doesn't understand. It's too early to tell her," says Tommy Rogers, her "grandfather," that is, the father of Whitney Rogers, the woman who brought Becca home from the University of Virginia Medical Center in July 1995. Meanwhile, the woman who took Callie home from the same hospital prides herself on telling her "daughter" the truth. Calling the four-year-old to the phone last week during an interview, Paula...
Callie's biological parents, Whitney Rogers and Kevin Chittum, were killed in a traffic accident on July 4, 1998, just days before they would have learned of the switch. And in mourning the young parents, there had been some hope that Callie and Becca's accidentally conjoined clans could let the girls share their lives together. A month after the deaths, the Chittums and the Rogerses, who share the care of Rebecca, and Johnson met and seemed to get along. The girls went swimming together in a family pool. Then Callie spent a week visiting Becca's extended family...
Wailing like Aretha, sweating like James Brown, the Whitney Houston who took the stage July 17 at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia was not the singer you've come to know from her recorded work; this Houston was deeper, tougher, feistier. Her voice is not as bottled-water pure as it once was, but it's more real now, breaking on the high notes, letting emotion spill out. She belted out her hits, of course--I Will Always Love You, You Give Good Love--but also soared through a gospel medley that took the crowd higher...