9/28/14 O&A Gospel Sunday: Whitney Houston

GOSPEL SUNDAY
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Whitney Houston was born on August 9, 1963 in what was then a middle-income neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey. At the age of 11, Houston started performing as a soloist in the junior gospel choir at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, where she also learned to play the piano. Her first solo performance in the church was Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah. When Houston was a teenager, she attended Mount Saint Dominic Academy, a Catholic girls’ high school in Caldwell, New Jersey.

For Gospel Sunday Out and About NYC Magazine presents four Houston gospel classics Yes, Jesus Loves Me, This Day, I Love The Lord, and a special encore performance.

Yes, Jesus Loves Me (1994)

This Day (1996)

I Love The Lord (1997)

ENCORE

Battle Hymm of the Republic (1991)

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