{"id":40,"date":"2022-04-13T10:13:52","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T14:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/?page_id=40"},"modified":"2022-04-25T17:04:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T21:04:40","slug":"background-on-whitney-houston","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/whitney-houstons-cover-of-higher-love\/background-on-whitney-houston\/","title":{"rendered":"Background on Whitney Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_123\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-123 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/files\/2022\/04\/whitney3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-123\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">R&amp;B artist Whitney Houston<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Due to Whitney Houston\u2019s early upbringing in gospel music, as well as her early start to stardom at 19 which lead to her background in R&amp;B and pop, she had developed a range of vocal techniques and capabilities that were highlighted throughout her music in the form of a capella solos, rubato singing styles, frequent vocal ornamentation, modulations, and intense song climaxes (Rischar, 2004). Much like the rest of her discography, these elements of Houston\u2019s singing style were highlighted in her version of \u201cHigher Love.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to Whitney Houston\u2019s early upbringing in gospel music, as well as her early start to stardom at 19 which lead to her background in R&amp;B and pop, she had developed a range of vocal techniques and capabilities that were highlighted throughout her music in the form of a capella solos, rubato singing styles, frequent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/whitney-houstons-cover-of-higher-love\/background-on-whitney-houston\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Background on Whitney Houston<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5193,"featured_media":0,"parent":37,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"coauthors":[211748],"class_list":["post-40","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions\/180"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}