Affichage des articles dont le libellé est Whitney Houston. Afficher tous les articles
Affichage des articles dont le libellé est Whitney Houston. Afficher tous les articles

vendredi 17 février 2012

SHOCKER! OSAMA BIN LADEN WANTED TO MARRY WHITNEY HOUSTON


Osama bin Laden lusted after Whitney Houston, dreamed of marrying her and at one point even plotted to murder her husband Bobby Brown, a new book has claimed.

 The incredible account of the terrorist's infatuation with the late singer comes from Sudanese author Kola Boof, who it is widely accepted lived with him as his mistress.
 It was 1996, and just a few years later Bin Laden would mastermind the most appalling terrorist attack ever to happen on American soil.

 But holed-up in his Moroccan compound he had different things on his mind, namely sex, smoking cannabis and dancing to western pop groups like the B52s and Van Halen.

 Boof, who claims she was kept as a "sex slave" by the world's most dangerous terrorist, said he thought the singer was "the most beautiful woman he'd ever seen" and that he was desperate to marry her.

 In an autobiography released in 2006, Boof claims bin Laden plotted to have Brown murdered before wooing Houston by giving her a mansion he owned in the suburbs of Khartoum.

 According to her account, the strongly racist bin Laden puffed on cannabis before announcing he would be willing to "break his colour rule" and make Houstonone of his wives.

 Inside his warped mind he believed Houstonwas truly Islamic but had been brainwashed by American culture.

 Boof, who is black, claimed bin Laden scolded her for braiding her hair and ordered her to model herself on Houstoninstead.

 "He smoked a little marijuana from a gold hookah, sipping his tea and instructing me that I was always to keep hot tea for his 'kif-canbo', to ease the burn in his chest," the Daily Mail quoted Boof as writing in her book.

 "Osama said only monkeys braid their hair. He told me that the singer Whitney Houston was the most beautiful woman he'd ever seen and that she never wore her hair braided.

 "'I want you to fix your hair like hers from now on,' he said. 'I can't put my fingers through it when it's braided.

 "Osama kept coming back to Whitney Houston. He asked if I knew her personally when I lived in America. I told him I didn't.

 "He said that he had a paramount desire for Whitney Houston, and although he claimed music was evil, he spoke of someday spending vast amounts of money to go to Americaand try to arrange a meeting with the superstar.

 "It didn't seem impossible to me. He said he wanted to give Whitney Houston a mansion that he owned in a suburb of Khartoum. He explained to me that to possess Whitney he would be willing to break his colour rule and make her one of his wives.

 "I tried to hide my outrage at his racist remarks, but it would come to pass that for the entire time that I would be trapped in his palm, Whitney Houston's was the one name that would be mentioned constantly.

 "How beautiful she is, what a nice smile she has, how truly Islamic she is but is just brainwashed by American culture and her husband-Bobby Brown, whom Osama talked about having killed, as if it were normal to have women's husbands killed.

 "In his briefcase I would come across photographs of the star, as well as copies of Playboy, but nobody in the West believes me when I tell them this. It's like they have this totally bogus image of Osama bin Laden.

 "Anyway, it would soon come to the point where I was sick of hearing Whitney Houston's name," she wrote.

 Her story first surfaced in 2002 when the Guardian newspaper published an article claiming she had had a forced sexual relationship with bin Laden.

 Later in a two-part interview with MSNBC she was billed as the "Former Mistress of Osama Bin Laden".

 While some claimed she had made up the story and that it was impossible because of her afro-American heritage, Boof has stood by her account and points out that yet two of bin Laden's twenty-five children are black and his Syrian grandmother also could be considered a Black woman.

jeudi 16 février 2012

WHITNEY HOUSTON'S SATURDAY FUNERAL TO BE STREAMED ONLINE


Fans worldwide who want to bid Whitney Houston farewell will be able to watch her private funeral on the World Wide Web.

Her publicist, Kristen Foster, announced that The Associated Press will be the pool camera for the Saturday ceremony in Newark, New Jersey, and the AP will stream the service on livestream.com/aplive.

Houston died in Beverly Hills, California, on Saturday at the age of 48. Her body was flown back to her native New Jersey on Monday.

Some fans were disappointed when they learned that the funeral was private and no public memorial was planned.
Houston was born in Newarkand the service will be at New Hope Baptist Church.

2012 GRAMMYS: ADELE EMERGES BIGGEST WINNER + FULL LIST OF WINNERS


Six of six! Who does that? Well her name is Adele and she walked away as the biggest winner from the Staples Centre where the 54thGrammy Awards was held on Sunday, February 12, 2012.
The 21-year old whose album made the top selling albums in 2011 walked away with the awards for ‘Record of the Year’, ‘Album of the Year’, ‘Song of the Year’, ‘Best Pop Solo Performance’, ‘Best Pop vocal album’ and ‘Best short form music video’.

“This record is inspired by something that is really normal and everyone’s been through it..a rubbish relationship”, the British soul singer said when accepting the final award of the night.
She later performed one of her biggest songs ‘Rolling in the deep’, her first performance after the infamous throat surgery in November. She received a standing ovation.
 It wasn’t all about Adele though as the ceremony also saw a number of performances from awards winners, including the Foo Fighters, Chris Brown and Lady Antebellum.
The death of Whitney Houston however brought a solemn feeling to the awards show especially when R&B singer Jennifer Hudson performed ‘I will Always Love You’ as a tribute to the late singer who died just a day before the awards.
Nigerian afrobeat singer Femi Kuti who was nominated in the Best World Music Album’ for his ‘Africa for Africa’ album lost out for the third time to Malian band Tiinariwen for the album ‘Tassili’. Kuti did not attend the event.
The awards show was hosted by Queensveteran rapper LL Cool J.  Check out the list of winners below…
Record of the Year  - ‘Rolling in the deep’ Adele
Album of the year – ‘21’ Adele
Song of the Year– ‘Rolling in the Deep’ Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth (song writer award)
Best New Artiste:Bon Iver
Best Pop Solo Performance: Adele ‘Someone Like You’
Best Rock Album:Foo Fighters ‘Wasting Light’
Best Pop Duo:Tony Bennett and Amy Winehouse ‘Body and Soul’
Best Pop Vocal Album:Adele ‘21’
Best Rap Album:Kanye West ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’
Best Pop Instrumental Album: Booker T. Jones ‘The Road From Memphis
Best Dance Recording:Skrillex ‘Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites’
Best Dance/Electronica Album: Skrillex ‘Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites’
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album: Tony Bennett & Various Artists ‘Duets II’
Best Rock Performance: Foo Fighters ‘Walk’
Best Hard Rock/Metal performance: Foo Fighters ‘White Limo’
Best Rock Song:Foo Fighters (songwriters) ‘Walk’
Best Alternative Music Album: Bon Iver ‘Bon Iver’
Best R & B Performance: Corinne Bailey Rae ‘Is This Love’
Best Traditional R & B Performance: Cee Lo Green & Melanie Fiona ‘Fool for You’
Best R & B Song: Cee Lo Green, Melanie Hallim, Jack Splash (songwriters) ‘Fool foor you’
Best R & B Album: Chris Brown ‘F.A.M.E’
Best Rap Performance:Jay-Z & Kanye West ‘Otis’
Best Rap/Sung Collaboration: Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi & Fergie ‘All of the Lights’
Best Rap Song:Jeff Bhasker, Stacy Ferguson, Malik Jones, Warren Trotter & Kanye West (song writers) ‘All of the Lights’
Best Country Solo Performance: Taylor Swift ‘Mean’
Best Country Duo/Group Performance: The Civil Wars ‘Barton Hollow’
Best Country Song:Taylor Swift (Songwriter) ‘Mean’
Best Country Album:Lady Antebellum ‘Own The Night’
Best New Age Album:Pat Metheny ‘What’s It All About’
Best Improvised Jazz Solo: Chick Corea ‘500 Miles High’
Best Jazz Vocal Album: Terri Lyne Carrington & Various Artists ‘The Mosaic Project’
Best Jazz Instrumental Album: Corea, Clarke & White ‘Forever’
Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album: Christian McBride Big Band ‘The Good Feeling’
Best Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music Performance: Le’Andria Johnson ‘Jesus’
Best Gospel Song:Kirk Franklin (songwriter) ‘Hello Fear’
Best Contemporary Christian Music Song: Laura Story (songwriter) ‘Blessings’
Best Gospel Album:Kirk Franklin‘Hello Fear’
Best Contemporary Christian Music Album: Chris Tomlin ‘And if Our God is for us…’
Best Latin Pop, Rock, or Urban Album: Mana ‘Drama y Luz’
Best Regional Mexican or Tejano Album: Pepe Aguilar ‘Bicentenario’
Best Banda or Norteno Album: Los Tigres Del Norte ‘Los Tigres Del Norte and Friends’
Best Tropical Latin Album: Cachao ‘The Last Mambo’
Best Americana Album: Levon Helm ‘Ramble at the Ryman’
Best Bluegrass Album: Alison Krauss & Union Station ‘Paper Airplane’
Best Blues Album:Tedeschi Trucks Band ‘Revelator’
Best Folk Album:The Civil Wars ‘Barton Hollow’
Best Regional Roots Music Album: Rebirth Brass Band ‘Rebirth of New Orleans
Best Reggae Album:Stephen Marley ‘Revelation Pt. 1: The Root of Life’
Best World Music Album: Tinariwen ‘Tassili’
Best Children’s Album: Various Artists ‘All About Bullies…Big and Small’
Best Spoken Word Album: Betty White ‘If you Ask Me (and of Course you won’t)
Best Comedy Album:Louis C.K. ‘Hilarious’
Best Musical Theatre Album:  ‘The Book of Mormon’
Best Short Form Music Video: Adele ‘Rolling in the Deep’
Best Long Form Music Video: Foo Fighters ‘Foo Figters: Back and Forth’.

CORONER CONFIRMS DRUGS KILLED WHITNEY HOUSTON


Los Angeles County Coroner officials have confirmed the cause of Whitney Houston’s death.
The singer did not die from drowning as earlier rumoured but as a result of the combination of Xanax and other prescription drugs mixed with alcohol, family sources say.
Law enforcement sources tell TMZ that multiple medicine bottles were found in the Beverly Hills Hotel room where Whitney Houston died.

Among the pills found are ibuprofen (painkiller), Xanax (anti-depressant), Midol (for menstrual cramps), amoxillin (for treating bacterial infections). Houston is said to have been suffering from a sore throat.
Reports say the family was informed by the Coroner officials that there ‘was not enough water in Whitney’s lungs to lead to the conclusion that she drowned’.
‘She may have died before she submerged herself in to the bath tub filled with water’.
Family sources have told TMZ that it was the late singer’s aunt, Mary Jones, who discovered Whitney’s body in the bathtub.
We’re told Coroner’s officials informed the family there was not enough water in Whitney’s lungs to lead to the conclusion that she was drowned.
A toxic report is expected to be released in a matter of weeks. Meanwhile, her body will be flown back to Atlanta today. Houston died on February 12, 2012 at the age of 48.