Whitney Houston's Climbing Notes

Whitney Houston could reach very high notes. She was good and loud with her singing. At first, singing was just basic singing. Not many girls I knew were showing off their voices like Whitney when I was growing up. In the old days, it seemed like everybody was just singing a song without all of the real high notes and strong volume. When Whitney came along, everybody thought they had to sing strong and loud to be a great singer. Everybody was trying to reach the highest note possible. We already had Aretha Franklin and Patti LaBelle as strong singers. They sung strong, but the majority of people I knew did not try to sing like them. There was just something about Whitney. It seemed that she had a greater affect on people and their way of singing. Although Whitney would practice singing with Aretha Franklin's records growing up, she still brought something different and something new. Everybody that was singing a Diana Ross song, for an example, had to wake up and sing differently when they heard Whitney Houston.