WHY DID WHITNEY HOUSTON DIE? (1)

"First he gave his evaluation of the young Whitney at the onset of her career: “She started out in the Choir and her first solo performance was ‘Guide Me O Thou Jehova’ Whitney was one of the few entertainers who got a record deal, because of her true talent and not because of connections and affiliations that she had. She paved the way, with her voice and image, for many diva’s that would come after her…”

Barring any last minute change of plans, by the time you read this, Whitney Houston would have been laid to rest, at Fairview Cemetery in Westfield, New Jersey.

The home going services would have held at New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, a venue, which one reporter has described as “a much smaller, more intimate setting than the concert halls and arenas Houston packed during her heyday” Yet it would have been a befitting last curtain call for the legendary singer who was found dead in the bathtub of her Beverly Hilton suite, a week earlier, some hours before she was billed to attend a pre-Grammys bash at the same hotel.

Yes, it would have been a relatively small event for the 48-year-old mother of one daughter, Bobbi Christina Brown, 18, but there would be no room for small fries. Each of the 1,500 seats would have had a celebrity in it!

Among those you would have sighted at the event, as you watched on a variety of television stations or via live streams on the worldwide web, would be megastars like Chaka Khan, a close friend of Whitney and Bebe & CeCe Winans of the famous Winans music family, who have been very close family friends of the Houstons.

Conspicuous, almost certainly would be the Rev Jesse Jackson, another close family friend and Bishop T.D. Jakes, who was listed with Whitney as producers of “Sparkles”, her last film scheduled for release this summer.

If you paid attention, you would also have seen songwriter Diane Warren, pop singer Darlene Love, producer Antonio Reid, who produced many of Houston's songs   Ray J, a hip-hop artist whom Houston dated on and off after her divorce from husband Bobby Brown. Singer and songwriter, Valerie Simpson of the famous Ashford & Simpson duo would also have joined in paying her last respect to the departed singer of whom she told the media; “She was like family…somebody who I watched from the time she was young."

Taking her place in the thick of it all would have been Houston's cousin, singer Dionne Warwick, and then of course there would have been Whitney’s godmother, no less a person than Aretha Franklin, who would have etched her sorrow on the souls of all with a song.

And the eulogy would have been powerfully delivered by another very close friend of the Houston Family, Gospel singer and pastor Marvin L. Winans. He, it was who, officiated at Whitney’s marriage to R&B singer Bobby Brown in 1992, a marriage many now see as contributory to the decline and fall of her singing career.

Yes, yesterday the celebrities joined the family to celebrate one of their own, without a parade as Pastor Winans expressed it to CNN’s Andy Cooper. True, for the family, “it was this is my daughter, this is my sister, this is my mother, this is my friend and we want to do this with dignity."  But even as Whitney lay dead, irreversibly, the questions remain, un-interred with her body. Why did she have to die at a mere 48? Why did her life take a sudden dive for the worse right at the peak of her career? Why did she become associated with crack, cocaine and prescription drugs, such that such that all speculations about her death hover around it and only the outcome of toxicology tests still weeks away can dispel it?

Two of the avalanche of writings about Whitney’s life and times, her place in the entertainment industry and her life as a Christian caught my attention and led me to this exercise.

First was a February 15 online piece titled “Whitney Houston’s Death and the Secret-Society Called the Music Industry,” by one A J Ramsey. The essence of the article was that Whitney was a victim of witchcraft. Let’s read a few excerpts. First he gave his evaluation of the young Whitney at the onset of her career: “She started out in the Choir and her first solo performance was ‘Guide Me O Thou Jehova’ Whitney was one of the few entertainers who got a record deal, because of her true talent and not because of connections and affiliations that she had. She paved the way, with her voice and image, for many diva’s that would come after her…”

To explain how the young squeaky clean Jehova’s guidance seeking Whitney began her transition to the woman she was when she died, Ramsey quoted John Todd, whom he described as “a so called ex-member of the Illuminati, who was a music executive in the 70’s”. He quoted Todd as stating publicly that “every musician and entertainer in the music industry and Hollywood, has to be a initiated wizard or witch before they are offered a recording contract”. This, Ramsey explained “is what some writers have called the selling of the soul or light to Lucifer”.  Continuing, Ramsey wrote; “In his speeches John Todd further demonstrates that after the record is cut and the master is finished, it is then given to a coven of witches and wizards who conjure up a demon. Once the demon is conjured the witches and wizards ask the entity to attach itself to every copy or duplicate that is sold to the public, which guarantees the success of the record and also takes control of the listener.”  

Ramsey then declared: “The point I am making above is that the music industry is a cult and once one gets a record deal they are now an initiate and are a part of the cult for life. Whitney Houston was no exception to this rule and she took the oath back in the 70’s. Once the oath is pledged you become the property of the record labels and the machines and you can NEVER retire. The only way out of the game is death…” (CONTINUES)