Whitney Houston’s vocal coach Gary Catona, who began working with the singer in 2005, recently spoke out about the singer’s tragic passing. In an interview Catona said that Houston was extremely unhappy with the quality of her voice.
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He said, ”She was horrified by it. When someone is a singer at that level, their voice is so much of who the person is. She identified with her voice. It was not possible for Whitney to be affected very deeply, psychologically and emotionally, by the fact she couldn’t sing.”
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The coach continued, ”As her voice started returning, lo and behold, her personality began changing, just as I predicted. She became more confident, she became who she really was – funny, charming, an intelligent person. Her self-esteem began rising. But what would happen was that I would work with her, and she’d get her voice back to some extent, and then she’d take off. She’d try to sing here, or she’d try to sing there. Rather than getting her voice back completely, which would have secured her legacy, she got caught up in her lifestyle again and she began practicing the habits which were not beneficial to her voice.”
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We don’t want to speculate on what may or may not have caused Houston’s state of mind before her passing, but it’s interesting to hear the perspective of her former vocal coach.
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