Prince …R.I.P.
First in 2009 it was Michael Jackson, then in 2012 it was Whitney Houston, this year it was David Bowie and now his royalness…Prince! I grew up listening to the Jackson 5 and Michael Jackson, so his passing was hard because it was like feeling your own mortality slipping away from you same thing with Whitney Houston and now Prince. Only david Bowie in this group made it to 60…(69) to be exact. Prince was 57 a year older than I. He is too young to be gone yet he and his rival and peer Michael Jackson dies at age 50 or just 2 months shy of 51 . One thing I will say about David Bowie, Michael Jackson and Prince they were true entertainers and true to themselves and put it all out that there. You never felt cheated when they performed. Prince’s all night jam sessions with his bands were the stuff of legend and it is how in some cases he decided who was going to play with him, if dropped out you didn’t deserve to play with him. To say he was driven was an understatement , to say he was talented another understatement but to call him a sheer genius now you’re getting warm. You either liked him or hated him but you didn’t ignore him. When he changed his name to the symbol , it is apparent he knew what he was doing, even if it at the time seemed weird and down right foolish after all he still was Prince.
It was Prince who introduced us to the group The Time (One of my all time favorite groups)which featured front man Morris Day , which in turn introduced us to super producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis which in turn introduced us to…Janet Jackson. the Janet Jackson what Have you done for me lately, Nasty and Control…all from the tree of his royalness …Prince. It was always a thrill to see what he would do next musically, always ahead of the curve and apologized to no one for being himself good bad or naughty he was …Prince. He will be missed R.I.P.
Bobbi Kristina Brown a sad end to a Young Life
I will be the first to tell to you I don’t know Bobbi Kristina nor her parents Bobby Brown or Whitney Houston. My heart goes out to both the Brown and Houston families though, losing a loved one no matter how tragic is tough. How crazy must it have been for Bobbi Kristina to be the child of Music’s Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston. Whitney Houston had a voice that comes once in a lifetime plain and simple. The expectations for the child of music legends must have been out of this world crazy. It has been said that this young woman was exposed to her parents drug habits and alcohol fuel craziness. Whether that is true or not I am can not say, but I have been around alcoholics growing up, I saw drugs up close, and saw what it can do to you.The tragedy is that Bobbi Kristina died the same erie way like her mother, and with the same cloud of mystery, so the families the Houstons and the Browns will fight over who’s to blame for this tragedy, they will fight as to who now will be entitled to Whitney Houston’s fortune now that Bobbi Kristina would have been the heir to Houston’s fortune. What will be lost in all the fighting is that a young life was lost and a opportunity to uplift a young person beyond the alcohol and drugs that she possibly exposed to was also lost. I say that because one thing I do understand …we make and choose decisions that shape our life , who your parents are you can’t do anything about can’t choose your siblings but you can choose what you drink what you eat and what if any your drug of choice is. That is the lesson here. Choose to live your life better than the hand you feel you are dealt, choose to be better than how you were raised, choose to be more than what is offered, Bobbi Kristina had her life in front of her, and just like that it is gone. So cherish what you have today for tomorrow isn’t promised to anyone.
Bobbi Kristina Brown Like mother like daughter?
So much has been said about the tumultuous lives of both Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston. Some true some maybe not so true, but I can’t help but imagine the toll it has taken on their daughter Bobbi Kristina. It’s one thing to know that your parents are famous entertainers and it is quite another to see their lives up close and personal. To see your parents on stage one minute and then in a drug or alcohol induced stupor is quite another. But to be in a coma herself is quite a story in itself. Now people will compare her to Whitney Houston her mother, not because of any talent she may have but because of the erie way she was found in her home recently, in a tub and was not breathing and did not have a pulse. Here’s hoping that this young woman will pull through and begin the slow process of making choices to put better coping mechanisms in place to deal with life in her world. It has been said that her mother’s death (Whitney Houston) has been hard on Bobbi Kristina, if that is so the way she copes with it will be the key to her future. At 21 her future is unlimited and all in front of her. Again it is about the choices she makes going forward that will show if she is able to rise above the turmoil that has been a part of her life for sometime. Many were quick to blame Bobby Brown for the demise of Whitney Houston, say what you will but Whitney made choices that eventually led to her own demise, and while Bobby brown can be accused of many things, what ever choices going forward Bobbi Kristina makes will be solely on her and her alone.
One Man's Opinion 