Whitney Houston – I Didn’t Know My Own Strength (Peter Rauhofer Club Remix) Lyrics
Whitney Houston – I Didn’t Know My Own Strength (Peter Rauhofer Club Remix) Lyrics
Whitney Houston - I Didn't Know My Own Strength (Peter Rauhofer Club Remix) Lyrics
Lyrics:
Lost touch with my soul
I had no where to turn
I had no where to go
Lost sight of my dream,
Thought it would be the end of me
I thought I’d never make it through
I had no hope to hold on to,
I thought I would break
I didn’t know my own strength
And I crashed down, and I tumbled
But I did not crumble
There were so many times I
Wondered how I’d get through the night I
Thought took all I could take
I picked myself back up, I hold my head up high
I didn’t know my own strength
Found hope in my heart,
I found the light to life
My way out of the dark
Found all that I need
Here inside of me
I thought I’d never find my way
I thought I’d never lift that weight
I thought I would break
I didn’t know my own strength
And I crashed down, and I tumbled
But I did not crumble
I got through all the pain
I didn’t know my own strength
There were so many times I
Wondered how I’d get through the night I
Thought took all I could take
I picked myself back up, hold my head up high
I didn’t know my own strength
Important Links:
Whitney Houston (1963 – 2012): Website | Facebook | MySpace | YouTube | @RealWhitney | iTunes
Peter Rauhofer: Website | Facebook | MySpace | @PeterRauhofer | tumblr. | Beatport | iTunes
More Info. On Artists:
Whitney Houston (1963 – 2012):Whitney Elizabeth Houston was born into a musical family on 9 August 1963, in Newark, New Jersey, the daughter of gospel star Cissy Houston, cousin of singing star Dionne Warwick and goddaughter of soul legend Aretha Franklin.
She began singing in the choir at her church, The New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, as a young child and by the age of 15 was singing backing vocals professionally with her mother on Chaka Khan’s 1978 hit, ‘I’m Every Woman’. She went on to provide backing vocals for Lou Rawls, Jermaine Jackson and her own mother and worked briefly as a model, appearing on the cover of ‘Seventeen’ magazine in 1981.
She began working as a featured vocalist for the New York-based funk band Material and it was the quality of her vocal work with them that attracted the attention of the major record labels, including Arista with whom she signed in 1983 and where she stayed for the rest of her career.
Her debut album, ‘Whitney Houston’, was released in 1985 and became the biggest-selling album by a debut artist. Several hit singles, including ‘Saving All My Love For You’, ‘How Will I Know’, ‘You Give Good Love’, and ‘The Greatest Love of All’, were released from the album, setting her up for a Beatles-beating seven consecutive US number ones. The album itself sold 3 million copies in its first year in the US and went on to sell 25 million worldwide, winning her the first of her six Grammies.
The 1987 follow-up album, ‘Whitney’, which included the hits ‘Where Do Broken Hearts Go’ and ‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody’, built on her success but it was the 1992 film The Bodyguard (1992) that sealed her place as one of the best-selling artists of all time. While the movie itself and her performance in it were not highly praised, the soundtrack album and her cover of the Dolly Parton song ‘I Will Always Love You’ topped the singles and albums charts for months and sold 44 million copies around the world.
That same year she married ex-New Edition singer Bobby Brown with whom she had her only child, their daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown in March 1993. It was about this time that her much documented drug use began and by 1996 she was a daily user.
Her 1998 album, ‘My Love Is Your Love’ was well reviewed but the drug abuse began to affect her reputation and press reports at the time said that she was becoming difficult to work with, if she turned up at all. She was dropped from a performance at The 72nd Annual Academy Awards(2000) (TV) because she was “out of it” at rehearsals. Her weight fluctuated wildly – she was so thin at a ‘Michael Jackson’ tribute in 2001 that rumors circulated the next day that she had died – and her voice began to fail her. She was twice admitted to rehab and declared herself drug-free in 2010 but returned to rehab in May 2011.
Her 2009 comeback album ‘I Look To You’ was positively received and sold well, but promotional performances were still marred by her weakened voice. Her final acting performance was in Sparkle (2012) (a remake of the 1976 movie, Sparkle (1976)), released after her death.
She was found dead in a Beverly Hills hotel room on 11 February 2012.
Peter Rauhofer:
When it comes to achievements within the worldwide dance music scene, Peter Rauhofer has few equals. A lauded producer, remixer, DJ and label owner, he has spent the last twenty years establishing himself as a force to be reckoned with in an industry where many merely come and go. Thanks to his Midas touch in all departments he currently represents a solid part of the city’s electronic establishment and has been recognized by the global electronic cognoscenti as a true heavyweight in his various fields. After all, who else can say they’ve remixed everyone from Madonna to Yoko Ono, enjoyed a multitude of massive club and chart hits, run a world famous record label, hosted one of New York City’s most thrilling club nights AND won a prestigious Grammy award for their studio talents?
Such success is perhaps even more impressive given that Peter was born and raised in Vienna, Austria at a time when the music industry there was severely restricted and musical innovation and entrepreneurship rare. But although the main musical legacy of his country had been classical (Strauss) and mainstream pop (Falco), an underground dance scene did emerge in the early eighties. When it arrived, Peter was ready and waiting for it. “I used to listen to records on radio Luxembourg, record the music onto cassettes and drive my friends crazy with them” he recalls with a laugh. “I became a kind of informant for friends and record shops who wanted to know more about the 70’s pop, rock and disco music that I was listening to. At the time it was very hard to get access to any alternative music so I had to be really enthusiastic to keep it going.”
His efforts were duly rewarded when one day a record store near his school offered him a job. Not long after he began working for premier Austrian imprint Gig records. Through the store he started to get turned on to the sound of the early house and techno records coming in from Chicago and Detroit. He began to DJ at Vienna’s only real underground club U4, playing his underground sounds to “a mix of punks, mods, poppers and all sorts smoking joints…it was dirty, underground and fucked up, but it was stylish too.”
Whitney Houston – I Didn’t Know My Own Strength (Peter Rauhofer Club Remix) Lyrics
