Every little step my story book1/21/2024 ![]() He jumped, after Whitney, according to legend, jumped first. ![]() Being Bobby Brown (both the show and the person) was a platform a diving board on the deep end of the shark infested pool. It was easy to lose himself in sex, drugs, and music to falter as a father, husband, and musician to flounder in the land of Oz, just long enough for the world (and himself) to believe it. BUT NOW THAT LABEL FEELS TOO ONE-DIMENSIONAL. IT WAS FUN - WHEN I WAS YOUNG AND FOOLISH. FOR THE MOST PART, I EMBRACED IT-FOR THIRTY YEARS. ![]() EARLY ON, I CEMENTED MY REPUTATION AS THE "BAD BOY OF R & B." AND IT STUCK. THEY SLAP A LABEL ON YOU, AND THAT'S WHO YOU ARE- THE FACTS BE DAMNED. ![]() His world revolved around extremism, over indulgence, and the therapeutic attempt to conceal pains that clawed at his being. He carried it - that bad boy image - and indeed, after thirty public years of wearing that proverbial and penetrating mask, it became his honest demeanor, bolted in a safe and protected by demons resembling padlocks. The jury is still out, even after reading Every Little Step.īobby built a reputation as a 'bad-boy,' but it limits the shallow depth of a much more complex character. We often wondered if he knew himself or if he was simply a chameleon who changed his colorful facade to meet the moment. His nauseating story played out in the media but never gave us a full image or explanation of the man. Their lives were broadcast as a national or romantic tragedy on the evening news, supermarket tabloids, and sadly, their short-lived reality television show, Being Bobby Brown.Īlready steeped in a methodically, if not intentionally, developed controversy, Bobby Brown became infamously iconic through the dismally painted images he willfully projected: Pop singer, reality star, Whitney Houston's husband, and father. For over a decade Bobby Brown, and ultimately Whitney Houston (as a couple), were headline fodder. In fact, the entire world knew this often sordid, perhaps morbid, story. I questioned whether I'd even read this book, after all, I knew this story. So when a copy of Every Little Step was made available to me, I was excitedly hesitant. I'll admit, I am an incorrigible fan of biographies, but I've discovered that biographies are usually one of two things: profound hits or astronomical misses often filled with so much fluff the story gets lost in loads of overzealous and gregarious bull. And I hope they will feel that I have been as honest and open with them in these pages as I have tried to be my entire life.” I hope my fans and other readers of this book will be entertained by this trip into the crazy, exciting, fascinating world of Bobby Brown. But I was surprised by how therapeutic it was to work on this project, to look at the entire arc of my life and to realize that although there has been considerable pain, I have also been incredibly blessed. On the process of writing this book, Bobby says, “Right after I signed on to write my story, I went through one of the most agonizing traumas I had ever experienced with the death of my daughter. Now, for the first time, the world will be able to hear the truth from the mouth of America’s “bad boy” himself. Raw and powerful, Every Little Step is the story of a man who has been on the top of the mountain and in the depths of the valley and who is now finally ready to talk about his career and family life, from the passion and the excess to his creative inspirations and massive musical success. The marriage between Brown and Houston was perhaps the most closely watched and talked about marriage of the 1990s-a pairing that obsessed the public and the gossip industry. But Brown put his career on hold to be with the woman he loved-American music royalty Whitney Houston. In the late 1980s, the former front man of New Edition had a wildly successful solo career-especially with the launch of Don't Be Cruel-garnering multiple hits on the Billboard top ten list, as well as several Grammy, American Music, and Soul Train awards. In Every Little Step, Brown will for the first time tell the full story of his life and set the record straight, particularly about his relationship with Whitney Houston.īobby Brown has been one of the most compelling American artists of the past thirty years, a magnetic and talented figure who successfully crossed over many musical genres, including R&B and hip hop, as well as the mainstream.
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