EBONY Exclusive: Whitney Opens Up About Daughter & Future Plans After a self-imposed six-year hiatus, the fierce and incredibly talented Whitney Houston is taking the music industry by storm with her highly anticipated comeback and new CD, I Look To You. Ebony sat down with the multiplatinum-selling star at New York City’s Jazz at Lincoln Center to find out first-hand what this journey has been like for the songstress. “I shed a lot of stuff, a lot of unnecessary weight in the last three or four years. I left a lot of old luggage behind, and when I did, the blessings just started pouring on me, and the light in my spirit started to lift again,” she said.