Aha Moment: Whitney Houston and Shara Worden
Shara Wordensang Bach in school but at home she listened to WJLB, Detroit’s hip-hop and R&B radio station. That’s how her love of Whitney Houston blossomed. In her junior year of high school, her parents decided to move to Iowa. Wordenwas devastated. She was leaving behind her friends and her first love. But she still had Whitney. “‘I Will Always Love You’ comforted me as we moved,” Worden says.
Now, Worden is the singer and songwriter behind the bandMy Brightest Diamond.
Produced by Mooj Zadie
(Originally aired November 2015)
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