About Michael Zager


The teenage Houston sang a solo on disco producer Michael "Let's All Chant" Zager's 1978 track "Life's a Party" and went on to do studio backups for the likes of Chaka Khan and Lou Rawls, while landing Glamour and Seventeen covers as a model. Although the Sweet Inspirations never became a mainstream success in their own right, Cissy's blistering performance on such Zager-produced dance-floor anthems as "Think It Over" earned her a hard-core following of gay men, whom Whitney first encountered during her mom's club dates. "My mother's best, most beautiful, brightest audience was gay men," she recalls. "We used to work at Reno Sweeny [a trendsetting, '70s Manhattan cabaret]. My mother used to pack that club out. I mean the queens would be around the corner! Around the corner in a line, waiting to see Miss Cissy."




About Paul Jabara


Before releasing her career-making full-length debut, Houston sang on an album for the pioneering disco producer/solo artist Paul Jabara, who penned Donna Summer's "Last Dance" and scored a massive club hit with the Weather Girls' now classic gay anthem "It's Raining Men." "I miss him," Whitney says of the singer, who died in 1992 of AIDS. "Gay and could write his ass off. We did Studio 54 together, a whole showcase with me and the Weather Girls. He'd say, 'You gonna be bad as s--- one day. You gonna be so f----in' hot.' That was Paul. And he was right [giggles], may he rest in peace



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