Credits and personnel

• Whitney Houston – vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  , vocal arrangement
• Julien Barber – viola
  Viola
  The viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.- Form :The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola's body is between and longer than the body of a full-size violin , with an average...
  
  
• Sandra Billingslea – violin
  Violin
  The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
  
  
• Edie Lehmann Boddicker – background vocals
• Joseph Bongiorno – upright bass
• Alfred Brown – viola
• Carmen Carter – background vocals
• Gordon Chambers – background vocals
• Bernard Davis – drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  
• John R. Dexter – viola
• Earl Dumler – oboe
  Oboe
  The oboe is a double reed musical instrument of the woodwind family. In English, prior to 1770, the instrument was called "hautbois" , "hoboy", or "French hoboy". The spelling "oboe" was adopted into English ca...
  
  
• Barry Eastmond – conductor, keyboard
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
  
• Max Ellen – violin
• Ian Freebairn-Smith – background vocals
• Roger Freeland – background vocals
• Sharlotte Gibson – background vocals
• Sandi Hall – background vocals
• Phil Hamilton – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
  Electric guitar
  An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
  
  
• Reggie Hamilton – bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Ashley Horne – violin
• Gary Houston – background vocals
• Regis Iandiorio – violin
• Paul Jackson Jr. – guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  
• Ronald Jenkins – bass
• Bashiri Johnson – percussion
  Percussion instrument
  A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
  
  
• Olivia Koppell – viola
• Gail Kruvand – upright bass
• Leonid Levin – violin
• Jesse Levy – cello
  Cello
  The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
  
  
• Ezekiel Lewis – background vocals
• Stephen Mackey – background vocals
• Margaret Magill – violin
• Myrna Matthews – background vocals
• Kermit Moore – cello
• Michael Morton – flute
  Flute
  The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
  
  
• Eugene J. Moye – cello
• Dean Parks – guitar
• Carol Pool – violin
• Maxine Roach – viola
• Andy Stein – violin
• Katherine LiVolsi Stern – violin
• Sally Stevens – background vocals
• Marti Sweet – violin
• Gerald Tarack – violin, concert master
• Troy Taylor – bass, drums, keyboard, background vocals
• Shelene Thomas – background vocals
• Carmen Twillie – background vocals
• Mervyn Warren – percussion, piano, conductor, keyboard, electric piano
  Electric piano
  An electric piano is an electric musical instrument.Electric pianos produce sounds mechanically and the sounds are turned into electrical signals by pickups. Unlike a synthesizer, the electric piano is not an electronic instrument, but electro-mechanical. The earliest electric pianos were invented...
  
  , vocals, background vocals
• Oren Waters – background vocals
• John West – background vocals
• Gerald White – background vocals
• Belinda Whitney – violin
• Harry Zaratzian – viola

• Producers: Mervyn Warren
  Mervyn Warren
  Mervyn Edwin Warren is an American film composer, record producer, music conductor, music arranger, lyricist, songwriter, pianist, and vocalist. Warren is a five-time Grammy Award winner and a 10-time Grammy Award nominee...
  
  , Gordon Chambers, Barry Eastmond, Whitney Houston, Troy Taylor
• Engineer: Barry Eastmond, Tom "TK" Kidd, Joseph Magee, Tony Shepperd, Michael White, Frank Wolf
• Mixing: Ray Bardani, Dave Reitzas, Tony Shepperd
• Mastering: David Kutch
• A&R: Joey Arbagey, Michelle George, Matthew Schwartz
• Assistants: Steve Fisher, John Holmes, Jason Locklin, Nick Marshall, Roger Moody, Jeff Moses, Jack Odom, Zack Odom, Alex Reverberi, Marnie Riley, Anthony Ruotolo, Rob Skipworth, Matt Snedecor, Craig "Niteman" Taylor
• Production coordination: Ivy Skoff
• String engineer: Phil Magnotti
• Vocal contractor: Sally Stevens
• Programming: Troy Taylor
• Drum programming: Scott Frankfurt, Mervyn Warren
• Percussion programming: Scott Frankfurt, Mervyn Warren
• Arrangers: Mervyn Warren, Troy Taylor
• Choir arrangements: Mervyn Warren
• String arrangements: Mervyn Warren, Barry Eastmond
• Vocal arrangements: Mervyn Warren, Gordon Chambers, Whitney Houston, Ezekiel Lewis, Troy Taylor
• Creative director: Joe-Mama Nitzberg
• Art direction: Richard Thomas Jennings
• Design: Richard Thomas Jennings
• Photography: Sante d'Orazio
• Make-up: Roxanna Floy
• Stylist: Timothy Snell
• Hair stylist: Ellin La Var

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