Were Prince and Whitney Houston friends?

I have wondered about this for some quite some time, and sadly found very little. I know she attended MANY concerts of his Welcome 2 America tour, not many months before she died. There is even a video of her joining him shortly on stage. It is quite fun to see them together, although a little sad. Prince so well-preserved and healthy, still his voice sounding so good. And Whitney a wreck, even though she was younger than him. There is also another (short) video of Whitney and her daughter Bobbi Kris singing along to ”Take Me with U”.

What else could I dig up? Well, Prince and Mayte sat beside Whitney and her mother in the World Music Awards 1994. Whitney was at her career high after The Bodyguard and Prince seemed to love every bit of her singing ”I will always love you”. Whitney and her mother on the other hand, seemed to laugh at Prince (lip-synced dance) performance of TMBGITW. Don’t know if that was actually the case though, but it kind of looked like it.

Her music has not really stuck with me (just too safe and generic, but she was very good at interpret the stuff she was dealt, that I’ll give her). There are some exceptions, sure, but ultimately I found herself much more interesting than her music (best voice ever though). The most tragic story of any celebrity I’ve heard of. She seemed like she was a very nice and genuine person that didn’t deserve all that happened to her. It’s heartbreaking, truly. But in all honesty, with that terrible childhood it felt far-fetched for her life to end in anything but tragedy. She never even had a chance with all those terrible things happening to her.

Now, with Prince it’s a whole other thing. He’s the best artist of all time for me. It got me thinking, that I really wished he and Whitney had made a song together, or her covering one of his songs. Imagine her doing a song like ”Adore” or ”Sexuality” (now THAT would be a controversial move) or (kind of a curveball) ”Love 2 the 9’s”. I know, it’s far from the safe Whitney we got, but that was simply a persona that her label wanted her to show. All to make some (safe) $.

It’s weird that there are hardly anything on these two giants in the music industry. There is a lot about Prince and MJ, Prince and Madonna, Whitney and MJ, Whitney and Madonna, Madonna and MJ. But Prince and Whitney Houston? Hardly anything, except the Welcome 2 America Tour. Which isn’t a lot.

I know for a fact that both of them loved to play ping-pong. Surely they must have played at some point, right? Hard to believe they didn’t, but I can’t find anything about it, so who knows.

I read at Prince.org that Prince dated/wanted to date Whitney in the late 80’s, but that could be (probably is) a load of bs. Though if I were him at that time, I would’ve probably also tried shooting my shot.

Anybody who sit on any information about these two? Would love to know!