Search does not find certain songs/artists

Hello everybody,
(iTunes 11.0.1 / 10.8.2).
When I search for certain artist, iTunes search will not show them. Yesterday I searched for "Whitney" and nothing was found. But I have 12 songs from Whitney Houston. There are many other artist that will not be found. A lot of the albums are compilations.

Spotlight does have this problem, intermittently. A potential fix is possible by going to Settings > General > Spotlight Search. Uncheck all options, and perform a hard reset on the device (holding down home and power buttons at the same time until you see the Apple logo). Once it starts back up, go back to Spotlight Search, and turn everything (or the certain ones you want) back on. Then perform another hard reset.
If that doesn't work, try Reset All Settings in Settings > General > Reset.

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