living she was the first female artist to debut #1
on Billboard Top 200, received over 400 awards,
sold over 200 million records worldwide and is on
the shortlist of the greatest singing voices ever
recorded. She continues that dominance with a
pre-Grammy tribute planned, being immortalized
in wax and having the most popular love song.
She is having the best week ever.
On February 7, Harris Interactive survey's poll on
American's favorite love songs resulted in
Whitney Houston's monumental classic "I Will
Always Love You" being voted #1. The 1992
cultural smash hit from the soundtrack fro the
movie The Bodyguard scored 38% of votes among
adults and was the top pick of all widowed,
divorced or separated Americans polled.
Houston's cover of country legend Dolly Parton's
1974 song beat out other notable love songs such
as Aerosmith's "Dont Want to Miss A Thing", Bee
Gees' "How Deep Is Your Love" and even Marvin
Gaye's "Let's Get It On".
Yesterday (February 8th), Madame Tussauds New
York showcased four life-like wax statues of the
late singer. Each will be installed in four Madam
Tussaud locations: Washington, Las Vegas, Los
Angeles and New York.
The Washington D.C. figure will be of Houston
performing the national anthem at the 1991
Super Bowl; Las Vegas will showcase Houston
from her 1988 music video for "I Wanna Dance
with Somebody (Who Loves Me)"; the wax figure
for Los Angeles will be of her from The Bodyguard;
and New York gets the wax figure modeled off a
2009 photo shoot.
Tonight (February 9), longtime friend and mentor
of Whitney Houston, Clive Davis is planning a
tribute to Houston at his annual pre-Grammy
party.
"(I am) going to do something to remind
everybody that her talent lived among us and in
so many people," the iconic music mogul told
People.com "It's a different kind of opening. The
opening has never been done before, with the
kind of music that's unprecedented." There are no
details yet on who is set to be apart of the tribute.
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