Remembering Singing Superstar Whitney Houston
16 February 2012
CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English.
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I’m Christopher Cruise. Today on our show we remember the life and music of singing superstar Whitney Houston…
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Whitney Houston Remembered
CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: Saturday, hundreds of people will gather in Newark, New Jersey, for the funeral of Whitney Houston. The forty-eight year old performer died a week earlier at a hotel in California. June Simms looks back at the life of the singer, actress, and mother.
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JUNE SIMMS: That is Whitney Houston performing the song, “I’m Every Woman.” And that is what many who loved the singer say: Whitney was every woman. People in her hometown of Newark say she never forgot where she came from. Her close friend and gospel singer Marvin Winans recently said that below the surface Whitney Houston was still the same little girl from New Jersey.
A childhood friend of the star, Gregory Whittle, remembers growing up with her.
GREGORY WHITE: “A lot of time in the basement you could hear her singing. Singing in the back by the pool. She had a gift. It was strictly from God.”
Marvin Winans is to speak at the funeral. It will be held at the New Hope Baptist Church. Whitney Houston attended that church while growing up. It was also the first place she sang publicly. She was a member of the church choir.
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