Sunday, 2/12/12

by musicclipoftheday

 passings

Whitney Houston, singer, August 9, 1963-February 11, 2012

What takes your breath away isn’t the way she pulls out all the stops—lots of singers do that. It’s how she pulls back (2:00-2:35, 3:00-3:20, etc.).

“A Quiet Place,” TV show (with mother Cissy Houston looking on), 1980s

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As a girl she sang at her family’s church.

New Hope Baptist Church, Newark, New Jersey, 1970s

(First clip originally posted 7/25/10, second 1/18/12.)