Celine Dion, Jennifer Hudson and Usher will be among the performers paying tribute to Whitney Houston, who died at 48 on Feb. 11, in an hourlong homage, to be televised by CBS on Nov. 16.
The show, “We Will Always Love You: A Grammy Salute to Whitney Houston,†will offer an overview of Ms. Houston's career, which spanned more than two decades during which she sold a reported 170 million recordings and videos, and won six Grammys and two Emmys. Included will be footage of several of her most memorable performances, as well as previously unseen concert footage, interviews and reminiscences by other musicians about Ms. Houston's work.
But some of the show's likely centerpieces will be new perform ances of songs associated with Ms. Houston, by Ms. Dion, Ms. Hudson, Usher and other artists, which will be recorded at a concert at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles on Oct. 11.
A compilation of 18 of Ms. Houston's hits, named, like the television tribute, for the most famous of them, “I Will Always Love You â€" The Best of Whitney Houston,†will be released by RCA on Nov. 13. It will include two previously unreleased recordings: “Never Give Up†and the duet version of “I Look To You†with R. Kelly that was recently released on iTunes.
No comments:
Post a Comment