We Will Always Love You: A Grammy® Salute to Whitney Houston (2012)

One thing I did know is that artists, artists, were people, you know, they were human beings, and they cried, and they heard, and they felt, and they wanted, and they needed, you know, I knew all that, but it was just the emotion, you know? to look at it and say yes, I want to sing now I know what I want to do she said oh she said so you want to be in show business that confused me I said well isn't that the same thing? But what I'm saying she said no, no, no, being a singer is one thing, being a singer in show business is another and the Grammy is for Whitney, so it's easy ACH for my mommy and my daddy, the two most important people in my life and we

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How will I know? But when you are you, I will be free, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the winner of the Academy Award. Barry, thank you, welcome everyone to We Will Always Love You, a Grammy shout out to Whitney Houston. Tonight we celebrate with great love a beautiful talented woman who may be gone but whose voice she will live on forever. Whitney personifies the term icon that inspired a generation of girls and women to believe in their own dream and know that they had within them the greatest gift of all. Well, I was one of those girls who later became a woman who never, ever stopped loving Whitney Houston.

Some of Whitney's greatest triumphs came right here. on this Grammy stage, so it's only fitting that tonight the Recording Academy brings together some of the world's greatest artists to

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love, the unforgettable Whitney Houston, tonight via some interviews you've never seen before and won't even hear. from Whitney herself and we will be joined by some of the countless Grammy greats who love and were also influenced by Whitney. Our first performer tonight has always said that Whitney was her hero and this February at the Grammys, just hours after we lost Whitney, she paid her respects to her idol in a way that none of us will ever forget, so Tonight we are so honored that you are here to perform some of the dynamic hits that Whitney made the entire world sing and dance to with someone, ladies and gentlemen, Grammy. and Academy Award winner Miss Jennifer Hudson, let's celebrate whenever you want, whatever you need, whatever you've done baby, I do it naturally 'cause I'm everything, it's all in me, it's all in me, come on Get up, Cate, now, here we go, here we go.

That's right, I'm the one singing here, come on, put your hands, say it with me if I want to dance, I want to build a baby body, I want to dance a little. Please welcome Grammy Award winner Britney Spears, thank you very much when she was a little girl who dreamed of being a star one day. She sang with my three favorite artists day and night in my living room. It bothered my brother and anyone who listened to my little covers of Madonna songs Janet Jackson and last but not least. not least, the great Whitney Houston.

Then when I was 15, I got my big break. I was in New York City auditioning to try to get my first record deal. I sang Whitney. I have nothing for the executives at Drive Records and they hired me, so I guess. You could say that Whitney has always been there for me when I needed her through her work. Whitney Houston will always be there for all of us, so I wanted to be here tonight to thank this beautiful talented woman who inspired so many others. around the world to try your hand at singing along to SEL Dion Usher's upcoming performances and more of Whitney's best TV moment, as we will always love you.

Greetings Grammy to Whitney Houston continue only CBS I think of home I think of an overflowing place Desire and what do you look for good you look for originality I really feel that little tingle you know that perval may be a cliché but you feel that tingle up and down your spine and you know you're in the presence of someone special and and uh, and that's what I felt when you took me to see Whitney Houston. I remember when Clive and I did the M Griffin and Clive Show. I remember standing next to him in the wings waiting to continue.

I was very nervous on my M Griffin debut. Show and here is this legend talking about me, but if the magician passes to someone who is 19 years old, who is elegant, sensual, innocent, who has an incredible variety of talents but guts and soul at the same time, it will be Whitney Houston in my opinion so when he started talking about the person he was talking about I turned to the person next to me I said if he was talking about me and uh I said yes he is talking about you she is a beautiful girl and her poise doesn't hurt uh, but it's her natural charm, I mean, you either have it or you don't, she's got it, she's got it right, you listen to her, everything that could happen, kind of happens, you know, my band was very slow in tempo. and I never forget that my mother comes backstage and she takes control of the band and starts leading the band, she feels me, she's a singer, so she feels me and she knows I'm struggling with it and she starts doing the band and It's the most hysterical thing you'll ever want to see my mom in the background doing the band like that and me singing and it's kind of cute, but wow, what a moment in history, I'll never forget I'll never forget that.

One, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the man who discovered Mr. Davis at Whitney's funeral. I said that you expect a voice like that all your life, a face like that, a presence like that all your life and when a person embodies it all, it takes your breath away. And that's how I felt in 1983 when I first saw Whitney when she was 19 and singing at her mother's Sissy act at a club called Sweet Waters. Her voice shattered me and we instantly connected with each other for the rest of her life. First Whitney's albums broke every record in the book and then she did exactly the same with every soundtrack to her three films.

Whitney's voice was like no other and tonight's beautiful celebration by the Recording Academy touches me very deeply. Surely she wasn't here long enough, but in her time Whitney and her music truly gave us the greatest love of all, thank you very much, the found love of everyone within the please welcome gr di they say that the things that inspire us stay with us for longer, but it seems like yesterday. I first heard that remarkable voice and saw that beautiful young woman only five years older than me sing these words, although I have to resist being last on your list, but no one else will.

I'm saving my love for you, there were so many. songs after that and so many things about this woman that inspired me that the idea of ​​her not being here to give us so much more is very sad. I can't sing it like you, Whitney, but if I can, to celebrate everything you did for me and so many other artists in setting the bar so high, I'd like to sing one of my favorite Whitney songs, a song that says so much about you as well as all of us. I think children are a good future for them. and let Le way show them all the beauty they have inside, give it to us and everyone.

I have never found anyone who fills me with ice and what they take away from me because the great Love of Everyone is happening to me. I found the Greatest Love of All within me. From me, the big one is the and Def CH, that special place you've been dreaming of will take you to one place. Find your strength. Usher's performances, a gospel tribute, and Whitney's biggest Grammy moment are yet to come. We will always love you. Shout out Grammy to Whitney. Houston continues only CBS. I think that if we as a people, and that means all of us, if we learned to get along and if we accepted our differences and learned from each other, I think we would be much better off if we took our differences as something that is wrong rather than something that can be productive, please welcome a

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tonight let me begin with a statement we will always love to Whitney. she will remain in our lives through the incredible music she left us Whitney Houston won her first Grammy in 1986 and her most recent in 2000 and we are proud to be celebrating her life in our Grammy Museum right now, perhaps Whitney's greatest triumph in The Grammys have arrived.

At the Grammy Awards in 1994, following the phenomenal success of The Bodyguard soundtrack and film, Whitney won three of the four Grammy Awards for which she was nominated, including Album of the Year and Record of the Year, Is Whitney Incredible or What do I personally think Whitney is? The most lasting Grammy moment came that same night, when she opened the show by delivering one of the most powerful and beautiful Grammy performances of all time, ladies and gentlemen, singing I will Always love you as only she could Whitney Houston I will so I'll. go, but know that I will think of you every step of the way, the way, the love, I will always love you, my dears, you are sweet, that's all I carry with me, so goodbye, cry, I know I'm you, you you need and I always.

I love you, we always love you, life treats you kindly and I hope you have everything you dreamed of and I wish you joy and happiness, but above all this I wish you and I will always love you, I will always love you when I made the Stars bangle Banner in Super. Bowl 25, if you were there you could feel the intensity, you know we were in the golf war at that time, it was an intense time for our country, a lot of our daughters and sons were fighting overseas, so in the stadium I could seeing the fear, the hope, the intensity of the prayers going up, you know, and I felt like this is the moment and it was hope, we just needed hope, you know, bringing our babies home, that's what it was about for me, that That's what I felt when I sang. that song and the overwhelming love coming out of the stands was incredible, ladies and gentlemen please welcome actress, singer and star of cbs' Person of Interest, Teraji P Henson at Super Bowl 25 on January 27, 1991 , the New York Giants defeated the Buffalo Bills by one point, but the biggest winner of the entire day might have been the woman who made the national anthem her own Whitney Houston with the United States and later participated in the Gulf War The moving performance of Spangle star Whitney Banner struck a chord Our next performer is a multi-talented seven-time Grammy winner in his own right, he's here tonight to honor Whitney by singing an inspirational ballad she recorded for the soundtrack of The Preacher's Wife She Was nominated for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance at the 40th Annual Grammy Awards.

Ladies and gentlemen here to sing I believe in you and I an artist we can all believe in offers what voice you taught us to dream he taught us to believe I believe in you and I believe we will be in love forever as far as I can see you will always be the one For me, oh yes, you will. I believe in dreams again. I believe that love will never end and like the discoveries of the sea they were because I believe in you and me. I will never leave your side. I will never hurt your pride.

All the chips. you're down, I'll always be around just to be right where you are my love, oh you know, I love you girl, I'll never leave you out, I'll let you in your place, no, you see I believe in you and me, but I would play. He will always be with you forever I believe in here Look oh baby I dream I in you I was because I believe in you and I believe I believe I believe oh I believe in you and in me my mother put me in church my parents said are you going to the church and you are going to learn the word of God and you are going to know your God and you are going to love him and you are going to know how much he loves you and you are going to know it because This will take you through life This will take you through the good, the bad, the hard, the easy, all those times, you know, I never claimed to be perfect, you know, I try to practice good ways because I was raised that way.

I was raised in a Christian home and there were certain standards and certain moral obligations that my parents imposed on us, you know, taking care of others, helping those in need, being there when someone calls you, if you're a friend of giving water to a person. strange to feed someone who's hungry, that's the kind of thing that I consider something that everyone should look at and yeah, and pay attention and practice, do you want to come, call me. there when I say hello I'm CC wiing and I will never forget it I will never forget singing that song with my friend and sister Witney at the Grammy Awards tonight.

I am very happy to be here with the great Yolanda Adams, the two of us. You know how the spirit can move you when you sing, don't you? yolana oh yes Whitney began singing in church at New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, where she became the soloist of the youth gospel choir at age 11, less than a decade later. she was a global superstar and in the end Whitney returned home to New Hope for the last time tonight. Yolanda and I would like to sing this song of friendship for all of you in the loving memory of Whitney and that will end when you are us, I will be you for car on call me I will be there don't be afraid please when I say realize I can see it's hurting you I can feel your pain it's hard to see the sun through the rain I know sometimes it seems like it'll never end but we'll get through it, youwe will help, I will help you, I will be Afra, you can count on me, yes you can, now there is an inside of all of us where our faith begins, love, you find the truth, love is more difficult than it really is. get over it Call me Call me I'll be counting counting counting counting counting I'm so glad I can you know you can and I know I can I know I can stay C can you come with me? 3 2