{"id":30351,"date":"2012-02-13T07:41:18","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T15:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/?p=30351"},"modified":"2024-05-29T11:14:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T18:14:13","slug":"r-i-p-whitney-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/2012\/r-i-p-whitney-houston\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. 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On Saturday night, one of the commentators on a news channel, I can&#8217;t remember which anymore,&nbsp;poignantly stated&nbsp;that for a singer who had such effortless control over her vocals, she had such little control over her personal life.<\/p>\n<p>During the mid 80s and the 90s, Houston enjoyed an incredible success, which significantly contributed to her overall numbers of 6 Grammy Awards, 30 Billboard Music Awards, and 22 American Music Awards. These are just 58 of the 415 career awards she had won as of 2010.\u00b9<\/p>\n<p>On November 3, 1992, <em>I Will Always Love You<\/em> was released. This remake of a country song originally penned by Dolly Parton, would become one of Whitney Houston&#8217;s signature tunes. The song was recorded for the soundtrack of&nbsp;the movie <em>The Bodyguard,<\/em> starring Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner.<\/p>\n<p><em>I Will Always Love You<\/em> would go on to win Houston a boatload of awards, including Record of the Year, and Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female, at the 1994 Grammy Awards.\u00b2 The song features a sax solo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkwhalum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kirk Whalum<\/a>.&nbsp; Whalum did a lot of work with Houston over the years. He also toured&nbsp;with her as an opening act.\u00b3<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You (Official 4K Video)\" width=\"1174\" height=\"881\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3JWTaaS7LdU?start=126&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>_________________________________________________<\/p>\n<h6>\u00b9 Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whitney_Houston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia Page on Whitney Houston<\/a><\/h6>\n<h6>\u00b2 Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/I_Will_Always_Love_You_(Whitney_Houston_version)#Whitney_Houston_version\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia Page on I Will Always Love You<\/a><\/h6>\n<h6>\u00b3 Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kirk_Whalum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia Page on Kirk Whalum<\/a><\/h6>\n<div style=\"width: 500px; margin: 0px auto; text-align: left; border: 0px solid #25e925; padding: 10px;\">\n<div style=\"float: right; width: 285px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Georgia; font-size: 28px; line-height: 24px; color: #aaff66; text-align: right;\">&#8230;this is just <span style=\"color: #fe4899;\">my <em>blog<\/em>. <\/span><span style=\"color: #66aaff;\"> My <b>\u201creal\u201d <\/b> website is<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bassic-sax.info\">www.bassic-sax.info.<\/a> <span style=\"color: #66aaff;\">If you\u2019re looking for <\/span> <span style=\"color: #fe4899;\"> <strong>sax info<\/strong>,<\/span> you should <span style=\"color: #aaff66;\">check it out too.<\/span><span style=\"color: #fe4899;\">There\u2019s <em>lots<\/em> there! <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unless you&#8217;ve not&nbsp;had the television on this past weekend,&nbsp;read the newspaper, or caught up on the latest news&nbsp;via your favourite online source, by now you&nbsp;will &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[653,114,633,314,184,661,662,26],"class_list":["post-30351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","tag-famous-not-so-famous-sax-players","tag-in-memoriam","tag-musings","tag-pop","tag-saxophone-in-popular-music","tag-styles-of-saxophone-playing","tag-video","tag-youtube"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.5 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Unless you&#039;ve not had the television on this past weekend, read the newspaper, or caught up on the latest news via your favourite online source, by now you will have heard that one of the greatest voices of our generation, has been forever silenced. 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