Whitney Houston anniversary to be marked with TV Grammy special

An hour-long special entitled The Grammys Will Go On: A Death in the Family to air before the 2013 Grammy Awards.

Grammy organisers plan to mark the first anniversary of the sudden death of Whitney Houston with a behind-the-scenes TV show on how they scrambled to honour the singer just 24 hours after she died. The Recording Academy said on Thursday that the hour-long special entitled The Grammys Will Go On: A Death in the Family will air February 9, a day before the 2013 Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles.

Houston, who sold hundreds of millions of records and scored mega hits like, I Will Always Love You and I Wanna Dance with Somebody, drowned in a bathtub at a Beverly Hills hotel room on February 11 2012 — the eve of last year’s Grammy Awards show.

Houston’s unexpected death at age 48 cast a shadow over the event, which quickly changed its program to pay homage to the soaring voice that had dominated the Grammys in decades past. Singer and actor Jennifer Hudson performed a medley of Houston’s hits at last year’s Grammys, and rapper and host LL Cool J opened the show with a prayer. 

Published in The Express Tribune, February 3^rd, 2013.

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