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May 13, 2013 – On Friday (May 10) a commercial airliner had to make an emergency landing in Kansas City when an agitated/inspired passenger refused to stop belting out Whitney Houston songs, reports Missouri station KCTV. American Airlines flight number 4 was en route to New York City (JFK) from Los Angeles (LAX) when the unidentified woman began her performance. …
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February 1, 2013 – The 55th Annual Grammy Awards airs live on February 10, but the night before the annual ceremony, the Recording Academy will look back at last year's broadcast and its last-minute shuffle to pay tribute to the late Whitney Houston in a new documentary, The Grammys Will Go On: A Death in the Family.Houston died suddenly at the age of 48 on February 11, the day before the 2012 Grammys. …
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November 26, 2012 – The 25th annual Soul Train Awards aired on BET Sunday night (November 25), and potential Oscar hopeful Frank Ocean earned the night's top honor with the Album of the Year award for his Essential channel ORANGE. The other big win belonged to John Legend, who claimed Record of the Year for the Ludacris-featuring "Tonight (Best You Ever Had)," which the singer-songwriter also performed. Beyoncé collected two statues, Best R& …
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November 21, 2012 – Songs by Bob Dylan, Whitney Houston, and AC/DC are among 2013's crop of Grammy Hall of Fame inductees, the Recording Academy announced Wednesday (November 21).A total of 27 new recordings have been added to the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, including Dylan's landmark "The Times They Are A-Changin'," from his 1964 album of the same name; Houston's self-titled 1985 debut, the most recent of all the honorees; and AC/DC's seminal 1980 album …
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September 27, 2012 – Celine Dion, Jennifer Hudson, and Usher are all slated to perform in a Grammy-branded televised tribute to Whitney Houston, set to air on CBS nine months after the iconic R&B singer's death. …
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June 28, 2012 – Joy, not sadness, fills Jordin Sparks' song with the late Whitney Houston, "Celebrate," an R. Kelly-produced dance-pop strutter from the upcoming movie Sparkle. Directed by Marcus Raboy, whose credits stretch back to Naughty By Nature's 1991 "O.P.P.," the video for the song nicely extends the upbeat mood, blending clips from the films with shots of Sparks singing along with actors Derek Luke, Mike Epps, and more. …
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May 22, 2012 – A day after Jordin Sparks paid emotional tribute to Whitney Houston at Sunday's Billboard Music Awards, her collaboration with the late pop virtuoso debuted on Ryan Seacrest's website. "Celebrate," a buoyant dance-pop song written and produced by R. Kelly, is a poignant invitation to move past the tears and embrace the rhythm. …
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May 21, 2012 – The Billboard Music Awards (or BBMAs), which were revived last year after a four-year hiatus, are the real People's Choice Awards — with the exception of the occasional editorial call, winners are selected based on hard data mined from Billboard's charts over a year period. In other words, you bought this music, people, and last night at Las Vegas' MGM Grand, the artists reaped the prizes. …
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April 9, 2012 – The residents of Newark, New Jersey, were saddened by the death of hometown heroine Whitney Houston. …
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March 29, 2012 – First! As predicted, the Appalachialicious Hunger Games soundtrack arrived at No. 1 on Billboard's Top 200, becoming the first film soundtrack to hit the top spot since Michael Jackson's This is It in November 2009. It gets even better, though, because if you get more specific, it's the first No. …
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