"Whitney was so abounding of life. She was so searching advanced to tonight," he told those aggregate Saturday night at his anniversary pre-Grammy gala, which she was due to appear (although she was not appointed to perform, he said, as ahead reported). "She admired music and admired this night that acclaimed music," he connected of the backward singer, whose afterlife is currently beneath investigation. "Whitney would accept asked that the music go on. And her ancestors said the appearance should go on." With "a actual abundant heart," Davis aswell asked affair goers to accompany him in a moment of silence.
"Now ladies and gentlemen," he said after, "let the music begin."
As the affair started, Houston's physique was still in the Beverly Hilton hotel, and will reportedly be removed soon.
First to yield the stage: Tony Bennett, who sang "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?"
"First Michael Jackson, again Amy Winehouse and now Whitney," he said afore advocating that the government legalizes drugs.
Bennett was followed by Diana Krall. Again it was Diddy who approved to advance the accident from black to celebratory. "Whenever you saw Whitney, she hit you with that admirable smile," he said. "If we absolutely accept in God, again we should bless the activity of Whitney Houston tonight."
When Alicia Keys performed, she committed allotment of "No One" to Houston.
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