Whitney Houston fu 'uno delle ragazze' giorni prima della sua morte

Whitney Houston fu 'uno delle ragazze' giorni prima della sua morte:LOS ANGELES (AP) – Whitney Houston's endure canicule were spent amidst by family, communicable up with old accompany and accomplishing a bit of what she was best accepted for: singing.Her afterlife Saturday afternoon in a Beverly Hills auberge allowance came hours afore she was appointed to arise at an anniversary pre-Grammy affair that alien her to the industry decades ago and was accepted to account the six-time Grammy winner.
The 48-year-old accompanist had been authoritative the circuit in the canicule afore the event, actualization at rehearsals and alms admonition to singers Monica and Brandy. On Thursday, she appeared with adolescent accompanist Kelly Price on date at a Hollywood club, area she sang the aria Yes, Jesus Loves Me to loud cheers.
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With Houston's babe Bobbi in the audience, the women aggregate a continued hug and talked about their lives and families throughout the night, Price recalled Saturday. Houston spent hours continuing on the ancillary of the date at the accident anniversary R&B music again abutting partygoers on the ball floor, she said. "Whitney on Thursday night was one of the girls."
"She was happy," Price said. "She was the Whitney I consistently knew."
Soul accompanist Kenny Lattimore, who co-hosted the R&B event, said Houston seemed to be accepting a acceptable time, authoritative her abrupt afterlife "such a shock for me." He said Houston didn't arise to be accepting any issues.
Houston struggled for years with addiction to cocaine, marijuana and pills and the years of hard-living took a assessment on her once-pristine voice. During call for a pre-Grammy accident Thursday, Houston appeared disheveled, sweated abundantly and her animation smelled of liquor and cigarettes, said a antecedent who was present but not accustomed to allege publicly.Despite added than a decade of problems, including her annulment from Bobby Brown and abundant instances of aberrant behavior, Houston was alive against a abeyant comeback. She had just completed plan on a accommodate of the blur Sparkle, a activity she'd formed to advance for years.
Yet some speculated that she was beneath the access afterwards the Thursday club appearance, if paparazzi airtight photos of Houston abrogation and searching disheveled. Price alleged the rumors "totally untrue."
There was a ancestors feel to the gathering, she said: "Our kids were there."
Price said she and Houston were planning addition reunion, and that she was set to arise at the pre-Grammy bright befuddled by her longtime mentor, Clive Davis, on Saturday night. Davis had accepted that Houston would sing at the party, which went on as planned, he explained, because the diva would accept capital it that way. It took abode in addition allotment of the auberge from area her physique was getting advised by coroner's officials.
"I am alone devastated by the accident of anyone who has meant so abundant to me," Davis said. "She was abounding of life, searching advanced for tonight. She admired music and she admired this night that acclaimed music."
Officials accept appear few data about how Houston was begin or what dead her. A affiliate of her associates begin the accompanist and alerted auberge aegis and paramedics already on website for Davis' gala. They bootless to animate the singer.
In the hours afterwards Houston's death, admirers chose to bethink the accompanist in bigger times, if her aerial articulation alien a new bearing to the Dolly Parton song I Will Love You and propelled the blur The Bodyguard into blockbuster status.
Her songs and albums bound became top-sellers on iTunes, and admirers and celebrities akin aggregate commendations and accounts of ad-lib memorials on the amusing networking website Twitter. Her afterlife on the eve of the Grammy awards has already prompted changes to the advertisement Sunday, with Jennifer Hudson appointed to accomplish a accolade during the show.
Price said her acquaintance would wish to be remembered as God-fearing and a acceptable mother, rather than artlessly a singer. She said she and Houston generally discussed parenting and issues different to their agreeable careers.
She recalled her endure night with Houston, the words they aggregate afore Houston delivered what would be her final performance.
"I never anytime absurd I'd be talking about her because she's not here," Price said.