BET NEWS: BET REMEMBERS WHITNEY HOUSTON (TV)
Summary
A retrospective about the life of popular singer Whitney Houston.
Highlights include: discussions about Houston’s upbringing and early musical endeavors; praise for the “organic” nature of her voice; her successes and forays into the music video scene of the 1980’s; her film career, starting with 1992’s “The Bodyguard” and including the 1995 film “Waiting to Exhale” and 1996’s “The Preacher’s Wife”; the extensive influence of gospel music on her background and musical style; her relationship with her mother Cissy Houston and the many friendships she cultivated in the music industry; her close relationship with her daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown and work with children, such as the young dancers featured in the music video for “I’m Every Woman”; and events leading up to the night of her sudden unexpected death. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: BET
- DATE: November 30, 1999 7:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:40:15
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: 122191
- GENRE: News; Music
- SUBJECT HEADING: African-American Collection - Music; TV - News; TV - Music
- SERIES RUN: BET - TV, 2012
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Monique Chenault … Executive Producer
- Alec Basil Chenault … Executive Producer
- David Booth Gardner … Supervising Producer
- Bill Britt … Producer
- Cynthia R. Harris … Producer
- Nick Ramos … Producer
- Earnest Wishbone … Producer
- Darius Brown … Associate Producer
- Greg Choa … Line Producer
- Christopher Gourlay … Researcher
- Bevy Smith … Host
- MC Lyte … Interviewee, Voice
- Faith Evans … Interviewee
- Donald Lawrence … Interviewee
- Michael Bearden … Interviewee
- Ledisi … Interviewee
- Tisha Campbell-Martin … Interviewee
- Kelly Price … Interviewee
- Rickey Minor … Interviewee
- Kym Whitley … Interviewee
- India Arie … Interviewee
- Kim Burrell … Interviewee
- Bobbi Kristina Brown
- Cissy Houston
- Whitney Houston