Alicia Keys pays tribute to her mentor Whitney Houston

Romar Fernando

November 12, 2020

• Alicia Keys has paid a heartwarming tribute to her mentor, the late Whitney Houston, on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, November 7, Saturday.

  “I was still in awe of this crazy world I was newly welcomed into, and she marched right up to me, and she said, ‘You are gonna write a song for me,” Keys recalled while describing how Houston touched her life and career.

  “I couldn’t believe it! Had the greatest voice of all time just demanded that of little ole me? I was shocked, and completely overjoyed, and slightly scared,” she added.

  “We all know what a miraculous singer Whitney was, perhaps the greatest voice of our time. We all know how her unprecedented success brought black women into the absolute highest reaches of the music industry’s pantheon. We all know that her music will live forever. That music, that everlasting voice, is her final, generous gift to us.” Keys concluded.

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