How Whitney Houston’s Super Bowl National Anthem Has Endured

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🗓️ 10 February 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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It has been ten years since Whitney Houston died on February 11, 2012. The link between the musical icon and sports is specific and indelible, through her iconic rendition of the national anthem at Super Bowl XXV. While her performance was breathtaking, much of what made it truly special, and the events surrounding it, have been overlooked. E:60’s Jeremy Schaap relives a classic Super Bowl memory, and why Whitney’s high notes from that night continue to echo a decade after her passing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So Jeremy Schap, what are you here to tell us about today?
0:03.9	So recently, one of our E60 crews was out in Los Angeles at the home of a famous musical director, producer, Ricky Minor.
0:17.5	We bought the house and had no furniture.
0:19.5	So the first thing we did was just put pictures up everywhere.
0:25.3	He was showing the crew around the house, all these pictures of all the legends.
0:29.4	He's worked with everybody the last 30, 40 years.
0:33.0	He's worked with some of the biggest names in music.
0:35.9	Tina Turner, I worked with her and Stevie Wonder, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong.
0:45.0	He comes to one photo in particular.
0:50.3	This photo was Whitney in 1991, 31 years ago.
0:58.9	It's a picture that represents in many ways the apex of his career,
1:06.2	but it's also in some ways the apex of Whitney Houston's career as well.
1:17.7	We just didn't know what was about to take place.
1:21.7	She was shaking as she was going out.
1:27.8	The whole country is watching, and the world is watching.
1:32.9	Seeing her and hearing her sing like it was yesterday.
1:50.4	So Friday, February 11th, is the 10th anniversary of the death of Whitney Houston.
2:01.3	There were so many giant moments in her career, but that picture of her standing on the field that night at the Super Bowl in Tampa maybe is the most vivid of them all.
2:08.8	And it's about her performance, of course, but it's about the context, the backdrop.
2:14.9	And what was happening at that moment half a world away.
2:20.0	The hoopla that traditionally surrounds the Super Bowl has been dampened this year by the dramatic
2:25.0	events unfolding in the Persian Gulf.
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