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The Night the Music Stopped, a mother's story of tears, joy, and her greatest love of all—

Remembering Whitney   On the eve of the 2012 Grammy Awards, the world lost one of the most beautiful voices and an extraordinarily beautiful and charitable woman, her name was Whitney. She was unquestionably one of the most remarkable and powerful voices in all of music, who had been silenced forever. Whitney had long ago won the hearts of America, possessing such beauty, grace and talent as the Guinness World Records cited her as the most awarded female act of all time. It has been a busy year for Whitney Houston's family, over the weeks and months that has followed, family, friends, and fans alike tried to understand how such a magnificent talent and beautiful soul could have been taken so early and so unexpectedly. Her sudden death left behind not only a legacy of brilliance, but also painful questions with no easy answers. Now, for the first time, the beloved superstar's mother, Cissy Houston—a gospel legend in her own right—relates the full, astonishing scope of the po...

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