In his new book “Didn't We Almost Have It All,' GerrickKennedy reframes Whitney Houston's life and legacy through a lens of compassion, grace and dignity. The book also examines how society and the press mistreated the singer in life and after death.
Singer Whitney Houston accepts the Winner of International - Favorite Artist Award onstage at the 2009 American Music Awards on Nov. 22, 2009, in Los Angeles, California. From the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards to the Super Bowl in 1991, so many Houston performances gave millions of viewers around the world full-body chills.
Kennedy was one of the last people to see Houston before she died in 2012. He was covering a pre-Grammy event for The Los Angeles Times when he ran into Houston at the Beverly Hilton hotel. Two days later, she was found dead in her hotel room, submerged in the bathtub. “We were different people then. We had a different understanding around how we consumed celebrity culture and how we consumed everything about an artist,” Kennedy says.
“Not only is it untrue, but it's allowing you to have this almost distance from the reality of what it must have been for this young Black woman,” he says, and erase her Blackness.Katie Couric, “You’re not Black enough for them … You’re not R&B enough. You’re very pop. The white audience has taken you away from them.”
“We just saw her as this empty vessel who, yes, is a great voice, but it was ultimately destroyed by drug use,” he says. “And so we don't celebrate all she was while also acknowledging all she was not.”
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