'Just do it again, first verse a capella': Whitney's music director remembers

'Just do it again, first verse a capella': Whitney's music director remembers

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norman lebrecht

February 15, 2012

Many have wondered how Whitney Houston brought off the national anthem so effortlessly at the 1991 Superbowl, and some malign souls have accused her of all sorts of deceits – lip-synching, post-dubbing, whatever.

Now the truth is out. Her career-long music director, Rickey Minor, talked about her on The Tonight Show with Jan Leno, where he is bandleader.

‘That was one take,’ he swore. Read on here. Listen to the anthem here.

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