R.I.P. Whitney Houston (1963 - 2012)

偶然在上网时读到了惊人的噩耗。


美国知名女歌手惠特尼·休斯顿（Whitney Houston）
逝世于洛杉矶的Beverly Hilton旅馆，
享年48岁。


扭开电视BBC频道，
上头大大地写着：
BREAKING NEWS Whitney Houston Dies Aged 48


这确实是令人震惊的消息。


靠着她纯正的歌喉以及宽广的音域，
她成为80-90年代数一数二的歌手，
唱出了不少知名歌曲，
赢得了不少荣誉、奖项。


她也因着成功打响的知名度，
破除了音乐界对黑人女歌手的屏障。


喜欢听八、九十年代歌曲的我，
自然喜爱许多休斯顿的歌，
也不时会和志同道合的同学一起高唱几首，
尽管我们总是唱得比她差劲多了。
而扭开我最爱听的收音机电台，
就不难听得见她的歌声震动着收音机扬声器。


在维基百科读到这么一段：

Stephen Holden from The New York Times, in his review of Houston's Radio City Music Hall concert on July 20, 1993, praised her attitude as a singer highly, writing "Whitney Houston is one of the few contemporary pop stars of whom it might be said: the voice suffices. While almost every performer whose albums sell in the millions calls upon an entertainer's bag of tricks, from telling jokes to dancing to circus pyrotechnics, Ms. Houston would rather just stand there and sing." He added the comments on her singing style: "Her [Houston's] stylistic trademarks―shivery melismas that ripple up in the middle of a song, twirling embellishments at the ends of phrases that suggest an almost breathless exhilaration―infuse her interpretations with flashes of musical and emotional lightning."

在休斯顿咽下最后一口气离开的那一刻，
这世界将注定失去一位歌唱奇才。
YouTube 那里读到了一句留言：
天国多了一位完美歌喉来做那里的天使。


她的歌声，
即使离开了她的躯体，
却永远存留在热爱音乐歌曲的众人心中。



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