“The Star-Spangled Banner” is known to be one of the most challenging songs for a performer to belt, but then there was Whitney Houston. In 1991, the then 27-year-old vocalist set the gold standard with her rendition at SuperBowl 25. We look back here:
. He also replaced Kevin Eubanks as bandleader on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” in 2010, and worked as the musical director for nine seasons on “American Idol.” Despite all those esteemed credits, what the Emmy winner is most widely known for is his working relationship with Houston.At the time of the national anthem, Minor said “Whitney was in a very creative place, a very open place.”
“Change is one of the most constant things that happens, yet we resist something that is foreign to us,” Minor said. “This was done the same exact way. Every orchestra in the U.S. knows how to play it by heart, they need no music because it's the same arrangement that's played all over. We were crying to hear a different interpretation of it, yet it is fear, fear of the unknown, fear of what if they don’t like it? It’s easier to stay with the status quo.
With some convincing, Minor ended up urging the executives who questioned the new arrangement to let them do what they wanted to do.Houston listened to the track once, maybe twice, before recording something that is known as a pre-record a few weeks before the game, a requirement of large-scale events in case a singer gets sick.
“Truth is always the right answer,” Minor said. “I never shy away from someone questioning anything that was done, or how it was done. I mean, the truth is the right thing. Could I have said that it was live-live? Yes, but then when do you stop trying to gloss something over? It is what it is. And there's no doubt that Whitney sang it. So my answer to that, my response to that immediately was, ‘Yes, she sang live. But we used the track for the audio.
What followed her Super Bowl performance was a massive outpouring of love that continued to mount. So much so that three days later,
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