Whitney HOUSTON

You could hear it a few blocks away. A crowd of hundreds softly singing “I Will Always Love You” in unison. They sang as they walked through the streets of Leimert Park in Los Angeles, tears slipping down their faces and candles held in both hands. Many wore T-shirts emblazoned with the face of the woman who had just lost her life. At intersections, pop-up memorials were filled with teddy bears, red roses and framed posters all lit by hundreds of candles.

Whitney Houston was once described as having the voice of God, a voice too great to simply be an angel’s. And just days after her shocking death at only 48 years of age on February 11, 2012, that vigil, one of many around the world, signified the immense reach of her incredible voice. In the crowd, there were children as young as three and women as old as 80, singing her hits and emulating her dance moves, unified in the knowledge that her death