NEW YORK — A CD/DVD featuring Whitney Houston’s first public performance — and one of her last in 2009— will be released Nov. 10.
“Whitney Houston Live: Her Greatest Performances” will be the pop singer’s first live album. Her mentor, Clive Davis, said the album will showcase her legacy.
“(It) shows why she is at the absolute historic top rank, up there with Aretha Franklin and Barbra Streisand as the greatest singers of our lifetime,” he said. “It really has been a labor of love on my part to go through every concert performance, every TV appearance.”
Houston was found dead in a hotel room in Beverly Hills in 2012. She was 48.
Davis produced the album, which includes Houston’s 1983 performance on “The Merv Griffin Show,” where she sang “Home” from “The Wiz,” and a 2009 performance on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” Some of the songs are ones that Houston performed live, but never recorded.