Hot! Bet Awards 2012

With each of the star energy for the BET Awards Kanye West, Jay-Z, Nicki Minaj, Beyonce in addition to Samuel L. Jackson, to name some sort of few the most stirring instant emerged not necessarily from the superstar, but in the mother associated with one.

Whitney Houston's mother, Cissy, provided the actual mental emphasize of Sunday's ceremony when the lady sang "Bridge Over Troubled Water" in homage in order to the woman overdue daughter, departing target audience affiliates like Beyonce and Soulja Boy in tears.

Mariah Carey opened the tribute, and the woman voice wavered because your lover informed testimonies regarding Houston. She recalled the last moment your woman discovered Houston very last year, and how a a couple of laughed plus gossiped together.

"I miss my friend," Carey said. "I skip reading your ex voice along with laughter."

R&B singer Monica has been vocally top-notch while the girl sang "I Love this Lord," a gospel music once sang by Houston; Brandy sang two upbeat Houston hits, "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" and "I'm Your Baby Tonight." Chaka Khan blazed the cycle by using "I'm Every Woman," which often Houston remade. Gary Houston, Whitney's brother, in addition performed; and Houston's "Waiting in order to Exhale" castmates Angela Bassett, Lela Rochon in addition to Loretta Devine also priviledged the singer.

But it was Cissy Houston's soaring performance of which brought the target audience thus to their feet, plus experienced many dabbing their eyes. The tribute came personal training a few months after Houston's death: She died the night time prior to this Grammy Awards of your accidental drowning challenging by simply heart problems as well as cocaine use.

As persuasive seeing that which second was, the actual demonstrate ended up being in addition outlined simply by its very low points: Entire segments with performances, through Nicki Minaj that will Rick Ross, have been muted available because of foul terms plus obscenities, although various vulgarities had been noticed on air.

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