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A CD/DVD featuring Whitney Houston’s first public performance and one of her last in 2009 will be released November 10. “Whitney Houston Live: Her Greatest Performances” is 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 in a recent interview.

“It really has been a labour 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, California, 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.

Davis, chief creative officer of Sony Music Entertainment, said it was hard going through videos to select the final track listing.

Pat Houston, Whitney’s sister-in-law and head of the singer’s estate, didn’t find the process too difficult. – AP.