We Will Always Love You: A Grammy Salute to Whitney Houston

A host of celebrities have paid tribute to as part of a special Grammy television show in Los Angeles.

, and LL Cool J were among the presenters at the Nokia Theatre honoring Whitney Houston who died in February aged 48.

There were also musical performances from Jennifer Hudson and Usher who sang some of Whitney Houston’s hits.

We Will Always Love You: A Grammy to Whitney Houston will be broadcast in the US on 13 November.

A number of stars shared their memories of the singer at the event.

“She inspired a generation of little girls and women to believe in their own dream and to know that they had within themselves the greatest gift of all,” Halle Berry said on stage.

“I was one of those little girls who then became a woman who never ever, ever, stopped loving Whitney Houston.”

While Britney Spears said her version of Whitney Houston’s I Have Nothing scored her a deal with a record label and started her career.

The event was attended by Whitney Houston’s daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, and record label executive , who discovered the singer.

Whitney Houston was found dead in a Beverly Hills hotel bathtub the night before this year’s .

Authorities said the cause of death was accidental drowning brought on by cocaine use and heart disease.

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