Grammy TV show to honour Whitney Huston

Grammy organisers

plan to mark the first anniversary of

the sudden death of Whitney

Houston with a behind-the-scenes

TV show on how they scrambled to

honour the singer just 24 hours after

she died.



The Recording Academy said on

Thursday that the hour-long special

entitled The Grammys Will Go On: A

Death in the Family will air on 9

February, the day before the 2013

Grammy Awards ceremony in Los

Angeles.



Houston, who sold hundreds of

millions of records and scored the

mega hits I Will Always Love You and

I Wanna Dance with Somebody,

drowned in a bathtub at a Beverly

Hills hotel room on 11 February 2012

- the eve of last year's Grammy

Awards show.



Hours before and after Houston's

death



Houston's unexpected death at age

48 cast a shadow over the event,

which quickly changed its

programme to pay homage to the

soaring voice that had dominated

the Grammys in decades past.



Singer and actress Jennifer Hudson

performed a medley of Houston's

hits at last year's Grammys, and

rapper and host LL Cool J opened the

show with a prayer.



The TV special on broadcaster CBS

features rehearsals and interviews

with artists - including Hudson,

Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift -

and the show's producers in the

hours before and after Houston's

death.



The Recording Academy produces

the annual Grammy awards.