We’re always by the timing of a but, in a case like this, not that a tragedy has occurred because her decline was publicly. We all saw her behavior the of and we all heard the terrible that had been done to her . A voice which was such a great gift, which she had worked to so hard, which bore such great fruit and which has been the for female vocal performance for years. Everyone from Mariah Carey, through Christine Aguilera down to the reality show vocalists in the style of Whitney Houston. None of them sounding as as the original because Whitney did have that of using her voice like a gymnasium, going up and down the scales, the volume. It was a bravura performance time and time again and she was truly an artist.