Inside Whitney Houston’s ‘best show’ at landmark South Africa concert 30 years ago: She was ‘hysterically funny’ and ‘confident’
nypost.comWhitney Houston.So if there was going to be one singer on earth to capture a historic moment in time, it was going to be the “I Will Always Love You” diva.And so Houston was the first major Western artist to perform in a post-apartheid South Africa after Nelson Mandela was elected president in 1994, with three shows in Durban, Johannesburg and Cape Town.But while the Johannesburg show on Nov.
12, 1994 was the one aired by HBO, the Nov. 8 Durban date is now showcased in “The Concert for a New South Africa [Durban],” a film that will be playing in select theaters on Oct.
23 and 27 before the live album is released on Nov. 8.It’s a rousing rewind back to the prime of Houston’s career — 18 years before her death in 2012 at age 48.“She was at the peak of her powers,” producer and director Marty Callner told The Post. “Nobody had her pipes.
And that night, she hit everything. She was absolutely perfect — no cracks in the voice, no straining, no working around the high notes, none of that.
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