Nelson Mandela has paid tribute to Whitney Houston, the American singer and actress who died in her Los Angeles hotel room at the weekend.
The former South African president, speaking through his eponymous foundation, extended his “deepest condolences” to the family and friends of Miss Houston, 48.
The Bodyguard star was a staunch supporter of the fight against apartheid and refused to work with any agencies who did business with pre-democratic South Africa during her modelling days.
She was one of the headline acts at the 1988 London concert to celebrate Mr Mandela’s 70th birthday while he was still in prison, and in October 1994, met the iconic statesman once he had become president at a dinner hosted by Bill Clinton at the White House.
Before singing for guests in the Rose Garden, she told them: “This performance is very special to me because in 1988 I sang in honour of Nelson Mandela the inmate and tonight I sing for elected president, Nelson Mandela.”
El mes siguiente, she travelled to South Africa where she performed in Durban, Cape Town and Johannesburg in the Concert for a New South Africa.
Fuente:The Telgraph
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