29 years ago, Whitney Houston gave an iconic National Anthem performance during Super Bowl XXV. In preparation for SBLIV and in honor of BlackHistoryMonth, read her brother Gary’s reflections on what that moment meant for his sister and the nation.
On Jan. 27, 1991, the New York Giants and the Buffalo Bills were gearing up to hit the gridiron at Super Bowl XXV in Tampa, Florida. But as the nation plopped onto their couches to catch the biggest sporting event of the year, no one probably knew they were about to witness history for another reason: Whitney Houston’s performance of Francis Scott Key’s “The Star-Spangled Banner” that Sunday night.
“It wasn’t a lot of hype going in,” Houston’s brother, Gary, tells EW of that night. “She was like a little girl going into a football game — not really understanding the magnitude of this game. But she was very excited, like, ‘Isn’t this great?'”
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