Kevin Costner
Costner, who starred in the 1992 film The Bodyguard alongside Houston in her first film role, put to rest Houston’s uncertainty about her own acting skills. “You weren’t just good enough, you were great. You sang the whole damn song without a band. You made the picture what it was. A lot of leading men could have played my part, a lot of guys could have filled that role. But you Whitney, I truly believe, were the only one who could have played Rachel Marron at that time.”
Alicia Keys
Keys choked back tears as she remembered her close friend Whitney Houston for “[t]he way she crept into everybody’s heart, the way she was a beautiful human being…She’s an angel to us, and a beautiful human being. I think we’ve been sent an angel for a long time.” Her stirring rendition of “Send Me an Angel” paid tribute to this facet of Houston’s personality.
