Whitney Houston’s epic concert in South Africa staged after President Nelson Mandela’s landmark election will be hitting theater screens this fall. Collaborators say Houston’s 1994 performance has been turned into a fully-remastered theatrical release, called “The Concert for a New South Africa (Durban).
Whitney Houston performs during a concert in Durban, South Africa in 1994. Houston’s epic concert, staged after President Nelson Mandela’s landmark election, will be hitting theater screens this fall. Houston’s 1994 performance has been turned into a fully-remastered theatrical release, called “The Concert for a New South Africa .” ‘s epic concert in South Africa staged after President Nelson Mandela’s landmark election will be hitting theater screens this fall.
In 1994, Houston took the stage for three concerts in South Africa including in Durban at Kings Park Stadium, Johannesburg and Cape Town. Her performances came in a newly unified post-apartheid nation following Mandela’s historic election victory.How a traveling ‘health train’ has become an essential source of free care in South AfricaThe concerts drew more than 200,000 attendees in a show filled with celebration of freedom, hope and unity.
“It was my first time in South Africa, and I don’t think that I was truly prepared for how this trip would change me forever,” said Rickey Minor, a three-time Emmy winner who was Houston’s musical director for 25 years. “The energy was electric, and the audience was incredible, as we celebrated the end of apartheid. Whitney shared her love and shined her light.”
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