10 best Grammy winners of all time
By Buckie Wells
Album of the Year Winner: The Bodyguard – Original Soundtrack Album
Year(s) Won: 1985, 1987, 1993, 1999
Other Accolades: Best Pop Vocal Performance, Record Of The Year, Best Female R&B Vocal Performance
Don’t let the fact that she doesn’t have 100 accolades on here fool you. Everybody knows Whitney Houston, both for positive and negative reasons that we don’t have to get into here. What’s most important is that we will always love her rendition of “I Will Always Love You”. This song will be played at any given wedding for the rest of time. It doesn’t even matter that it’s a cover of Dolly Parton’s song. I mean, it kind of does because she originally wrote the song in 1974 and deserves the credit — and she sings it just as beautifully. But Whitney’s voice shook people.
And it’s because of this single song that the entire soundtrack won a Grammy for the Album of the Year. Obviously, this win also made Whitney Houston one of the most important voices of a generation. It’s one of the highest-selling singles of all time and the highest-selling from a woman, too. And after Houston passed away, the single returned to the Top 10 charts, the only single to top the charts twice on two separate occasions.
Likewise, “I Want to Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) deserves as much praise as well. Because that’s a feel good song and just makes you want to … dance.