Internet Tributes

Hello their, readers. Just before I go on with further music related posts I wanted to mention something with regards to tributes. As is the nature of life, their will be a time when that life ends, and these passings can be marked with a tribute. Relating this idea with the blogs and other websites, I had this idea, and would really appreciate feedback on, which was to set up a tribute page on the linked to each of the Blogged......blogs. Basically, the idea would be tributes are placed on the website by anyone who wants to, under the name of the person who has passed on (in what ways seen fit, could be with words, music, video or an image for example) along with the persons name the tributes are too. I planed on putting this across each blog, so that tributes could be added relating to a passing in that field, so for example on the music blog, if someone had passed on from the music industry. The idea I thought would be to mark their impact in that field, but wanting to recognize the person they were to people not from a industry perspective but from a personal perspective, more then just the industry they were famous for. I was thinking of adding a separate website for each of these blogs tribute pages and link them up to the blogs, where anyone will be able to post their tributes. I'll still post tributes on to the blog itself, and in recent months the music world has seen a number of looses close together, and I planned on posting a tribute on these artists life, but unfortunately I was unable to at the time, however I will now be working on those along with the tribute pages.

As I say your feedback will be greatly appreciated on this idea, along with another page where the idea is people can give messages to anyone they want, it could be a message of encouragement, a message of congradulation, or maybe just to say hi, any nice message will do!

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Whitney Houston 1963-2012

As we heard of the death of Whitney Houston, thoughts are with all those who knew her. Their will  be all those who never met her, but knew her music and admired her work. I'm one of those people and it is their I would like to share my thoughts on what I knew of Whitney- a singing great. I don't just mean that as a phrase to say, but I mean that. She was a great singer, whose songs have rightly become classics. She used her voice to make great records. Whitney had a truly brilliant vocal; a vocal that could give us fast, up beat dance numbers such as I Wanna Dance With Somebody, then give us an epic take on powerful ballads, such as her cover of I Will Always Love You. What I loved about her voice as well as the great range of vocal styles she could perform was the richness in her voice, if you listen you can hear a lovely depth to her singing. An excellent performer.

She died very young indeed, but what a great catalogue of songs she has left us.
Here's a small selection of her brilliant songs, from musical greatness:

Whitney Houston 1963-2011

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