Whitney Houston To Return To Stage As A Hologram

The late Whitney Houston

A HOLOGRAPHIC representation of the late Whitney Houston will tour the world in 2016, it has been announced.

The project is being organised three years after the singer’s death by Hologram USA in conjunction with Pat Houston, Houston’s sister-in-law and president of her estate.

In a statement, Ms Houston said the hologram would be “a great opportunity for her fans to see a reinvention of one the most celebrated female artists in history and to continue a legacy of performances that will not be forgotten in years to come”.

The virtual recreation will perform in “a major US venue” for a show that will be beamed to TVs and computers around the world via FilmOn Studios, a live-stream website and TV app developed by Hologram USA.

After the show’s debut online, the hologram is expected to go on an international tour.

It is not the first time that a hologram of a celebrity has been made posthumously.

Last year, a hologram of Michael Jackson made an appearance at the Billboard Music Awards, mirroring the late King of Pop’s trademark moonwalking dance moves.

Singer Bobby Brown says he thinks Whitney Houston was ready for their daughter, Bobbi Kristina, to be with her “in heaven”.

Meanwhile, Bobby Brown has said he believes things would have turned out differently for his daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown if he had been with her days before she was found unresponsive in her home in Atlanta.

Speaking publicly for the first time since Bobbi Kristina’s death in July, the singer said: “If I could have been there two days before, it wouldn’t have went down like that.”

In the TV appearance on Fox’s talk show The Real, which airs today, Brown became emotional several times while sitting next to his wife, Alicia Etheredge.

Bobbi Kristina, the only daughter between Brown and the late Whitney Houston, died in a hospice in July.

The 22-year-old suffered irreversible brain damage after being found face-down in a bathtub in her Georgia home in January.
Brown said he held out hope for months that his daughter would survive.

“We prayed and hoped for six months, you know, for something better to happen,” he said. “But when God calls you, he calls you.”

Brown said he thinks Houston was ready for their daughter to be with the singer “in heaven”.
“I’m pretty sure her mother was… had a part with like, ‘Come on, let’s get her up here’,” he said. “(Whitney) was not comfortable by herself, I guess. She just called my daughter with her.”

Houston’s death was eerily similar to her daughter’s. She was found face-down in a foot of water in her bathtub at the Beverly Hilton Hotel just before the 2012 Grammy Awards.

Authorities found prescription drugs in the suite and evidence of heart disease and cocaine in her body but determined her death was an accidental drowning. SkyNews.com