shot to the bill board charts in 1965. in 2005 the star was inducted into the country music hall of fame. in 2011 he shocked the music world with a stunning announcement. what they diagnosed me as. alzheimer s. alzheimer s. what s alsz hizheimer s? he decided to bow out of the business and went on tour in a band featuring three of his children. the music world rallied around him. he took to the stage to perform amidst a star-studded tribute. all i wanted to do since i can remember was play my guitar and sing. searching the sun for another i m ryan nobles reporting. rhinestone cowboy puts me
what god lives is never a coincidence and more than some happenstance it was a beautiful service. stevie wonder, just one of her friends saluting her during the funeral services at houston s hometown church in new jersey. alicia keys, art kelly, all honoring houston with their voices. stars like tyler perry and kevin costner told personal stories in memory of the superstar. aretha franklin was scheduled to be there but had to cancel because she wasn t feeling well. the service included a letter from her daughter, bobby christina. it read god said it s time, your work is done. thanks for being a wonderful daughter. as for her ex-husband, bobby brown, he says in a written statement he wasn t happy about being asked to move three times and says security kept him from seeing his daughter. so he left because i refused to create a scene. in all, it was roughly a four-hour homegoing tribute to whitney houston and punctuating the service today, a recording of louft s i