TAMPA, FL – JANUARY 27: Whitney Houston sings the National Anthem before a game with the New York Giants taking on the Buffalo Bills prior to Super Bowl XXV at Tampa Stadium on January 27, 1991 ...

How Whitney Houston's iconic Super Bowl national anthem became the gold standard. ... In 1991, the then 27-year-old vocalist set the gold standard with her rendition at Super Bowl 25 on Jan. 27.

Whitney Houston wore a La Coq Sportif tracksuit to sing the national anthem at the 1991 Super Bowl—but that wasn't her planned outfit.

It was Super Bowl XXV – the Buffalo Bills against the New York Giants. And though popular boy band New Kids on the Block won the coveted half-time show performance slot, it was Houston who stole ...

In 1991, Whitney Houston took the field at the now-defunct Tampa Stadium in Florida. She took everyone’s breath away with her rendition of the national anthem. Her performance was so iconic that ...

Brandy channeled Whitney Houston's Super Bowl style while singing the national anthem at the NFC championship game between the San Francisco 49ers and Los Angeles Rams.

Whitney Houston sings the National Anthem before a game with the New York Giants taking on the Buffalo Bills prior to Super Bowl XXV at Tampa Stadium on January 27, 1991 in Tampa, Florida.

Considered to be the ’gold standard’ of national anthem renditions, Houston’s 1991 Super Bowl performance can only be found on one platform.

Anyone needing a refresher on Whitney Houston’s classic 1991 version of the national anthem can check out the video ... who has produced multiple Super Bowl performances (including Houston’s), ...

She also kept it tight, at 94 seconds—one of the shortest Super Bowl anthems of the post-Whitney Houston era. A year later, Alicia Keys made it last a full minute longer. Garth Brooks (1993) ...

How ‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody' recreated Whitney Houston's Super Bowl performance using VFX and real locations ... 1991, Houston took the stage in Tampa Stadium to sing “The Star-Spangled ...

TAMPA, FL – JANUARY 27: Whitney Houston sings the National Anthem before a game with the New York Giants taking on the Buffalo Bills prior to Super Bowl XXV at Tampa Stadium on January 27, 1991 ...