Unreleased Whitney Houston sells for $1m

Song is part of new NFT collection

An unreleased Whitney Houston recording made when she was 17 was just sold last night (Tues, Dec 14th) in a 24-hour auction on the OneOf NFT platform. The winning bid was for $1 million, the highest priced NFT auction item on the Tezos(XTZ) blockchain, ever. In total, the full collection, which features rare images and videos, has generated over $1.1 million in sales thus far.

The winner of the auction has personal access to Houston’s recording in their OneOf Vault along with a digital video created by breakout 17-year-old artist Diana Sinclair, who has recently been featured in TIME, Teen Vogue and Hypebeast. Recently, a conversation between executor of the Whitney Houston Estate, Pat Houston, and Diana Sinclair about the collection was held during OneOf.World at Miami Art Week.

The auction proceeds will go to the Whitney E. Houston Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting and empowering young creators to reach for the stars, just as Whitney did.

The Whitney Houston OneOf collection includes thousands of affordable, fixed-price NFTs. The Gold and Platinum items feature rarely-seen archival photos from Houston’s early life and career, designed as colorful and vibrant animations that create a mesmerizing digital scrapbook effect. For the Diamond tier, Sinclair’s video artwork was inspired by the songs and music videos for “The Greatest Love of All” and “I Will Always Love You,” exploring Houston’s focus on supporting and inspiring young people, especially Black youth.

A limited edition Gold tier pre-sale of only 300 tokens at $17 is available. The primary seven day sale of Platinum, Diamond, and remaining Gold tier NFTs will begin on November 30th. The Whitney “OneOf One” NFT will be the first NFT in the “OneOf Iconic” series.

Buddy Iahn
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