A 13-year-old Austrian girl grabbed the song “I Will Always Love You” and made it her own, forty years after Dolly Parton refused Elvis Presley the rights to it.
Laura Kamhuber played the song “forbidden,” which Whitney Houston had introduced to a new audience in 1992, brilliantly during the blind auditions for The Voice Kids.
She also momentarily silenced the judges. Learn more about the little girl’s audition, which has received 226 million views on YouTube, by reading on!
Dolly Parton’s popular song “I Will Always Love You,” which she published that same year, was adapted by Elvis Presley in 1974.
Parton would have to forfeit half of the publishing rights of the country song she composed when she ended her career with Porter Wagoner,
