Live from the Billboard Music Awards: Swift wins Top Artist;  Bieber wins Milestone Award; Prince burns in finale

                                               Tom Donoghue

Taylor Swift backstage  at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena on Sunday, May 19,  2013. Swift won eight awards.

By John  Katsilometes                            

Published Sunday, May 19, 2013 | 5:03 p.m.

Updated Sunday, May 19, 2013 | 8:15 p.m.

2013 Billboard Music Awards  at MGM Grand

Steve Marcus  – Prince performs during the 2013 Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand  Garden Arena Sunday, May 19, 2013.

To say that Margie Holliday is blessed with one of the sweetest voices on this side of heaven is hard to believe, that is, until you hear her Christian compact disc.

If one could describe her collection of praise songs in one word, it would be ‘sweetness’ since honey seems to flow from her golden throat. What’s even harder to believe is that it took over half a century before she mustered up the courage to record.

“One day my brother Manny came to me and said, ‘the Lord has placed it in my heart to do an album for our age (group) since there’s not much out there,” Margie said during a telephone interview.