Whitney Houston - Porgy and Bess Med - [Live From The 21st A

[Lilbark1]

Absolutely beautiful. I know that GOD can do as he pleases, but what did we do to be blessed with this woman? I've seen some of her other videos, and thought she couldn't outdo herself. I've spent many a nights listening, but not believing what I was hearing. I've seen others post about Celine, Mariah, Beyonce, Chritina etc, being better, and checked them all out on Youtube. I just haven't seen it yet. They are all good, but Whitney has everything that the others just don't have, I'm sorry.

[malesecretary]

Didn't she almost have it all...

[rashad1977]

THE VOICE! that's all that needs to be said. There will NEVER be another one like her EVER!

[MrDTJones1]

greatest female singer ever. wow. who ever put classic songs with pop songs? whitney! and she did and i telling you before anyone knew that song. wow. and she did it so well. love this and love that she showcased it.

[wonder28980]

Why?It'll never be this way again.So pure.The best sax voice we will ever hear.Soon to be forgotten.Noone will even care.Ended up laughing bout shit being taken out her ass on being "Bobby Brown".How can he live with himself?Beauty,perfection,soul­.What did they do to her?You'll never hear this from her again.Its only us that remember and still listen and watch her.Over for what?How much higher can you get with people screamin and appreciating ur art!why?miss her so much!U do too.that y u lisn2!

[bigballsbigcock21]

this is one of her best performances of all time. just a perfect voice, a perfect singer. she set the standard of singing. she is the greatest.

[alpahaGod]

One of the best performance

[LisaSmilez]

just wow...

[AshantiMusic1]

THE BEST !!!! POINT BLANK PERIOD !!!!

[RowlfThePianoDog]

Holy moly! This girl does some serious singing! OMG

[tbkins]

What artist has the entire crowd on their feet mid performace then seats them for another amazing performance only to bring them back to their feet? None other than Ms. Whitney Houston

Flawless Performance!

[oridout4]

girlfriend is in the zone !!!!! geeeeeeez o petes man!!!

[oridout4]

this is just heavenly. we are so blessed to have this miracle in our time.all i can say is wooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwww­wwwwwwwwwww!

[TheVacantAlien]

Didn't she also do this medley at another show in a red dress? Maybe I'm remembering it wrong. Anyway, I love her rendition of I Loves You, Porgy.

[kamimura73]

ur watching a miracle, no one was supose to ever sing this good! People need to know singing was like breathing to her in this era! Look at her breathing tech on I have nothing , at the end when she is hitting them HIGH notes...flawless VICTORY!

[MrDTJones1]

she is the BEST.

[AngieMornington]

This is my favorite performance from Whitney. Divalicious!

[brandon2010ification]

alright whitney I love it

[wawahida07]

she's for real! she sing with her soul... love u whitney.. pls dont stop singing

[JasonEBernard1]

WOW! SHE KILLED THAT SHIT! THREE HARD SONGS! GO WHITNEY LOVE YOU FOREVER! J

[jboogie52000]

I love it. No one has done this since.

[MrWhiteboiswag]

REMARKABLE, WHITNEY AT THE TOP OF HER GAME!!!!!! THIS HEIFER MESSED THAT BEAUTIFUL VOICE UP.

[maymay028]

I dont care wat ppl say bout Whitney Houston, I am still a fan. Love this live performance she is amazing.

[alburge1970]

I LOVE IT! Truly talented! God's gift. There is and will never be another Whitney! Don't count her out. God has the final say. BELIEVE THAT!

[MilesLikeDavis09]

This was unprecedented. They gave her the entire segment. No awards were presented, as I recall... Just Whitney and then a commercial. In the days of the Bodyguard, Whitney was the music industry.

[MrPistolMason]

In my little ole book, this is the BEST performance by Whitney, hands down. The gurrl SAAAAAANG out.

[MrPistolMason]

In my little ole book, this is the BEST performance by Whitney, hands down.

[TheeSuperstar]

when was this recorded?

[al221177]

@TheeSuperstar Back in 1993 or 1994, in the American Music Awards

[ZofiaJW]

Pure magic! :)



[devonpoe]

the best vocal performance of ANY singer EVER

[al221177]

@devonpoe let me say it again, the best vocal performance of ANY singer EVER!!!!!

[TheQueenbee1973]

Awwww - this is the Whitney I love and miss <3

[quincaye]

daaaayuumm! she SANG that! The best! that voice wore me out :)

[MrTeebone1970]

I miss that voice

[MrSoulshock4444]

there are not enough words in common languages to describe this performance. this will NEVER be topped

[bloktv]

this is whitney before the illuminati threatened to take over her career, that is what happen and everyone knows it .. it wasnt drugs it wasnt bobby it was the illuminati that drove whit to those things

[PaceEtAmor]

I wish she would record an album of jazzy standards. It might not be commercial but it would give her chance to give her interpretive skills a chance that pop music just doesn't allow. Even with her present voice it could be magical!

[dot68w]

stunning performance

[dot68w]

now that is singing........ stunning xxx

[mg0398227]

one of her best! Remember being a kid and seeing this performance on tv and thinking "Damn she can sing"!

[kingofrnb]

Bobby was into that ish lol

[MrSoulshock4444]

@kingofrnb yeah i knew he had just married the baddest bitch in the game

[sugamama4]

No one can touch her. Hands down and we can take that to the bank

[Drealeshawn79]

BEST PERFORMANCE EVER!!!! NOONE CAN BEAT HER!!!

[sugamama4]

@Drealeshawn79 sooooooooooo true

[jm423]

I'm so sick of people commenting acting like she's dead saying stuff like she lost her voice and all other stuff. It's for the birds. At least she's alive, the voice IS ACTUALLY STILL THERE if you actually give her a chance. Just enjoy her past performances and be POSITIVE.

[updateme33]

OMG...the greatest...that's all I have to say.

[derek827]

this is outstanding. i cry every time i hear this.

[mountainlinx]

Amen!!! and Hallelujah as well!

[Neno8403]

I have nothing without you, Whitney! I watch this performance all the time. This performance and the one she did at the 1991 Billboard Music Awards are the best live music awards performances I've ever heard. This woman is the pinnacle of phenomenal!

[finstaen]

This really sucks....

[iloveabba91]

@finstaen Go listen to your Mooriass Scary stuff or some losers like Justin "can't sing" bieber or Weirdy Gaga, you bitch.

[glxy55]

That was truly phenomenal. We will likely never see or hear this kind of performance from Whitney again. Something magnificent has been destroyed, lost to years of drug abuse and of neglect of the national treasure that was that voice, that persona.

Bobby Brown? Was he worth it? Hardly! I don't know that I'll ever forgive him for leading Whitney onto the path of her own destruction; or forgive her for following him there.

The loss of The Voice is more than a shame; its an outrage!

[MrSoulshock4444]

@glxy55 true, you won't see this kind of performance from whitney again. but i guess you never saw it from anyone else anyway

[flyykid13]

Standing Ovation halfway through the performance! Whitney blew this away!!!! I love it even more everytime I see it!

[kayliegh84]

She made my cry :(((((

[march23aries]

Classic Whitney...Beauty in the form of song, you better sing Nip!!!

[dmpetrick]

Terrible bastardization of a classic. It's like she took all the artistry and melody out of it--and you're left with her tacky choir embellishments. Where's the phrasing, the technical brillance, the breath control, the high notes, and the artistry? She needs to hire a singing coach and get off the drugs.

[benneke1978]

@dmpetrick

ARE U ON DRUGS OR SO ?

[dbush313]

@benneke1978

i agree with you dmpetrick

[keisha0722]

@benneke1978 toy u bitch seh can sing u toyre moam and yo sister our fuck it yo granny to stop hating bitch

[benneke1978]

@keisha0722 A WORLD FULL OF CRAZY PEOPLE AND I JUS FIND ONE

GET REAL

[hrshykrackel]

@dmpetrick I agree about ruining a classic...She didn't do a good job of evoking the emotion of the piece. She is a great singer, this is just a bad arrangement of a great piece.

[MrSoulshock4444]

@dmpetrick LMFAO you must be on something

[Denadine22]

@dmpetrick -You must be out of your mind!! What the hell you smokin on? You couldn't have been listening to the same thing I just listen to. I guess the crowd also thought it was a terrible bastardization of a classic...that's why they were on their feet before she finished singing the second song!!! WOW!!!

[DAZSA]

@dmpetrick u cant possibly be any kind of singer or know anything about performing or anythinh u have to be crazy to make that comment. This is is in the top5 performances ever of whitney. AND SHE WAS AT THE TOP OF HER GAME WHEN SHE DID THIS! NOVICE U R!

[MrSoulshock4444]

@DAZSA if I may correct you, i wouldn't say this is in the top 5 performances by whitney. I would say it's in the top 5 performances by any female singer ever. I actually never seen anything like this before or since. mariah & celine couldn't touch this performance in their wildest dreams

[ter1413]

@dmpetrick

Pls don't comment if you know nothing about singing! This is top 5 performances of ALL time. Drop an album and then talk!

[imaginethis31]

@dmpetrick LMAO! You are a real dummy!

[MrGclef1183]

@dmpetrick wow...this comment is showing that you have absolutely NO knowledge of singing whatsoever...Jazz doesn't have to be sung so blandly all the time, this is isn't 1940s 50s 60s anymore, jazz singing has evolved, and if I were a producer that wanted ratings, I'd pick the more commercially successful singer over a singer that would "sing it correctly".

[canderson4050]

@dmpetrick Are you serious? The mark of a great singer is that they make a song, classic or otherwise, their own. Whitney sounded phenomenal with range, pitch and tone. This performance definitely showed her versatility as a true singer. It certainly does her voice more justice than the pop sound that was engineered by Clive Davis. I thought that sound was void of any artistry or melody and it force Whitney to scream more than sing. She is the greatest singer of our time.

[gigglyfitzgirl]

@dmpetrick are you sure you're commenting on the right video?

[Bigman240]

An amazing artist and the beginning of her vocal decline...So sad...but so is life...

[MrSoulshock4444]

@Bigman240 sorry i didn't hear anything declining in this video

[damone77]

Well if Whitney had stayed sober, she probably would have remade "A Star is Born" which Streisand and Garland had made in 77 and 54. Whitney would have been spectacular in that vehicle. By and by this is a Gershwin Song "I love you Porgy". Let's give credit to the composer who died from a brain tumor at a very young age of 37 or 39. Also she's singing Krieger's "I'm not going"...actually a great pairing with the Gershwin classic!

[rebafan19]

Bryton McClure, Reba McEntire, Pam Tillis, Barbara Mandrell, Trisha Yearwood and Whitney Houston were at the Awards on February 7, 1994 on CBS

[SexyLiLLeilaniMya]

She should have been asked to do Broadway back in these days but with "The Bodyguard" and all of the other projects she was working on made a fantasy to ever see her on stage and that's a shame because with her version of Porgy & Bess proves she would have been up for Broadway and just stage period!

[TalaldAnnaba]

The best Whitney performance, and the greatest performance of all time

[operadawg]

It's always good to hear Whitney when she had a voice, but this is just plain cheesy and self-indulgent. Yuck!

[xanderdom8]

...oh whitney....what happened...?

[rabotted]

Outrageous! That is what they call vocal strength! Still the best perfomer I know.

[DAZSA]

this is best performance she has EVER given! hands down

[HausOfMigi]

Amazing. A voice so pure, full of power, soul, & versatility. This is what music should sound like.

[jimdavis081]

That is why she is simple the great and the best.

[frankieheartsful]

You could make an argument that WH is the greatest female singer of alltime.

[TheMissAndreea]

i found it on imesh

[tiljazz1]

Absolutely Marvellous!

[tjackson0016]

Who is Porgy?

[ter1413]

Rodgers & Hammerstein's Porgy and Bess

[ANDREWPUFFY]

The One..that one man that makes you say yes to his every need even when you know you should say no . You do things you never thought you would do but,its your little dirty secret and this has nothing to do with drugs. It's just LOVE.After making love to him your body trembles,tears began to pour and the word no, no longer exists when making love to him. This is a stage in a woman's life when you see her with a no good for nothing man and wonder why??

[MrJB2269]

Sing Girl !!!!

[metamelody]

Best. Of. All. Time.

[giocody]

che voce!!! incredibile!!!

purtroppo, tipico esempio di talento senza intelligenza.

[Vogueboyzz]

This is out of this world !!!! The best live performance of her whole career!!! It doesn't get better than this! Hail the Queen!

[MrSoulshock4444]

I believe this is the best live performance of everybody's career! lol

[MTCfan]

@MrSoulshock4444

LOL, you aren't lying my friend. This performance is sick! I LOVE,LOVE,LOVE it & Whitney!

[musicexpo]

@MTCfan

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it & Whitney too...lololol

[Catholicspirit]

She was SANGING those songs!

The power of that voice is what I aspire to develop.

Truly God given.

[DivaLoverOne]

Oh, Whitney... why did you throw it all away...

[tinktink31]

I luv Whit soooooooo much, GOD is gonna give it all back!!! Blessings Ms.Whitney Houston

[cheyelleomar]

THE VOICE.

[rachybaby72]

Wow, now look at that. The woman manages to look sexy and attractive without having to resort to showing her bare midriff (or bare anything else).

Whitney is a class act, from covered head to covered toe.

[Coydarel]

Im sick

[jese1975]

Whitney is the epitome of the real DIVA!!!! and she has the goods to back it up... I love you girl and welcome back...

[pearpeas]

DIVA!

[pearpeas]

I remeber Reba crying at this years AMA when whintey sang. I was like....ok--but I guess to witness what WH WAS here to just being alive NOW---i truly understand the tears.

[lilcynic54]

I think Reba was crying because it was amazing to see Whitney Houston (the name alone says a lot) back commanding the stage and the audience like she never left. From all accounts I've read, the performance in person was 100x better than what we saw on TV.

[MusikkogKorps]

Nobody like Whitney Houston. No one in this world like her. Magic and love. Tears. Connection. What more does anyone need... I love you Whitney!!! :-D

[ultimatewhitneyfan13]

wow, this is truly amazing. i love whitney so muchhh<3 (:

[rmbb10]

She did that.

[sexisaweapon68]

I pray for her to return to this

[adamps16]

I love the way bobby brown is rocking away to her at the front and her daughter christina is in the little white dress being bounced around to her mum singing. Something very sweet about it.

[Cyrilstyle]

Whitney is the greatest!!!!!

[WebScribes]

I really miss this Whitney, she was the very best. No one today touches Whitney in her prime. I guess the closest today is that new teen Charice. She has that special tone in her voice to go with the vocal range.

Don't know who Charice is? Check her out on Oprah:

watch?v=rkLr0w_ybP4

!

[kaju07]

Whitney is the greatest. There was, is and will NEVER be someone like her!

[ThaShiznit1986]

NOBODY does it like Miss Whitney! The greatest.

[ra1913m]

Ok im not here to dis Celine, Mariah, Madonna, Beyonce, Xtrina or Babara but daaaam Whitney Houston is a freakin phenomina.....this performance is without a doubt the best live...Live i repeat Live performance from any dam entertainer out there. She didnt need special effects, she didnt need back up dancers, she didnt need enhanced audio...she just need her back up band, a mic and a stage. Flawless, and unmatch simply spectacular and superb. Best vocalist live and recorded of all time.

[pannoni1]

The AMAs DENIED Whitney this year! She was eligible B*lls**t! I'm not trusting the american voters ever again! Michael Jackson got FIVE nominations and Whitney, who actually is ALIVE and made a comeback, gets ZERO!

AMA SUCKS! AMA SUCKS! AMA IS ANTI-WHITNEY!

[mcworld999]

Whitney is being honored with International Artist Award, AMA's highest award.

[sugamama4]

@pannoni1 lol

[nolagotti]

@pannoni1 Whitney is the best 2 ever have done it. the greatest singer of all time.But Whitney was not vocally ready to do an album.This new album is a far cry from the standard that the music industry recognize in Whitney.The execs and AMA's..Grammys saw this and didnt choose to acknowledge her b/c her voice is simply a fraction what what she is known for and they didnt want 2 pretend I however think that they should have shown her that respect..look at how much she has contributed 2 music.

[BIGTROY1966]

I LOVE YOU

[Nevelstraum]

This was such a wonderful display of her talent and her voice! She's a brilliant artist IMO.

[dan5470]

Wow - nobody can touch this. Her talent is remarkable!

[ThaShiznit1986]

INCREDIBLE.

[Vinsanity2525]

Amazing how she went from one big song to the next. All live. Such a rare performer, I love her and her new album

[eftsele]

I am pretty sure she will perform as good as she did in the past. In thhe album she proves it

[dirrtyXstf]

flawless performance. BIGGEST ARTIST EVER... what a pitty...she will never be like this again....with the new album the fans will be disappointed...because the drugs have destroyed THE VOICE unfortunately.

Wish you the best whitney!

[75lucie]

she's so moving as a beautiful woman,natural, with so much class, so much "allure", so much grace and charm and as a fantastic singer and performer with strength but also fragility, an unbelieveble presence and of course a voice came from somewhere else!! She sings with her soul like she breathes...

[liljoehundley]

She owned those songs.. Whitney I still love to hear you sing

[ANDREWPUFFY]

September 1,2009 she returns but NEVER left only she has the ability to sang yes sang not sing such a performance. I do luvs Whitney 2222 oooooohhhh.

[tenorant]

this doesnt make sense>!>!>

[paulostroff99]

To call this sensational would be a great insult. This is truly without equal,and for eternity!

[ANDREWPUFFY]

I agree I do AGREE Whitneys #1 GOODBYE Beyonce.

[skills1ent]

Another universe!!!!

[Tmontyb10009]

I love zhoo, Porgy, LOL. I love Whitney!!

[maymay028]

bobby brown in the front row is so funny.

[wolven1989]

WHITNEY la mejor ... hoy mañana y siempre ... voz interpretacion y bellesa ....

wonder-Woman!!

[Nikray]

You know you are bad when an award show gives you this much time to perform!!! Wow

[the7prince]

where can i find this vid in better quality?? i want it... audio and video... please!!! tell me! thanx!

[whitneybrazil]

Whitney has an amazing voice, thank God!

[sood45]

stunning

[galacticox4]

That's the performance of a lifetime. could you imagine having the ability to make people stand, dance, sing and cry all in about ten minutes with nothing but your voice and a mic. Just once. And some people wonder why everybody would love to be able to sing.

[cvcvbnbn]

Whitney are her best. And her best is DAMN good. I miss this Whitney.

[brutal690]

2 WORDS SIMPLY AMAZING

[Mymamadonetoldme]

It's fantastic how the songs link together depictions of african-american women in song from throughout time, starting with porgy & bess, to dreamgirls, to the bodyguard.

[Brahmsfourth]

This woman was a force of nature; she was a singer without peer. What a supremely lamentable shame that her life and soaring talent took the path that it did. A sad loss for all of us.

[meneshayounot]

love this.. (porgy) it's surprising that when christina did it she simplified it (because she's known for her dynamics and gymnastics every which way)

[tirayi]

I dont have all her albums or anything but THIS is the real F**KING deal right here. She has it all, the poise, the beauty the musicality,THE voice and that very rare extra something that is supreme star quality. Undeniable.

Awe inspiring.

[musicman12330967]

The finest singer of our generation!!!!!

[maymay028]

Ms.Whitney at her best. Amazing performance.

[BlackRoseMusic]

OMG She gave me such energy just watching that performance and I send it back to her 1000 fold. AMAZING! Thank you Whitney.

Wendy

[77573086]

I love her *O*!!

[bronxdog67]

the best i have ever seenn... WHITNEY's voice is amazing and without effort

[kweenpoto]

OMG - Chills!!

This performance was simply outstanding!!