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  • God gave her a gift to share with the world and now she is truly free in the arms of God. Love always Whit. Peace

  • There will never be another..

  • When God gives,He gives in abundances. . .

    She will forever be "The Voice"

  • Simply beautiful! Pure and brilliant...the best!

  • This woman... words can't express RIP Whitney

  • Unbelievably beautiful

  • Her voice, capable of moving mountains..When she singed it was as if God was speaking through her very voice..Let the Heavens take care of our Whitney!..She is home <3

  • I've loved this for years. Such pure god-given talent!

  • My fucking God Whitney! You can finally rest love. One of the few greats in music history

  • Sure Whitney's pop music is what put her on the map, but it's songs like this where you truly see her potential and just how annointed she actually was. God smiled when she was born, because He was the only one that knew how much of a blessing she was going to be to us. Instead of dwelling on the latter years of her life, let's remember her warm smile, kind heart and amazing music. Most of all, let's pray her family strength. Sleep well Angel.

  • Beauty at it's Best.. pure and flawless.. RIP <3

  • Sleep Well.....(smh)...you can rest now...

    

  • Good night Whitney. Thank you for gracing the world with your voice. May you sing with the angels in eternal peace.

  • Thank you Lord for loaning her to us!

  • Whitney you are the reason I fell in love with this song. My mother who has now passed loved this song so much, so much that it had to be a part of my wedding 15 years ago. My you rest in the arms of our Heavenly Father. No more worries and no more pain. REST IN PEACE

  • Rest in Paradise Whitney<3

  • My God... To witness this woman at work in private, without the pressures of observers... Imagine if we could hear what is in her heart. Praise be to the Creator. And praise His messenger.

  • That period her head voice was so pure and at maybe its finest. Now her upper soprano is not as blended but she does still have it. The next project will be what we are waiting for.

  • This tv special on ABC aired in early '92. Whit was about 28 as it was before Aug '92. It was during the I'm Your Baby Tonight Tour. Hope this helps.

    T-bone

  • i would love to just listen in on all of her rehearsals if they sound like this!

  • SHE TORE IT UP!!!

  • halle hallelujah

  • Simply Beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!! I thank God for Youtube and I come and listen to such an amazing voice and performer. Luv Ya Whitney (Nippy). My prayers are always with you and this world.

  • This is absolutely gorgeous, her voice sounds the same as I will Always Love You recordings.

  • Only God can take it away but even then he leaves us memories like this! Da baby was and still is blessed.

  • she is just amazing, i dont get tired if listen her, thats why you see all those voice Tv shows always mention her,,,,this is the reason :)

  • how old is she in this video?

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  • whitney has a timeless elegance to her voice. this was a real worship, right here. it makes it so clear where whitney's voice comes from. but u gotta take it backand thank her momma, too cuz moms' prayed her up and taught her how to do it! cissy, God bless u ;o}

  • Danm, that's all i gotta say

  • All these years ive listened to this but never SEEN it...I didn't know it was a REHEARSAL....wow

  • you are the best singer ever. !!!!! no one sounds better than you!! or ever will!!!!!!! 

  • My honest prayer is that Whitney will come back strong singing for the Lord with all her heart just as she is at that moment frozen in time. She is too talented to be lost to the world. God Bless her!!!

  • The harmony is dangerous... I love that no matter how strong Ms Whit's voice she still has a nice blending quality... Nicely done Nippy. Thanks

  • I love Gospel, I love her... my goodness, she's the best! God bless her!!!

  • we need you lord :(

  • yeeeeeeees so they can be free like me. yes Lord!!!

  • Although challenged, Whitney remains one of my favorite artists of all times. I pray that God will perfect all things concerning her.

  • Amen

  • mamma mia...Whitney is the best !!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Mariah didn't come close to Whitney in these days. Whitney needs to just take a rest before a big tour. She'll be fine, give her some more time.

  • Lord we need your love....THIS DAY!!!!

  • Damn Whitney, what happen girl?  Can't believe you lost this beautiful voice. Still got love for you...

  • I wonder if Bobbi Christina took the time to watch all of these wonderful performances by her mother? I also wonder if she really knows what a wonderful voice her mom really had, and still do? She should be very proud of her mother!! Love you Whitney.

  • WOW! What a gift. I have always loved Whitney. She is truly blessed with a tremendous instrument. No one can touch her. She is The Voice. She expresses so much emotion with her voice. I listen to this everyday and every time it moves me to tears. God Bless you Whitney and don't ever stop praising the Lord with your beautiful voice. Make a joyful noise unto the Lord.

  • and this was just rehersal...boy i tell u, NO ONE can sAng like Whitney...mmmmy goodness! no one does it better! her range is amazing. and then she's sittin down!!DIRECT PIPELINE FROM GOD

  • This is one awesome woman a true gift from god.

  • 3:04 just put the cherry on top wow

  • DAMN WOMAN!!!!

  • Breathtaking. This woman's voice is a testament to God's glory, power and beauty.

  • amen!

  • The Greatest Whitney of ALL!!!

  • I agree with 5andra1987 this really good I would like see more from whitney like this in the future.

  • amazing...

  • I know good music when I hear it, and this is definitely good music.

    Whitney forever!

  • Whitney was honestly singing from her heart !!!

    No performing here just speaking with her God.Beautiful!!!

  • @Jandra902 Totally agree! She was singing from her heart. She didn't make the song so technical...it felt real and like she really meant and felt what she was singing, as WHitney always does! Fantastic song, fantastic singer, fantastic rendition.

  • Simply stunning...thank you Whitney...singing about the God who has saved my life...thank you LORD.

  • The Greatest Voice of All.

  • absolutely sensational. one of the greatest live vocals ever captured. the note at 2.22 is unbelievable. great sound quality too! thanks for posting!

  • love her. Shes Amazing

  • wow! i found out during the years ive listened to whitney, she really needs to do a full gospel album, even though her voice is a lil deeper now, but it will sell , i think..

  • She did a Gospel soundtrack, The Preachers Wife Album. You should check it out if you like Whitney singing Gospel! I wish she did a Gospel album in her prime and recorded songs like This Day, Bridge Over Troubled Water, In Return, I Surrender, A Quiet Place, Amazing Grace and more...

  • Its not too late -- Whitney still has it -- I would buy a gospel album of her tomorrow. We love you.

  • this is what im talking about. i love you whitney houston

  • God know's I love this woman:)

    CHILLSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS:)

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  • HAPPY NEW YEAR PPL! GOD BLESS

  • Thnx fo the response.

  • I heard she and bobbi got married again is this true? I live in the caribbean so i guess you live in the us and would be able to better know

  • how can you hear this and say that whitney houston is not simply the best there is.

  • Whitney is simply the best! There are so much emotions in it. Makes me cry of joy! Love you, Nippy!

  • ppl keep saying this is the rehearsal version well then where is the aired version? why would they show a rehearsal of the performance on tv for this special?

  • Mcarey, a lot of studio rehearsals are taped and then used later in biography type shows, which this is from -hence the beginning of of the song. This was around the body guard movie when people were calling her performances pre-recorded or dubbed. This was her proof, that they are not.

  • There is a live performance of her doing this song, when she was in South Africa I believe. It wasn't as good, because it was one of her last songs after about 16 songs and her voice was pretty shot. It's definitely on youtube.

  • what yr was this? ppl tell me 2008!!!

  • 1992

  • Thnx fo the response. I Just wish that the whitney houston of these times here came back.. I am really looking fwd to her new album.. I wanna hear how good her come back would be.. I am a whitney supporter.. but sometimes the choices we make in life determines the road we walk for the rest of our lives.. May God help her and also hope she can go back to Him.. Help her Lord.. Its Time to come Home...

  • Thank you for sharing!!

    100 more from me!! :0)

  • the gratest singer with a voice gift from God! God bless you Ms. Whitney and we love you! You'rer on your way again to music industry and we will definitely buy your CDs!

  • my favorite

  • She is the best gift sent by God on earth! The best singer in the whole world!

  • Now she sonds like Whitney again !

  • She makes me feel love when she sings. I love you, girl. I know your album will be a killer. It's gonna rock this world. 2008 is gonna be her year! :D

  • and this is a rehersal? the best of MY generation, and im only 24!!!!!!

  • Breathe taking...

  • Don't we all ,

    need to stop judging and start loving each other on this planet. Whitney may have fallen but we can lift her back up. Such is the power of love, she lifted us, now we will lift her.

    I wish her the best in her recovery.

  • grande Whitney!!!!

  • I am happy to see there are still people who can appreciate true musicians despite what goes on in their PERSONAL LIVES!!! Whitney will come back but it is always a time and place for artists to come back successfully!!! We love you, Whitney!!! Take your time!!!

  • no one cant top her singing, sorry but she is so good

  • Whitney, Aretha, Gladys, Patti and Dionne ARE Divas in there own rights! no doubt about that. Whitney does this song so beautifully .....it's breathtaking

  • OMFG this is just a rehearsal?! O.O

  • @Doooku tell e about it

  • @Doooku Relax man this is a gospel song (Can you show a little respect?). We know Whitney is the best no need to even argue it.

  • transhurray, you are wrong! Mariah's voice and style were just patterned to Whitney's voice and style. Im sorry to say that Mariah can never be and will never copmpared to Whitney, it is a SIN! because Whitney is the Queen of all Divas in the whole world. Better to compare Mariah to Beyonce! they are both princesses!

  • jowaan, I totally agree with you!

  • My Lord!! She's too perfect for words. God Bless you, Whitney. The best. NO ONE can compare.

  • GOOD LORD! This WOMAN! UnBEATABLE! She is definitely the Queen of Song! (1st to call it :D:D)

  • There are good singers today, but none compare to this voice. Truly magnificent

  • GREAT VOICE!!!!

  • one of the best voices of all time...

  • That voice is a gift from God

  • this voice is the best! Definitely

  • Absolutely THE BEST FEMALE VOCALIST HANDS DOWN!!!

  • A power-house for vocal lovely ...what a blessing to the Lord on high on this Day.

  • yeah..exactly...aaaand, you're done.

  • gave goosebumps years ago when i first heard it. Still gives me the goosies, fabulous

  • Ummm...I vaguely remember "debating" this issue..but not enough to claim I know you, and if I blocked you, you were most likely cretinious and vexatious...incontrovertibly..­You lack aptitude to tell myself who I like and otherwise, so please..go bother someone else, because frankly, I really could not care less and I don't have to convince you of whom I'm a fan of through my FAVORITE YOUTUBE VIDEOS!..

  • mariah cannot perform live to save anyones live whitney will still give her ass pail ass a run

  • I dont feel any love in this room.

  • LoL, my God, the ignorany pawns of hypocracy are so amusing. Try and gloat your "musical ego" elsewhere.

  • End of. Go get a life and quite clearly, a hearing test.

  • I myself studied music at one of England's finest grammar schools, and one unit was "Black Gospel Across the Years" and Whitney was an extension topic, and believe me, men far more experienced than you confirmed she had a far greater range. And by great names I mean Bernard Rands. So quit trying to prove yourself right because you certainly are no Bernard Rands.

  • Yes, and you are? Point proven. Get over yourself. It doesn't take "extensive musical learning" to know how to read music, play a piano, and decipher a note. And sorry, "Black Gospel Across the Years" could never compare to growing up in the midst of real gospel, the singers, and musicians; so you can keep that tom foolery in England. Whitney's voice spans from C3-C6. Have YOU sat down and done scales with Ms.Houston? I think not, so stop being a hypocrit and do your research.

  • Oh please I have never made an detailed estimation of Whitney's scale, it is you who have had the stupidity to do so. This is over, you keep your backward opinion and I shall keep mine.

  • LoL, it's not an estimation, it's a fact. And don't be upset because you're being a hypocrite. Go "learn" about music genres you know nothing about, and yes, do keep your opinions to yourself..I'm sure no one else wants to hear them either.

  • i love opera. Whitney is the only pop singer who has high quality voice that can be compared to classical singers. She is truly a miracle.

  • Opinion statement

  • I think I must agree with you!!!!

  • You can hear her higest and lowest in a performance, but thats only one momeny in time...so any TRUE Whitney fan would not make such a generalisation. Go back to Whitney school.

  • I love Whitney to death, and this is just a general statement for all of the people making false claims to try and glorify an already amazing talent; Whitney Houston has THREE OCTAVES. Her voice spans from C3-C6, and in her earlier career she was a spinto soprano, and is now a mezzo-soprano..just so you're ALL clear.

  • Sorry but you're in no position to say for definite, you've never professionally scaled Houston's voice one-on-one. So don't go making such assumptions.

  • i heard whitney go from Bb2 (happy birthday live in 1996) to F6 (I wanna dance with somebody live in 1989) in superhead voice.

  • Whitney has went higher than F6 and even lower than Bb2. I Loves You Porgy AMA is A2 in the beginning and she has went down to a G2 before. A6/bb6 Brunei IWDWS plus C7 Revelation is Here Spain 1991, and D7/Eb7 Control 1987 NYC concert.

  • U take this pretty serious huh?....

  • Who cares about range nowadays? a good singer sends out emotions and Whitney's delivers sentiment phrase by phrase that sets in with her magnificent tone. 3 octaves 4 octaves who gives a damn now if someone wants to hear spine-chilling voices check Yma Sumac

  • extremely touching!

  • CLASS, POWER, VOICE, BEAUTY= PERFECTON! just WONDERFUL

  • Amazing

  • The greatest artist of all time. Period.

  • The singers today does not compare to this wonderful voice

  • She whistle notes plenty of times. I mean plenty. Listen to all the live IWDWS E6 and even F6 in 1996 she went up to B6 in superhead.

  • I HAVE to see this! ;D

  • Yes, without a doubt, one of the masterpieces of gospel music...Thanks Lord

  • good job! you get a 5 out fo 5 :)

  • i can't get enough of this live! It'S SO BEAUTIFULL!

    tell me can sing like this woman! tell me who

  • Whitney is the best, she put so much emotion and power in her songs. No singer today can compare to that.

  • There are good singers out there (Beyonce & Christina), but if you listen to Whitney there is no comparison

  • No one has come close to this voice today

  • Dis woman has the voice of an angel. God is not fair! All of this voice bestowed upon one person. Whitney's voice is in rare form. Im totally blown away!

  • flawless/redemptive...early-w/­love

  • Whitney Houston arguably is the absolute Prima Donna around 100 pop singing history...

  • If u listen to "O Come, O Come Emanuel" on Whitney's Last Christmas album, One Wish: The Holiday Album, U can hear how her voice has changed, but also how she's adapted to that change. It really does sound wonderful. That was the song that made me realize that she's still one of the baddest sangers ever! ;D

  • She's not the only singer who's voice is significantly lower than when they debuted Ex.: Vickie Winans (We Shall Behold Him, Long As I Got King Jesus, WE Need A Word,... Merio Winans' mother).

  • I am a HUGE Whitney, Mariah, Christina, & Celine fan (Whitney is my fav). One of the things that makes Ms. Houston stand out to me is her phrasing. She really knows HOW to sing. Even now that she doesn't have the range she did back then (she was never a 1st soprano, jus a 2nd soprano & 1st alto w/ a really nice extended range or falsetto; now she's just an alto with a nice falsetto)

  • No way! Whitney was coloratura soprano! Every note she belted from like 1986-1991 was like F5 or above in chest. Plus she has amazing head, superhead, and she can even do whistle notes easily. Top to bottom from 1982- 1994 she was coloratura soprano the highest form of soprano. From 1994 onward she became a dramatic soprano.

  • Whitney would belt mezzo soprano notes and alto notes mainly for fullness and to show her power. But her natural range is first soprano. Her speaking voice is mad squeaky high naturally. Thats a true soprano!

  • A singer like Chante More is a natural first soprano. (She can't sing lower notes as well as Mariah though). However, I've listen to several video clips of Whitney in the early 80's & have never heard anything close to a squeaky high voice come out of her. Her range was superb, but She wasn't a 1st soprano, definitely not a mezzo soprano or a coloratura soprano.

  • I've NEVER heard her do a whistle note, ever! If u can find a video, PLEASE show me, thanx! ;D

  • Brunei 1996 IWDWS its on youtube. Just type that in B6 highest note. She has hit a D7 when she sung Control by Janet Jackson in NYC 1987. Top to bottom Whitney has at least 4.5 octaves.

  • They took off the video of her sing opera, but look up in return. At the end she does her thing. Also look up do you hear what I hear. She goes pretty high

  • Watch the video of Whitney & Natalie Cole singing "I Say A Little Prayer For You" (Natalie is more of a 1st soprano than my gurl Whitney is).

  • Oh Please Whitney is a first soprano. She can belt a B5 in full voice London 1986 and annuciate every word. Natalie Cole was just screaming and Whitney hit every note, and Say Little Prayer Whitney sung way higher than Natalie. You must be talking about Bridge Over Trouble Water and she was screaming!!!

  • this performance is simply INCREDIBLE! whiney is very awesome and the best for ever!

  • whitney's best performance i know

  • I love this. Thank you.

  • She has the most beautiful voice in the world.

  • She is killin it!!! She friekn ROCKS!!! I miss the OLD Whitney!

  • The title of this song is 'This Day.' This song was originally recorded by Jennifer Holliday back in 1983 as the closing song on her debut album, 'Feel My Soul.' The song was written by Edwin Hawkins, the Father of Contemporary Gospel Music. Whitney does a wonderful job, wish she had recorded this on an LP.

  • i miss the old Whitney Houston =`[

  • Go whitney :) The best singer in the world, nothing else to say but that! Amzing vocals like always.

  • I love this woman! She's the most beautiful singer of all time! The girl can sang! I especially love this song! I have this on video tape and it gives me chills everytime I watch it! Lord bless you whitney, hope the divorce goes through smoothly!

  • Vocal technique, beauty and accomplishments aside. There is something that Whitney Houston has which NO OTHER diva possesses, and that is soul. Whitney Houston's voice comes from somewhere else, it is never "put on", never fabricated, its always genuine and that's why people are so moved by her performances. If for no other reason, this is why she is the greatest female, popular music vocalist. Period.

  • Really? I think Aretha, Patti, and Gladys would have to disagree with you. I think Whitney would, too, actually. Most black divas have soul. Especially Aretha.

  • Beautiful song. Its always a pleasure to hear a great voice. This song reminded me of the Bodyguard theme (only slightly), but love the gospel feel to this one. When her voice cracked early on, I was worried, but the rest of it was beautiful. Also loved how Whitney was directing while she sang (backup singers stop at the wave of her hand).

  • That was beautiful. I hope the Lord brings Ms. Houston back where she belongs. I pray foremost for her health and blessings to be restored.

  • AMEN

  • LMAOOOOOOOOO.

    why is it that nearly every video by Whitney, Mariah, Celine, Lara, Patti, etc has to include comments from these other diva's fans bringing their names into it??? ALL. THE. TIME.  lawd hammercy. live and let live and appreciate. unless its one of these women singing another one's own damn song, then we gotta leave their names out of it.

  • sorry, i have to disagree with you...