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  • smoking cigarettes made her lose that girly high voice she had during the early 90's about 98 is when her voice was very deep but 1999 she. Was starting to get it back but then went into the drugs heavy which damged her voice so but give her a year or two she'll be back to singing with her 1999 divas voice!

  • If God wants Whitney's voice will come back.

  • Nippy... look at the Wonder that you are! Why don't you come back to this???? I loved you so much... once!!!

    Drug is a shit!

  • @pasticciotta what you seem to ignore is that she was doing drugs back then. whitney is healthier now than she has been for the past 15 years, so take it as it is!

  • @pasticciotta

    I read that Whitney had nodules removed from her cords in 2007 which led to her lack of voice now. Looking back, it is believable---even here in 2004 she had more voice than she did in studio for "I Look to You". I've also read that she has had some oral surgery, which too is believable as the corners of her mouth have an upturned look that wasn't there before her re-emergence. In any event, "the voice" is gone, and no amount of wishing by devoted fans will bring it back.

  • @direfranchement Actually, you're correct, although, only partially correct. Whitney's voice was lost during the Bodyguard soundtrack/touring. She was in such high demand she developed nodes, and had surgery then. That's when we heard a dramatic change in her sound & we could hear the hoarse sound, even though she kept singing very well that way for a long time. Over the time, to my understanding, she's had many vocal surgeries...but, it was the BG touring that started all this, not drugs.

  • @stevie586

    Whitney's voice was far from "lost" during the Bodyguard era. Though her voice did begin to coarsen during the BG (with that much wear and tear from touring, not surprising), the change wasn't "dramatic" as she was still vocally recognizable. In 2010, Whitney Houston had no singing voice at all---she talked her way through most of her performances and was booed across the world, angering fans who felt they had wasted their money on tickets.

  • @direfranchement When I say "lost", I mean, her voice, itself, went down dramatically. Even during BG, you could hear how deep it was becoming, and she struggled during many performances, for reasons obvious to us both. Whitney was so phenominal she sang through all this, but he voice was going down, and fast. I do get your point, though. It saddens me, because, myself, and the world are dying to hear that wonderful voice again...too bad it's just a dream...

  • @direfranchement Whitney wasn't booed on her tour - the media made that up. The only time she was mass booed was once when she took a costume change and they wanted her back! Please don't believe the rumours :)

  • @direfranchement she obviously had major oral surgery her teeth look completely her speech change due to the oral surgery her entire mouth looks diiferent from 90s Whitney Houston.

  • Nippy... look at the Wonder that you are! Why don't you come back to this???? I loved you so much... once!!!

  • Whitney gives me chills, wow!

  • I FREAKIN LOVE WHITNEY

  • whitney sounds and looks like her cousin!!! and i heard when dey went flat too both of them 2:15 but its all good doe!!!!!!!

  • Dione e Whitney são incriveis.

  • Thank you all from the bottom of my <3

  • Aw...that was the Whitney I used to know,the one with VOICE,unlike now,shame on her.Dionne might be old,but the power of her voice it's amazing!!!

  • Whitney is so tall in this video.

  • Dionne can sing, you no nothing about singing or music! I love Whitney but this is Dionne's song.

  • Dionne is Whitney's cousin and her entire family can sing. Of course Whitney is the better singer but Dionne is quite a singer in her own right. But based on your crass and crude comment I see your intelligence level is very low. I think you are too young to even appreciate Dionne's work. The songs she recorded are viewed as the "standards," by which to be judged. Go listen to Alfie, Don't Make Me Over, Walk on By, etc. I don't think even Whitney herself would appreciate your comments.

  • So why did Dionne Warwick become the world's most famous singer at her prime, if she was so..s**** like you said?

  • LOLOLOLOL!!

  • worst pianist...!! whitney will look like the aunite Deone wen she ages,,

  • Who was the piano player?

    I don;t think I've ever heard anything so bad.

    I'm amazed that the ladies did not stop singing, what courage it took for them to keep singing..

    Wonder how many gigs he was asked to play after this show?

  • they should have went over to the piano player and pushed him off the stool like robert townsend did on the five heartbeats, and sang accapella like they use to do in the tunnel lol

  • I wonder who got fired that night - would have liked to have been a fly on the wall backstage!

  • I could see it in Whitney's face that she was upset with the piano player. He must be deaf..

  • Awesome

  • Diva Forever!

  • dude on the keys is way off.

  • sounds like an octopus is playing the piano

  • @bigjoetube hahahahaha

  • Linda música da Dionne Warwick, adoro e ouço todos os dias. Esse som é apaixonante!!!

  • OMG....I know i know nobody better not be talking about LUther..Luther...is the best...He voice is so rich and beautiful...luther is music...if u dont think luther can sing, u need to read, "music for dummies 101"

  • He's dead.

  • Dionne Said "Now I give this heffa this mic and she take over my song lol, give me back my damn mic lol", do it Whitney!!!!!

  • I think I've just seen the best performance that Witney has done this decade! Thank you to both of them for a wonderful version of this song!

  • Haha this is actually a pretty impressive vocal, go check out Whitney's Performance of IDKMOS if you haven't checked it out already, that's an impressive vocal for Whitney

  • stupid bitch that one standing behind Dionne and talking whilst she sung...

    Dionne had to turn to her in a polite way to shut her...

  • Come on Dionne give her the mic. She takes the song to other levels and she is also holding these awards. But she is still great.

  • without Stevie it`s not great...

  • And Luther.

  • Luther is just the grotty compensation of Elton John...I don`t know, what peaople like about him much, he is the worst singer of the quartet and incredibly uncongenial....

    so I´m not bothered that he`s not there...and you can`t compare Stevie Wonder with Luther

  • OMG! Luther has the voice of an angel. He sings with so much passion and has his own unique style. Many people agree with me, so i suggest you shut your mouth. If you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all.

  • this is a free channel and if you don`t agree with somebody, you don`t need to cry darling...

    PS: Luther IS the most boring singer of the four...that`s fact...

    peace

  • You can express your opinion without being rude. You're an idiot.

  • If I`m an idiot, then you are a bigger idiot!!

    :D looser...

  • Now you're just pathetic. Go away and Die!

  • No, if say such evil things, it`s not fair!

    ;(

  • OMG! You must be a child, or you must have the brain of a child.

  • on you go dionne

  • HAHA.. funny.

  • an unforgetable moment !

    It happens only once in our life time!

    Thks!

  • Dionne Had better took that damn mic from whitney when whitney hit that note it look like dionne said oh shit never mind lol.

  • that wasnt 'oh shit' face, that was 'oh wow' face!

  • Either way she better not have let Whitney song it because she know that Whitney was fixing to do the damn thang!!! Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee's BAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­aaaaaack!!!

  • biiiig time!!!

    ooooh whitney i wanna run to you! haha

  • The majority of good musics were to be created till 80´s

  • Sometimes the most brilliant artistic moments are the more impromptu ones like this. Just beautiful : )

  • I agree. I also miss Michael Jackson so much. He had a beautiful heart for others. People need to just love one another and forgive one another. Life is so short.

  • Esta música é linda

  • Genteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ...o q posso escrever ?

    Definitivamente Whitney manda muito!

    Vai ser segura no q faz ...lá longe!

    Ela sabe q arrenta!

  • Mamma mia,che splendore!

  • The Queen! Diva of Black Pop Music

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  • Had Dionne not taken the microphone out of Whitney's face in 2:55, Whitney would have still been holding that FOOOOOOOORRR note right at this very moment!! She is the greatest!

  • At that moment, it look like she reverted back to the days when she was a little girl singing in church in NJ. She had a sparkle in her eye.

  • I agree... whitney rocks and I hope U have the new album on order! haha

  • I love Dionne's voice in this video ! Gorgeous !

  • The lady in the back ground just had an orgasm as whitney hit the vocal climax...you could see it on her face...I swear!!!

  • lol! I would too!

  • @BlaaZAh haha i noticed that two lol

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  • I closed my eyes as Whitney sang, and God that was identical - if not even better than - how she sounded like in the late 90s. This woman just continues to surprise you one time after another.

  • Momentos como este é que a certeza da beleza da vida

  • preety black... whitney

  • Nobody compares to Whitney voice wise.

  • Dionne must had lost her damn mind you put a microphone and front of whitney face and dont thank whitney finta tear the song up you crazy, it was about to be dionne who?

  • Whitney almost stole the show!

  • i love how dionne suddenly wisks the mic away during a note like "ok dats enough of you damnit!" lolz

  • i love you whitney!!

  • at 2:52 does that woman behind whittaz say "great"..?

  • I think that woman had an orgasm when Whitney sang lol

    Oh yeah, Whitney sounds really great.

  • lols i'm pretty sure she did =p

  • I wished Dionne and Whitney record a song together. That was so beautiful.

  • that note whitney hit, was 1994 whitney it was great what are you guys talkin about it was flawless

  • yeah ..you can see the look on whitneys face when she goes to hit the high note and it's kinda raspy and she just can't seem to get it to stick.....she tried to make the transition...usually it pops and she gets it and here it wouldn't go. didn't open up like normal. LOVE WHITNEY THOUGH and even here is the best singer ever!! AGREE WITH THE PIANO!! I wouldn't smacked his ass and sent him packing. NOT cool!!

  • at like 2:12 whitney sounds a mess. her voice is gone too . she's gonna have to sing in her lower register. she still sounds good but not those higher notes like before.

  • She is in her 40s. You expect her to sound like she did 25 years ago?

  • no i dont but i expect for her not to sound like that especially when ur whitney houston and not briteny spears. patti labelle is in her 60's and sound better than ever.

  • better than ever?

  • if not better than ever not far from her best.

  • i know it was a great whitney moment

  • Well, as a trained singer with an ear, it was far from her best, but, her best was so amazing, anything "mediocore" from her still sounds amazing. Acutally, what's really going on here is, when we sing a whole song, we hold back to endure the song. Here, Whitney has Dionne to back her up, so, she doesn't have to hold back on her parts. So, she let us have it, and I LOVE it! A bit sharp on a few parts, but hey, we are hearing Whitney not messing up, in 2004, and I love her for giving it 2 us!

  • very well said, nobody cud of said it better

  • Whitney still sounded good here in 2004. From 2004-2006 ruined her voice totally..  All the drug use. If her voice is back to 1998-1999 era I'd be happy. Wonder she sounds now after the laser surgery on vocal cords...

  • when did she get lazer surgery? what year?

  • Sometime in 2008. I'm hoping after the Kazahkstan concert where she sounded like crap. lol. Notice the brown blemish at the bottom of her neck where vocal cords are in close up pics. That wasn't there in prev. yrs pics. Sign of healing/scaring from surgery.

  • I mean in current 2009 up close pics of her face/neck area. You will see that blemish/scaring area. Then check prev. years pics and it's not there. =)

  • Thats not a scar from laser surgery on her vocal chords. It's a scar from her childhood. When she was little, she was playin with a clothes hanger, and it went down her thoart. It tore some tissue and she bled alot but thankfully the doctors saved her. So yes that scar has been there a long time.

  • I was wondering what he was on about because I know she had that scar for ages, I've seen it since she was a model which are some of the youngest pics we have of her!!!

  • Yeah no problem. I was a little bit lost as well when I read it but glad to be of service. Us WF have to stick together and keep the records straight.

  • I know you right!(:

  • :) yes

  • That person playing the piano is WAY too busy for his own good. So annoying when the band tries to outshine the performers.

  • Whitney is Wonderful!! at least was!!! I love her... Great song and with Dione better...

    Whitney Fexoooooooooooo

  • Whitney's out of tune actually

  • for a second she was... but she was great through all of it really. out of tune in the begining maybe, but whitney is just great

  • the pianist was sooooooooooo annoying.. lol

  • Whitney was bloody amazing here!Just listen to the audience when she is singing!

  • I want to stick my penis in your butt hole and urinate.

  • Dionne quit smnoking.. she sounds better now. She did this song last year in Instanbul, Turkey and sounds better than here. =)

  • hrhsam, with all due respect to Dionne, it wouldn't have mattered if she was 15, Whitney was going to upstage her..Dionne is a legend, but Whitney has sold hundreds of millions of records for a reason..

  • never pass Whitney the mic unless you want to get seriously upstaged...i love pre-crack whitney...would have been the greatest of all time

  • True, although Dionne is 65 here.

  • even on here, whitney's voice seemed like it was in a higher pitch? or is it just me? nice to see all the ladies sharing a wonderful moment, and it's nice seeing one of my favorite skaters katarina witt from germany:)

  • no intention of saying something bad, because i am a huge dionne fan.. but she seems to be out of breath and having difficulty singing here?

  • you must not know how old she is and how much she smoked in her life? Check whitney out in about 20 years...see what you say about her then :)

  • well, i know that she is a smoker or was it was a smoker already, and this was in 2004 dionne was 64 then..

  • WOW...I love Dionne and Whitney sounded great! Yes, they stole the show and sounded fantastic! I am waiting for Whitney to get back out there and share her voice with us once again now that she's supposedly gotten her life together.

  • wow that was great...some of the other women loked pretty pissed cos they like took the show away

  • Amazing :)

  • 2:50-2:56 OMG EPIC moment!!

  • it´s a giving-me-chills moments!

  • LOL. I know you right.....4words: "WISH I WAS THERE"

  • The profile of Dick Cheney at the end of this song is fucked up.

  • whitney is the best the reason i only watched this video was to hear whitney sing NOT dionne

  • me too! lol

  • me three!! lol

  • Even though this song did first come out in the "Whitney Houston era", it was Dionne's biggest hit of her career! Dionne should get first billing! Besides, Whitney's voice hasn't aged as well as Dionne's! I love both Dionne and Whitney, but we need to confess sometimes.

  • well I agree, Dionne's voice has aged pretty well and I will always give her more credit for this song no matter how much I love whit!!

  • Dionne sounded mature and wonderful. Whitney looked fantastic!

  • go head whitney.

  • piano player spoils it

  • Agreed, he was just playing a bunch of notes like a maniac--not playing for their voices.

  • lol your so right maniac

  • the background noise spoils it

  • the audience only applause for whitney not dionne,i think whitney voice was still good in 2004

  • Yea, I think Whitney did a great job, maybe its a sign of good things to come. I cant wait for her new album...

  • whitney blew it away i luv dis song

  • It's priceless. just wonderful. I can feel family love and some kind of reminisce in both of them...it seems like they're going back in the past where whitney did her back vocals..they traveled in time.Dionne was a super star and she still shining in a differente way, back she was a hurricane now she's a summer breeze, not so strong but still wonderful.

  • they blow dat song on i she keep playin it omg its the sh**!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Dionne should have just let Whitney finish the song.

  • haha so true

  • OMG, when Dionne smiles at Whitney after Whitney joins in... it's just so precious and priceless!!!

  • 5039452,

    Shut up! Try being in this business for as long as Dionne and be superb every time you get on stage. Its not going to happen. At least she's had a wonderful, prosperous career! And yes, they are cousins.

  • Look I adore Dionne. Whisper in the Dark is my favourite song of all time. Thing is though, every artists voice starts to go as they get around her age. I was a paying customer that night. I saw her and I have the right to my opinion. You weren't there so you can't pass judgement. It was so bad it made the local press for being bad.

  • power cousins! ageless song...superb singers!

  • oh yeh they are cousins!

  • i saw this on television (i am german) and i have been in munich at soul divas. i saw whitney. and it was soooooooooo amazing! i love you whitney

  • Whitney is the best

  • Dionnes voice gets more beautiful with age like wine almost

  • I don't think so. I saw Dionne live in AUstralia about five months ago. She was atrocious!! Everyone was very disappointed after the show. her voice was cracking through the whole show. She was off key in places and forgot the words in at least three songs!

  • thats very funny

  • Song isnt the same without Stevie

  • damn piano guy screwed this up. Too fast for my liking. This song is good drawn out slowly.

  • I hope the good Lord continues to bless them both with health and happiness :-D

  • The greatest Whitney has sounded in almost a decade. Despite some signs of life during recent performances, I'm hoping she can get back to this level of quality.

  • beautiful

  • Whitney still has the gift of song

  • no one will replace whitney

  • This was the beginning of the comeback! She was first recovering and showing she is still "The Voice"

    Whitney looked so beautiful here, but the Jane Fonda esc. hairstyle isn't my favorite. I love her with the hairstyle like she had at the MTV Awards.

  • she could have been a model or a singer - lucky girl

  • well she was a model for a while and she's always been a singer, real live singer, he best Whitney!

  • im teary :((

  • I love this, its gives me goose bumps. it was at a time when i thought whitney wouldnt sing again, and this blew everyone away

  • ftp

  • 2:47- 2:54 Look at the Woman Behind Whitney U can see the flood gates open look how she just teared up so quickly

  • Yes, this woman is one of our best german actresses called Iris Berben. You can really see that she's impressed by Whitney's voice.

  • did'nt she play in that movie with will smith and tommy lee jones?

  • dos angeles de la cancion..