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  • 3:20 has to be my favorite here

  • Golden...just Golden

  • You're an ass for not uploading new stuff. Whitney's 2011 Precious Lord Take My Hand, I Look to You BET Performance with Kim Burrell. She hasn't lost her golden capabilities. She's still got it. Come on, show some love.

  • The only performance that is bound to be the BEST EVER in her career is the last one: "The Greatest Love of All"

  • If you really think this is the very best of Whitney Houston then you're completely DEAF and BLIND!!!

  • nice selections

  • which is the song at 1:04 please tell me someone !!!!

  • @ilsam28 it's A Song For You performed in hero concert, It's wonderful

  • @ilsam28 The video says it,

    A song for you

  • where can I find the performance at 3:43 mark?

  • wow, amazing video, love whitney all the way, even 2dai

  • That girl can SANG her lil behind off.....Sing Whitney, you are still the best.

  • omg @trentnjones you make awesome videos of my favorite singers! :)

  • I don't care the mishaps she's made in her life, the woman will never be stood up against. Her range, her control, her musicality, just everything about her OMG. She is and will always be a distinctive force in the music industry for the mark she has made!! I love her.

  • 7:31 she goes higher, you hear the pitch, her range is crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • who sings like this today? NO ONE. no one even sings live anymore. so...whitney is the best and LAST great live singer. love her and thankful for her. i would dare someone to post videos of katy perry or britney spears or xtina or any of them that hold candle to her live. and mariah as okay...but she had help too. aretha...whitney...ella. said and done.

  • This woman's voice is a gift from GOD!!

  • Proves that she did NOT lip sync on the Star Spangled Banner:)

  • it's sad but I find it hard to listen to her these days. It's too heart-breaking.

  • AMAZING. I'm forever a fan!

  • Incredible!!

  • Great choice of performances! :)

  • she is the best voice ever. and if anyone on here thinks they could pull off those vocal performances after 20 years...well...step up! this woman is someone who made real music with talent...and katy and gaga (props cause she loves whitney too) and miley and all..nah..they do do have that voice. sorry.

  • Much love 2 her and Bobby ive always supported them at the top of their game and thru their trials Look at them now they look great and r clean and sober they just took a wrong turn n their lives but Glory be 2 God the devil is a liar.

  • God continues to bless her and her voice shes been thru alot its called being Human but God strengthen and keep her in ur arms and she will continue to look to The Lord her and Bobby bless them both in their lives most of all their daughter

  • we all know she doesn't sound now as she did back then, but she still can sing, she just gotta find the right songs for her voice, but i wonder how she feels or how it would feel to look back and hear her what she used to be able to do with her voice and know how some ppl still expect for her to be able to do that and not being able to deliver or just to live with the fact that you cant do the things you used to be able to do...i know its gotta hurt, at least sometimes.

  • @graco79 That's profound. I wonder how she feels. Maybe that explains the relapse. Avoiding that pain.

  • @rellenoz yeah relapse right, thats why shes getting rave reviews for her new movie sparkle and sounding amazing in church right ok relapse you must of had one

  • @graco79 Everyone goes through that. If you are old, and you look back to the young years, you would miss that too, if it is the voice or not. We'll all miss something from the past.

  • @graco79 Excellent post - I wonder how she feels, myself. However, I don't believe WH has totally lost all her vocal talent. How could all of this simply be gone - poof! - vanished? I believe a great deal of her vocal ability remains within her, somewhere. WH has to go "inside" and find it. That's the next journey she needs to take. Performers have done more drugs than WH and could still perform and didn't have nearly the vocal ability of WH. But, right now - I agree w/you - has to hurt.

  • Thing was, even though I didn't buy her music in the 80s and 90s - I gravitated more towards the upbeat pop/rock sounds of Madonna, Prince, Janet & Michael, and George Michael - I nevertheless considered Whiteny's voice as the barometer for every female vocalist in the business. She had a voice that was indeed beyond comparison. Belting, crooning, and every vocal styling in between - she made it sound absolutely EFFORTLESS.

  • OKAY I LIKE MIMI AND ALL BUT IM SORRY MARIAH CAREY COULDNT SING LIKE THIS ON A PICTURE PERFECT DAY.... WHITNEY HAS RANGE AND TECNIQUE YOU JUST DONT KNOW WHAT SHES GONNA DO NEXT .. I LIKE MIMI AND ALL BUT SHE IS A SONG BIRD COMPARED TO THIS WHITNEY WHEN SHE WAS IN HER PRIME

  • A Song For You was stunning. Holy shit I'm speechless.

  • what a waste of an iconic talent! crack may be wack but it destroyed an icon!

  • does anybody have the link for the first video !!!!?

  • her voice is just.. wow.. extremely versitile... no 1 will ever have that.. never her range and versitility.. when u sing pop, r&b, and a pavarotti performance and freestyle and sing in opera and steal the show.. you don't have talent, you have a gift from heaven... not to mention,. none one ever came close to star spangled banner like her... but.. she truly had It All.

  • Wow... it's a shame that you didn't put her performance of The Star-Spangled Banner at the 25th Superbowl, in 1991. WHAT a performance! All my favorite performances of her are in this video, and for that, I thank you! :)

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  • fantastic! her voice will never be what it was before the drugs killed it, but maybe if she stays off them and works with what she's got left, maybe she can have the kind of change elton john did in his later career. many people like his voice even more now than when he was young. if whitney realizes she can't hit the big high notes anymore and embraces her lower timbre, moving forward would be much easier. elton john had a huge career even after his voice went through the 'change'

  • @flobtheblob GOD! I wish people would quit saying things like drugs killed her voice!! Yes drugs played a part, but her voice would likely have declined even without drug use. That's because of the fact that Whitney was not trained, she sang from her soul and unfortunately ended up abusing her voice. As you know she gave 150% at every live performance year after year since 1985. I'm guessing it was a trade off. Sing properly and save her voice, or belt it out and give us the "voice"

  • @tamagoatama602 this isn't true. you can' t use your mixed voice the way she did without knowing what you're doing. her voice was trained well beyond most amateurs. there is never a hint of hoarseness in her voice through all of her prime years. i dismiss claims that she used improper technique. i've never heard better technique, actually. starting IMMEDIATELY when her voice started its decline, Whitney began a regime of smoking crack laced pot.

  • @flobtheblob You act like you were right there when she was holding the pipe. You don't know what the hell Whitney was doing or when she was doing it. You just like to do a lot of talking without knowing what the fuck you're talking about. My point was only that I wish people wouldn't just attribute her voice decline to drugs ALONE.

  • @tamagoatama602 i act like i was there because she has described it i MUCH detail. her voice and technique were flawless...that is UNTIL she started hitting the crack-laced pot. she admits that. her words, not mine. you're a fool if you think technique could have EVER resulted in her voice being what it is today when she shows nothing but near flawlessness in her early performances. its like blaming a mouse for wrecking a room when there's a elephant in the room.

  • @tamagoatama602 and yes, i KNOW what the HECK i'm talking about. you resorting to vulgar language in a public forum only furthers my evidence of that. hows this? how about you take ANY video of whitney in her early days and pick a stop where she is employing vocal technique that could have shattered her voice in the way that it has? you won't be able to. however...smoking crack EVERYDAY...now that COULDN'T have been the cause. haha...and I'M the one who doesn't know what they're talking about :)

  • @flobtheblob You're absolutely right. Lots of Gospel artist are still singing their butts off well into their 60's. I smoked crack and lost my voice for a couple years. When I stopped, my voice came back after a few months. I never regained my full range though. She needs to lay off the cigs and relearn how to sing. @tamagoatama602

  • @rellenoz You lost your voice for a couple of year. That's nice but she lost her voice for nearly 13 years.

  • @iloveabba91 13 years?!! You must be crazy - she still had the voice back in 2004 at the WMAs!!

  • @Mplaehner Of course with that voice in 2004, she could out-sing every single singer of the new generation that day. But to be THE VOICE, THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME, THE UNMATCHABLE her voice is not since 1998.

  • @tamagoatama602 anyone who knows anything about coke knows that only mild use damages tissue. she was SMOKING it. i've heard 'coke voices' from addicts i know personally....they don't sing, but there is no mistaking the rasp....and there's no mistaking it in whitneys voice. she admits to using 2 of the worst drugs you can use when your a singer and she did it for more than a decade on a daily basis. to say it was technique i think is largely misplaced. her voice would have naturally lowered

  • @tamagoatama602 in timbre, but she likely would have kept the same range and clarity without the drugs. she like would have only seen mild change in her voice due to her power singing....which when the microphone is removed, is less power singing and more perfect resonance. but we will never know for sure. she admits to the drug use and the drug of choice...which easily could have done her voice in completely...but she doesn't comment on how it actually effected her voice. guess we'll never know

  • @flobtheblob Oh so I guess you know every f-ing thing and can't "nobody tell you nothing" right?? Well Mr. Know It All, it is a well known fact that she had not been vocally trained when she started her career. She developed her voice in the church choir. She started trying to rehab her voice after developing nodules FROM IMPROPER USE!!! Since you're so hardheaded do a google search on "what happened to Whitney Houston voice" the first entry is an unbiased view of an expert. then shut up!

  • wowowowow

  • you now whats really funny though is that the only person that really really comes close to her singing tone and power is debra wilson the one on mad tv.but we all know whitney takes it far more serious

  • Beautiful.

  • How can you get that I'm every woman live? Please tell me soon. I want it so much. Thnak you thank you.

  • Wow. That clip of her doing My Man from Funny Girl is amazing! I've never seen that. That ranks up there with her performance of One Moment in Time that was LIVE...I think, at the AMA's or the Grammy's.

  • It has been said your only as good as your LAST HIT !

  • 1:34 = MY GOD!!!!

  • grrrr,, my god she's the best !!!

  • For the 2 idiots who put a dislikes down on here...you'd better recognize. this is the diva and will always be the diva. putting the other divas that came before here aretha, diana, donna summer, in categories by themselves....whitney raised the bar for any female singer in her genre that came after her...that includes Mariah. I suspect lambs have come over here disliking this.

  • the best

  • How can you even compare Mariah to "The Voice" It should be a law......

  • ARE YOU SERIOUS?

    That note @ 1:34 is INSANNNNNEEEEEEEE

    LOVE HER!

  • brill

    

  • absolutely wonderfull!!!! DEFFFFF one of my favourite videos

    Thank you so much!!!!!!

  • the only thing missing is how will i know from the 86 ama's my fav

  • she is the absolutely best

  • If she could do this today she would be in the news every day of the week.....don't get mad at me..just keeping it real....

  • whitney houston is the best female singer that has ever lived.

  • Well...you left out one of her best songs....."How will i know"........

  • In my opinion, the word "always" defines Whitney....She will always be anywhere there's music, emotion, worth...and superlative...

  • Now is WH nothing...

  • wow

  • Wow!!! She was a phenomenal performer!

  • i can't watch this enough. Whitney is my girl. wish her well!!!

  • the 8 th wonder of the world,,love her

  • There won`t be ever a singer like Whitney Houston

  • I wish I could find a complete version of her singing Quiet Place - that's the ultimate Whitney video on youtube but it cuts off in the middle. If anyone has it, please reply to this message and let me know.

  • This was great, she have or had a beautiful voice I think most singers when they get older there voice changes. I just hope she get her life together for her and her daughter sake.

  • WHITNEY revenez-nous avec cette voix mémorable je vous ai vu lors de vos concerts et vous m'avez fait peine

  • Precisa dizer alguma coisa?, não , não precisa. Whitney SHOWWWWWWWWW

  • Precisa dize r akguma coisa?

    Não, não Precisa. Whitney SHOWWWWWWWWWWWW.

  • Newark's finest :)

    What a legend.

  • best singer in the world! Whitney Houston

  • What a motherfucking voice !!! I love this woman !!!

  • If Whitney released "Whitney Live the best of:" she could retire tomorrow because it would be the best selling live album in history...put that bomb cut of "I will always love you" that was featured in this video. Even if I have to go to Donald Trump and beg for 2 billion crumpets or sell a derivative or plug up the BP oil spill and with the proceeds buy every copy I will make it the #1 selling live album that is what she means to me and I need ya'll out there to know that honey!

  • @rodneyj2 Chile I'm in tears. On the floor chile...chile which Whitney wigs do you wear?the bob. Or the so emotional curly do?what bout the French roll or the look when she wears the head band and the wig,I give it up to Ellin doing her wigs cause she can get her wigs in French rolls with out showing her edges now that takes talent chile whew

  • @jamardjk

    I guarantee or is it guarantoo that you...honey chile could not be as low on the flo' as I am right now in tears...baby the world bettah git usta the fact that as quiet as it is kept it is ALL about dat french roll...always has been and always will be. I don't care how technoologee improves sweet diva me and my house will always be impartial to a fresh out of the box synthetic hair wig and a John Travolta circa "staying alive" headband now you girls get wit dat!

  • @rodneyj2 Chile just close the front door chile.I know you lived for Whitney .I just saw one of you videos chile where you had that hard press and go. Chile I thought it was whitneys twin,you keep it right and tight chile. Whew

  • Why was her face always greasy?! :P

  • @tipofmytongue1024

    Her forehead sweats because she wears a lot of wigs and they are hot.....trust me speaking from experience...so it appears greasy on film...I wish she would get Janet Jackson's stylist and invest in either single strand fusion or lace front wigs they breathe so much better!!!!!

  • @rodneyj2 chile now people on youtube are giving hair tips.......chile

  • @jamardjk

    I know right everybody has got a way to make everybody else's life better right...LOL but this is indeed a laugh I needed honey chile!

    Peace.

    R.

  • @jamardjk

    I really needed this laugh thank you so much boo!

  • I think she was even better live than in the studio!! She just totally let loose live!!

  • Thank you so much for this video.. she is the best!!!

  • This was all live. There are some performances even better than some of these that are on this clip. She was untouchable. When Whitney was at her very best, she was the best.

  • simply a great talent... IMO not only the best female singer.. but probably one of the top 3  singers of all time.....

  • @alienbusa - I like Shirley but please. Lets be sensible.

  • Perfeito o vídeo. Mostra bem qual é a melhor voz que já existiu no mundo. Whitney Houston, symple the best. Fuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

  • Why didn't they use the original Superbowl National Anthem?  It was so much better even thought that one was flawless!

  • no. one moment in time!

  • @DonSelwashington yea good point! I think that performance was probably her best ever!

  • great video......she is and will always be the best in the my book.

  • nobody will ever be able to do what she does with her voice......

  • I will always love YOU, Whitney!

  • great video, but the best performance of GLOA was the one in "this is my life" in 1992 (IMHO)

  • The first song she sings on here...her voice is just amazing...her voice is always amazing...its a pity that she cant sing like she used to....I still love her! and she's sooo pretty...=)

  • the one and only Whitney Houston !!!!!! thanks for sharing !!!

  • and this is why the nation gave her the title of 'the voice'.

    She truly had a voice that could wake up the dead - i saw Whitney in her glory - 'Moment of truth Tour '88' and there has never been a singer that came close to that concert.

  • goosebumps!!

  • this is the best whitney houston complilation i have seen on utube. Congrats...and yes there will not be another whitney houston this era...period. all the singers today should stop and take notice. Without whitney houston topping the charts, the talent pool today is now talentless.

  • @PrinceNippy When your comeback album hits #1 its first week and goes double platinum a few months after...........I don't think so.

  • one word AMEN. i rest my case

  • best singer of all time?? hahaha....yea right.  2 words: Shirley Bassey....look her up

  • It's so sad that she lost her voice. :'( She was the best singer in the WHOLE WORLD! There's no one better than her. :( Look at todays ''stars'', Lady Gaga, Katy Perry etc.. They are talentluss. Look at Miley Cyrus. :S Yurk, it's horrible! Whitney Houston, she was the best singer. No one will ever be better than her. She has something special, so sad that she ruined it. :( :( :( :'( :'(

  • Whitney Houston - the voice, the diva, the best singer of all time<3

  • Her voice was best during the Bodyguard. She was always good, but you can hear the growth and maturity in her early 90's stuff. It's was a richer sound. Then, she started smoking & it was all down hill from there.

  • I think she had her prime between 1987-1992. But when I hear her sing live in 1999, it's damn good that too...

  • Kudos to the person who compiled and posted this. Great Job!

  • her voice was much purer before marriage.

  • did anyone else realize that at 3:58-4:16, she was using a backing track and was lipsynching it, but then started singing again?

  • yeah, she was lipsynching the highest notes of that part!

    luckily she almost never does that, she's great :D

  • whitney never lipsed in her live performances sorry for u

  • im not the only one who noticed.

    and if u paid attention instead of jumping to the defensive, u would have seen it too.

  • she lips bridge IEW, but she often even doesn't try to imitate that she really sings this))

  • and what?

  • BRING BACK MY DEAR WONDERFUL WHITNEY...!

    come on whtney..

    x gv up !..

    we still love u..4ever we always love u ..!

  • the really sad thing about watching this is she'll never sound this way again...so so sad that someone with that much talent would ruin it forever...

  • You know Chaka's voice survived (maybe was restored) after years of drug abuse...maybe (hopefully) whitney's voice will return to it's former brilliance.

  • @cdjblue52 i agree after seeing her 2011 hitting the high notes with easy shes getting her voice back slowly but it's coming back.

  • amen++++++++++

  • wow whitney sang "i am not going" better than jennifer hudson! or anyone for the that matter.

  • There will never be another Whitney Houston. She is Legendary, Respect!

  • Too bad we will never again hear this kind of singing from her...sad

  • I hear you; it's hard for me not being able to match her voice now with her face (I keep thinking it can't be her), but I'm assuming it must be even harder for her and yet she was strong enough to come back - so I bow before that

  • to me, you can still tell its her..her voice was just higher when she was younger and easier to hit notes. now her voice has changed some, but i think she sounds good still

  • it's cos it takes a lot of energy to sing the way she does. it's like an exercise! she's awesome

  • She's a talented woman but DANG she has sweating issues XD

  • Stupid asshole, stop bother here, you hater, go listen Lennox, who NEVER had voice...

  • Whitney is simply "the voice",,,,

  • you mean WAS...

  • SIMPLY...THE NUMBER ONE!!!!!!!!

  • "One moment in time", and "didn't we almost have it all" didn't make it :(

  • Thank you Trent 4 this, it really does justice to Whitney and I loved it, id have chosen the same performances (id take Im every woman out tho, a lot of lipsync) and some more, of course. No one can take that away from her and our history, her thrilling voice is only one in a billion. Love I look 2 u, btw, peace and love. Thanx 2 Cissy 2!!

  • I've fallen in love her once again!!!!

  • she was absolutely the BEST, I get tears when I hear her new release, it is so sad, but God bless her and I am glad she is back!

  • wow....no-one came close before or after, but how tragic how she sounds now........

  • no doubt.....

  • All prodigiously talented people have tragic lives. It just seems to be the way. God blesses them with amazing talent, but denies them a stable mind.

  • Madonna has a stable mind and the highest grossing concert of any solo artist in history that takes a lot of mental, physical and spiritual stability. Although, I can really see where your coming from, I don't know if talented people have more issues than others or some prodigiously blessed individuals use it in their art and some allow it to destroy them. Maybe it is the suffering that allows artist like myself to be more in tuned with the human condition who knows?

  • Madonna is not a prodigy. Whitney was a vocal genius. Madonnna is good at marketing and taking her clothes off and being a slut, but there is nothing prodigious about her musically.

  • Well first off all at the end of the day it goes back to the old adage : "Everybody has an opinion and they all ..." but for the sake of debate, throughout history from Marilyn Monroe to even Britney spears there are a LOT of performers who were excellent at taking off their clothes and some who even subsidized their careers by being professional call girls, or being "available" for the exploits of executives of major movie studios; who are not where Madonna is today...she is the TRUTH!

  • Madonna is a very smart businesswoman and knows what people want. That is why she has been able to re-invent herself so many times. That is what separates her from other sluts like Britney. But Madonna doesn't show amazing talent in one of the following areas - Singing, instrument playing or songwriting. Bob Dylan was a genius songwriter, Whitney Houston was a genius singer and Stevie Wonder was a genius instrument player. Madonna is a genius of nothing musically.

  • Other geniuses - Paul McCartney, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Jimi Hendrix, Aretha Franklin. I'm sorry but in terms of musical talent, Madonna doesn't compare to these people. But she has a better business savy than most of them. That is her talent - Marketing and understanding how to adapt to changing times.

  • i completely agree with u. madonna has no noticeable talent she is an ok dancer but she isnt a genius like michael jackson.

    all she is good at is marketing herself off...she is a bussiness genius.

  • How does this make her a great singer, though?

  • wow you are incredibly right,

  • 7:30 and 9:06 are some of the greatest notes ever. Even though there are many great high notes (from Whitney of course), I really like these ones because it's special....

  • doshus43, If you're unhappy with the fact that she just "throws around her voice" then Stop listening to her "throw" around her voice. Go else where and listen to people whose voice stays in one place.

  • @doshus43 Mate are you deaf?? Stupid mariah fanboy

  • @Venturor YESSSSSSSSSS I LOVE MARIAH................SHE SINGS BETTER THAN THAT CRACK FEEN WHITNEY

  • this is why I love her so :-)

    there aint NO ONE like my QUEEN Whit<333

  • Whitney's voice is "Simply Divine"

  • Whitney Houston should be the only one called a "DIVA" It's not just about her voice. It's about the way she stands on a stage, and the way she walks. SHE'S MUSIC ROYALTY.

  • WELL DONE!!!!

  • give her time, I think she may have a chance even though she doesnt have to prove us a thing..she will always be the best

  • Where is this Whitney? Please come back!

  • she is bac

  • no she's not not like this

  • Man thank you for posting this, I came close to crying or something on "A Song For You" at the 1:35 mark. I'm just flabbergasted, seriously, how do you even reach that depth, let alone hold it - and then go even better at the end?! Amazing, just amazing....

  • :( she was amazing...

  • Simply amazing. I miss this Whitney.