As music fans know, this week saw the one-year anniversary of the passing of late pop icon Whitney Houston.
To commemorate such, Billboard is collecting some of this generation’s top vocal performers to salute the diva by covering numbers from her catalog of hits. Kicking off the week-long tribute to Houston are R&B belles Chrisette Michele & Melanie Fiona.
While Michele chose to put her jazzy spin on Whitney’s up-tempo top hit ‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody’, Fiona opted to slow things down with a stirring performance of ‘One Moment In Time’. See the starlets shine below:
![Whitney Houston's 'The Concert for a New South Africa' Celebrates 30th Anniversary with Live Album Release & New Song 'Love Is' [Stream]](https://thatgrapejuice.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/whitney-concert-live-south-africa-album-2024-stream-thatgrapejuice-houston-464x260.jpg "Whitney Houston's 'The Concert for a New South Africa' Celebrates 30th Anniversary with Live Album Release & New Song 'Love Is' [Stream].")
![Stream: 'Wicked: the Movie' Soundtrack [Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum, Jonathan Bailey, & More]](https://thatgrapejuice.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/wicked-soundtrack-trailer-thatgrapejuice-cynthia-erivo-ariana-grande-464x260.jpg "Stream: 'Wicked: the Movie' Soundtrack [Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum, Jonathan Bailey, & More].")
![New Video: Jon B. - 'Natural Drug' [Starring Cynthia Bailey]](https://thatgrapejuice.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/natural-drug-video-thatgrapejuice-jon-b-2024-cynthia-bailey-464x260.jpg "New Video: Jon B. - 'Natural Drug' [Starring Cynthia Bailey].")
These are real & talented RnB singers. Of course Mary wouldn’t mention them when asked about RnB because she is now neither talented or real -_-
Kudos to Chrisette and Melanie for keeping real RnB alive
Ok enough with the Whitney tributes. The beat way these hos can tribute Whitney is to please stop butchering her songs. Ch…
More like you. H**!!!!!!!!!!!!1
1st comment is so real; im not knockin rihanna, but she is NOT r&b, y does she get that title? these girls are under-rated, its really sad…, good job ladies
Although relatively unknown in the US i would’ve loved to have seen Alexandra Burke do a Billboard tribute., also Tiffany Evans and JoJo to name a few.
These girls did good
CHRISETTE MICHELLE TONE IS AMAZING.
RIP legendary Whitney Houston
These girls are really good and have their own style. Perfect tributes, specially what they said and the vids they used. Great job
I agree with Jer; know they mean well but the only person who makes a good attempt is Jennifer Hudsen!