Here's the full high quality LONDON version. She unleashes the FULL WEIGHT of her operatic grandeur and gospel power. It is a true vocal spectacle that NO-ONE can top. This version is a bit slower and more dramatic than the California version. Cheers and Merry Christmas🎅🎄 m.ua-cam.com/video/8cGssiOAw-U/v-deo.html
God kissed this woman's throat. Whitney was an absolute Vocal Titan, incomparable. She will go down in history as the greatest singer of all-time. Michael The King, Whitney The Queen & Prince The Prince. The G.O.A.T.
@@Sperm_monkey I'm a massive Madonna fan but C'mon bro. Madonna and Whitney are only comparable in terms of record sales, and being 2 WOMEN in the world of popular music. That's IT. Whitney was a true blue vocalist and Madonna is a pop provocateur with a penchant for genius marketing skills and knowing how to cherry pick the right collaborators to provide her with the perfect sound and backdrop to stay at the top of her game. It makes more sense to compare Madonna to Janet than Whitney.
I'd put Dimash on the contention list for greatest singer of all time. He's got a fantastic set of pipes. EDIT: Please note, this is not meant to shit on Whitney. She was a fantastic vocalist as well. However, Dimash has been evaluated by dozens of professional coaches and vocalists and they've all said he's objectively one of the best singers of all time. If you don't like his voice or his techniques, that's fine, but objectively his talent is next level (and so was Whitney's).
This woman in her prime was a vocal ASSASSIN! who on earth can sing that powerfully LIVE, with such precision and control?? absolutely NOBODY! she was a vocal warrior, a superhero. WHITNEY, MICHAEL JACKSON, MICHAEL JORDAN, AND PRINCE ARE THE BLACK VERSION OF THE AVENGERS! they all had otherworldly super human talents. they can never be replaced, EVER.
Darius Burns yeeeaaahh. Every chance I get I play this performance for people who either haven't heard it, or who have any doubt in their mind that her voice came from another universe/planet/dimension. this performance is proof lol. she makes Jennifer hudson and Jennifer holiday look like bad American Idol auditioners in comparison. they both need to hear this so they can put a gun in their mouths and pull the trigger. this erases every performance they've ever done haha.
many underestimated her technical abilities without any knowledge regarding singing pedagogues but what they didn't know is that whitney was actually technically refined. in this vocals alone, she showed multiple dynamic skills, an immense breath support and stamina, vigorous head voice, connected range, a resonant mid and upper mix, extreme agility and a good musicality. general public sucks
she does not use mixed registration. She sings in a coordinated chest voice, swelling her head voice into the core chest sound as she ascends! mIXED REGISTRATION GIVES A THIN, METTALIC , WHINY SOUND. Whitney had a big, fat , bold high belt because she made sure there was chest at the core of her sound!. No ugly, noise voices like all the celebrated modern singers have. They all sound ugly and metallic up there because of their underdeveloped core which is chest voice..
The interaction between her voice and the piano is just incredible. It’s like they are fighting with each other while complementing themselves beautifully at the same time.
Here's the full high quality LONDON version. She unleashes the FULL WEIGHT of her operatic grandeur and gospel power. It is a true vocal spectacle that NO-ONE can top. This version is a bit slower and more dramatic than the California version. Cheers and Merry Christmas🎅🎄 m.ua-cam.com/video/8cGssiOAw-U/v-deo.html
Matthew Davidse There are many singers who possess some of these traits you mentioned, but NONE of them individually possess ALL of these traits at the same time. Only Whitney. That is what has her in class all by herself.
This version is amazing, but you MUST to hear the London version she did (link below) a month after this one. Believe it or not, it is even more intense, dramatic and operatic than this one. It is downright scary. Male tenors like Pavorotti would BOW in submission to it. Whitney in her prime (and at her most powerful) was a like a 300 pound male opera tenor, a 300 pound black female gospel singer and Barbara Streisand trapped in the body of a 115 pound, tall, regal, real life black Barbie doll/runway model. Put your headphones on and start it at the 2 minute mark to skip her chatting with the audience and be prepared to have your mind blown even harder. I'd love to hear your reaction. Let me know which version blows your mind the most. ua-cam.com/video/LItDj7Rk0-w/v-deo.html
Oh yeah! Simply the #GOAT… unachievable unmatchable untouchable irreplaceable… AND WILL NEVER BORN AGAIN ANOTHER WHITNEY THE VOICE ELIZABETH HOUSTON! The VOICE OF GOD !!!Nothing else to say… Every time I listening her I get chills and some tears fall on my face... she passed away too soon, I miss her desperately… God bless her and Krissy and y’all my dears Nippians!🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼🌈🌈🌈💜💜💜
DAMN RIGHT! that final belt at the end was like a vocal hurricane. I dare anybody to show me a bitch who can do that just as powerfully, and sustain it just as long, with the same amount of control. I'll wait.........😩😏😴😴
Whitney came to Sydney Australia in 1986. She sang this song and said she had a cold. My mum and I thought if you sing like this with a cold how do you sing otherwise. She nearly lifted the roof off the entertainment centre.
Say it louder for the people in the back! Mariah STANS love to troll this video and many other Whitney vids claiming she is the best ever. Mariah was great in her prime and she has a handful of great live performances but NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THEM can touch THIS performance. The breath control/stamina, cadence, clarity, dynamics, POWER and TONE in this performance (displayed for an entire 10 mins) are unfathomable. Mariah at her absolute best could never top this performance.
@@TheMastersuperblasteMariah’s tribute to Patti Labelle in 1998 is perfect, and Whitney couldnt do what she did that night. They have different things and are equal. Also I agree that lambs are too much but so are Whitney stans. Search that performance it if you please, but dont clown on Mariah. Whitney would put you in your place for trying to shade THE mariah carey.
@@Rizzlergoblin578 mariahs performance wasnt perfect in the slightest….her voice was behind the melody…..she was trying to hard to hit the notes instead of singing the song through….Whitneys acapella cleared mariahs version and this performance clears anything of mariahs….its cute you like mariah but never will mariah have a vocal performance better than this periodtttt.
@@diorrboyyyy you’re just joking atp… Whitneys acapella wasn’t even on pitch… and no Mariah wasn’t behind the track, are you dumb??! You’re glazing so hard, when you know NOTHING about singing. Get your ignorance tf outta here or say something that isn’t a complete lie💀😭
What is your reasoning? Don’t have one? What I thought.🥰 For one, most of her runs are so sloppy, not on key at all. She tried to do as many notes as fast as possible which only sounded good to tone deaf people(like you),her belts above D5 are pushy and tight sounding, ZERO lower register, it hurts to hear her even try to go below a G3, I can go on, but apparently “its not even fucking close” just say you just don’t know anyone else
Whitney's Voice alone makes me believe that there's a God...cause two rocks colliding together didn't produce these Vocals. Her voice is "The Big Bang".....and that ain't no theory!
what a deep and profound observation. I've had the same thought. I cannot say that I'm a religious person. I often question if there is in fact, a GOD. but everytime I hear this performance, I start to believe. or at least beileve in some greater power. a voice like that cannot be a coincidence.
Master Superblaster Yea everybody believes in something...whether it's a Higher Power or whether it's nothing at all. I personally believe Jesus is my Lord and Savior, and I'm not here to debate or anything; and while I could give many reasons why I believe I won't; but the anatomy of the human body alone is one of the biggest testaments of there being a "God". There's a Scripture that reads "When Christ ascended on High He gave Gifts to men" and another one in Psalms 139 that says "We are fearfully and wonderfully made." Whitney's voice is definitely bearing witness to that!
One can hear the difference in Whitney's vocals from 1984 until now in 1986. Her voice had matured and developed with such intensity. Her majestical and God given talent had risen to a totally higher level. She had raised the bar in music. No one has mastered this measurement of skills ever. She had "everything" going for her. Her beauty, charisma, stage presence, the voice, personality, character and spirit was tied into one package and wrapped with the most beautiful ribboned bow! What an amazing gift! Classy high quality. Non like it ever!
Say it agaaaainnnn! She was chosen. Half earth angel/half extraterrestrial 👽 lol To be so immensely gifted and incomparable is both a blessing and a burden. I can only imagine the great high's and low's that come with such a heavy 👑. Why she allowed herself to pick up a cigarette habit with a voice like this is beyond me. Everyone harps on the drug use as the culprit but it was the chain-smoking of Newports and years of over-touring all over the globe (to make up for whatever revenue she missed out on by not having songwriting credentials) is what did her voice in. I am thankful for UA-cam and doubly greatful to whomever captured these amazing bootleg performances that aren't as widely known as her big mainstream hits, music videos and award show performances. This is Whitney UNLEASHING the full weight of her powers, in the prime of her youth like a real life female superhero.
Possibly the best live vocal I have ever heard. Unmatched tone - it's to die for. Incredible runs. Perfect diction and phrasing. Head voice!!! Did I mention POWER? She has control over all of it!! No contest, she's the best vocalist to ever draw breath. Miss her tone so much.
THAT WICKED UPPER REGISTER CAME FROM HER MAMA CISSY. Y'ALL CHECK OUT CISSY FROM THE SIXTIES AND SEVENTIES - I DID IT AND IT BROUGHT TEARS TO MY EYES. RIP NIPPY! LOVE U MAMI!
Whitney was such a versatile singer. She gave Barbra (the pleasant-sounding and resonant sustained belts at 5:35 and 10:00), Patti/Aretha (with her powerful sustained G5 at 5:20), Jennifer Holiday (with the grunts/growls at 4:00, 4:14, 5:33, etc.), and even her own mother Cissy Houston with her developed head voice (4:12, 6:09, 7:05).
It's great that you included Jennifer Holiday in your assessment because Whitney actually took a lot of influence from Jennifer in her vocal stylings. Few people realize that.
I've seen you denigrating her name and vocal capabilities under several Whitney vs Mariah comment sections. So which is it? Either you're a fan or you're not.
@@TheMastersuperblaste So making an objective comparison between the vocal skills of two vocalists is called denigrating? Of course I'm a fan. Nippy is my favorite singer. I have expressed my thoughts but never denigrated anyone. I love her
@@vocalslover2131 stop using words like objective, you do not know what it means liar.. Same person said Whitney strains past Eb5 and MARIAH sings great up there...lies from the pit of hell. The person that had authentic upper belts were Whitney. Here she is not only hitting them she is holding up to G5s! All that nonsense about tone is rubbish, I am glad someone else called you out on your fake fandom..Messup liar lamb.. Go shapeshifter somewhere else..liar
@@TheMastersuperblaste Thank you for calling out that lambs, it lies all over UA-cam, saying Whitney strains all her notes past Eb and MARIAH IS THE GREATEST AND SHE "OBJECTIVELY" IS BETTER. I DO NOT KNOW WHY LAMBS THINK BEING OBJECTIVE CAN GO ALONG WITH BEING A LAMB HAHAHAHHA.Notice it mentions tone and headvoice...Meanwhike MARIAH NEVER COULD BELT WITH THIS LEVEL OF PROFECIENCY NEVER, SHE WAS WEAK AND CORELESS Any fandom that goes around spreading popaganda about a singer who is obviously better by far because of their insecurity can not be objective...Mariah never could sing with vibrato past E5, she strains and squeezed her throat at this note and she never had MANY good upper belting moments live ..but again she hardly sang any upper belts live...but please ignore that creature, I have exposed it many times for its lies,It viciously denigrates Whitney and lies about mARIAH
She had the best head voice ever not only mainstream music. It's much more beautiful than opera singers who all sound almost the same with the same tone-timbre
I'm going to put this out there right now. Whitney Houston tore this song up to a way that can only be described as transcendent.... I love Mariah Carey, and Celine Dion. But neither one of these two ladies can come close to what Whitney did on this one song... When I first heard Jennifer Hudson sing the song I thought it was absolutely incredible, and then I listen to Jennifer Holliday singing the song and I thought that no one can match that. Then the tsunami that was Whitney Houston slayed this song beyond all comprehension and let me tell you this, if the three of them were competing for the part of Effie, Whitney Houston would have won this hands down. This is the best version of the song that I have ever heard and I will likely never hear another female Touch This. The complexity and range of emotion that she portrayed in this song it's something that I've never heard Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, and even the great Aretha Franklin and Patti LaBelle touch. To me she is the best female vocalist of all time.
YOU. SAID. THAAAAT. I've been campaigning for this performance ever since I discovered it in 2007. Whenever I meet someone new and the subject of music and great singers comes up--I play this (along with the London and New York version) for them and just sit there, grinning from ear to ear looking at their reactions. I've never been more moved, fascinated and transfixed by a live vocal performance in my life. It's like she wasn't even human when she sang this. I don't think I'll ever hear a live vocal based performance that can touch this. EVER. The cadence, power, breath control, emotion, grit and incandescent ethereal beauty of her voice in this performance can only be described as otherworldly. Pure vocal sorcery. She's in warrior mode and her voice is the weapon. Whitney severed the heads of both J.Holliday and J. Hudson; then proceeded to joyfully kick the heads around, like FIFA World Cup soccer balls.
Well said, sir. She was simply the best. I can hear the beauty and power in Mariah, Celine and others. However, Whitney is the only one I can always feel. She's the one who touches my soul every time. She is, sincerely, the only one who can cause a tear to fall with one note. I saw her 3 times in concert in 5 nights. She was unapproachable as a vocalist in her prime between '85 and '94.
ummmm..... stop. There's no such thing as the best female vocalist of all time. Trust me Mariah and Celine could sing this song. There was no song Mariah couldn't sing back in the day.
@@THEE.apples YOU stop. Mariah in her prime could sing this song for sure, but for 10 mins with that much unmitigated power, clarity, cadence, beauty, breath control, and tone? Fuck to the no and Hell to the naaawll. Not even the 2 Jennifer's (both whom possess far more grit and soul in their voices than Mariah ever dreamed of) can do this the way Whitney did it. Whitney is the GOAT and you will deal. You may be seated.
@@barramundi4604 Agreed. Whitney collected the wigs and severed heads of every female singer that came before her, DURING her and after. She cannot and will not be approached. Even some of her worst vocals past her prime are better than alot of singers at their best.
Whitney was in a league of her own, the bodyguard era in particular where she slayed like no other. It was and still is Iconic as MJ's thriller which both accomplished huge success.
This is the best performance of any song, ever sung. I Am Changing, 1986 was the pinnacle of what singing is. Nobody can, nothing will and never could this be replicated.
i am the biggest mariah carey stan, more than i stan whitney (because i prefer her songs/albums and contribution to music more) but there is no denying that this performance is the best vocal performance that ever graced this earth and that whitney is THE ONE AND TRUE VOICE!!!
SAY IT! Mariah easily has the better overall catalogue of songs (which she actually wrote, unlike Whitney) BUT my GOD did Whitney have a much fuller, richer voice voice with superhuman stamina and power. How on earth did she manage to do what she did to this song...in a LIVE capacity at that? It's unreal. I dare and challenge anyone to find a live vocal performance that matches this. This is some serious, next level, X-Men superhero/alien shit. Below is the link to the full uncut London version of this song (performed about a month after this one here from San Francisco) I can't decide which one is scarier! She unleashes ever deadlier longer chest belts in the London version. ua-cam.com/video/LItDj7Rk0-w/v-deo.html
@@TheMastersuperblaste yes she really is the best singer that EVER (since audio recordings have been a thing). also i'll definitely check out that video
@@TheMastersuperblaste You are hilarious. Aretha would smash her between 65 and 78, Whitney would be made to look very average. What is it with you people, you're all absolutely nuts.
@@markdrinkwater1508 Oh, you think so? 🤔🥴 *insert Sam L Jackson sipping Big Khauna drink GIF* *also insert Sam L Jackson I DON'T REMEMBER ASKING YOU A GOTTDAAMN THING gif*
I had to pull over and shout!!! She sung the the stink off this song. Nobody has ever sung That song like that. Wow! God gave Whitney a gift. She added alot of gospel to this song too
...you wanna know what's really insane? The LONDON version (on my channel) .is even sicker, meaner, more operatic and more gospel flavored. Her belts on this one are on par with some of the great MALE opera tenors and her growls and grunts are just wicked. To think she was only 23 and weighed about 115 pounds at the time is unbelievable. Be sure to wear headphones and listen at full volume. Plz Comment your reaction here or on my actual channel. ua-cam.com/video/YlkT83CpKEU/v-deo.html
This performance is what Whitney should be known for, far more than Jennifer Holiday/Hudson, and far more than many of her own more well known studio recordings and live performances. This is the DEFINITIVE moment, right alongside her performance of "One moment in time" at the '89 Grammy's.
I completely agree with you man. Her voice has changed me in so many ways, taken my emotions to measures I've never reached before. Her voice puts me in awe every single time and she has changed me spiritually and mentally. She's truly inspiring and it was amazing for her to use her gift to praise God until she went down after she got everything she wanted. Sad but her voice will live forever.
I know most people associate Whitney with IWDWS and IWALY, but I feel this particular performance (along with the NYC and London versions) is the DEFINITIVE Whitney Houston live performance. It is quite possibly the most incredible live vocal performance ever to take place, on Planet Earth. This is her battle cry. She weilded the power and incandescent beauty of her voice, as if she were some sort of Demi goddess superhero from another universe. She is the missing Avenger--or the vocal equivalent to Storm, from the X-MEN. It's like she wasn't human. Whitney severed the heads of every singer (past present future, male/female) to ever hold a mic. She snatched both Jennifer Holiday and Hudsons wigs with this one. It's nearly impossible for me to listen to other singers renditions of this song, without giggling myself into a coma. She may be gone, but her voice will live on...even long after the world comes to an end. Her voice will echo through eternity and beyond. I truly beileve this. Simply put. Whitney Houston is the greatest singer of ALL TIME!
Hilarious, you're a total nut. This is truly awful in every sense. Most normal people would walk out half way through, or fall to sleep. The more I hear of this junk the more it dawns just how bad Houston was, nothing remotely artistic or beautiful to be found, just boring soulless exhibitionism. Truly dire, only demented people are entertained or moved by this.
@@markdrinkwater1508 yo your really a hater on Whitney Houston you keep saying nothing artistic but what artist do you know who sound better than the studio version everytime. She made her song sound different every time she sang with different improvising, runs, melody just made it different everytime. That takes a trained artistic eat. You say she's not artistic but for her to take someone's song and make it her own the best selling single by a female is artistic. I can go on and on I just seen you in the last comment if you don't like Whitney so much get the fuck off the video with your hate. I never understood why people comment with negative shit and hate just move on or go watch your favorite your comment doesn't change the world's opinion
And they used to say that she didn't have enough soul in the beginning of her career!!! What is it? She was at the beginning here, she was only 23 and she turn a Broadway song into a church song! GOAT!
This is what you got from her live! NO ONE can compare! I don't need dance moves at a show just sing and that's what Whitney did every show! I miss going to her concerts.
I couldn't have said it better Dawn. This was the showstopper for me in 1986. Imagine hearing this live in a venue. It was UNBELIEVABLE! A force of nature! I could not believe someone could sing the hell out of this song this way. This was when she was singing with the utmost of artistry, before her voice became 'affected' by tons of riffing...and even that she did better than anyone else! I remember her going several more songs after she did this show stopper. I don't know how she did it. My voice would have been SHOT!
I did! And the 2nd Carnegie Hall performance was even better than the first. I can still remember her walking out onstage in clear "Cinderalla-like" transparent "glass shoes" (clear patent leather I guess?)
Omg I remember those shoes! Lol (she wore them at her Symphony Hall concert with the gown she wore in the Greatest Love of All video I'm such a nerd lol) I saw her at Carnegie Hall too, in fact, that was my very first Whitney concert! Her aunt took me we went backstage to meet her I remember it like it was yesterday! Nov 20th 1985 wow good times!
On Kentucky Ave UGH, I AM SO JEALOUS! lol I was only 6 years old in '86 lol. I'm dying to find more live recordings of her singing "I am changing", other than the few posted here. the only one's posted here are this one from California, the new york show, the arista 1984 showcase she did with that Grace Jones looking hairstyle, and an incredible London rendition. I wish somebody would upload the Carnegie Hall version...maybe the full concert wasn't recorded?? :(
Lake a vocally immense barge, she takes us on a transcendent journey. Sometimes she rises in an out pouring of lamentation, then again she drives the song along and spices it up with brutally shrill Headvoice resonance. This audience sporadically applauds, cheers her on, but falls silent as if dumbfoundet when she let's it stew At the end she literally whips it up and has a great exchange of blows with the drummer. - Oh Lord, she floats away from it all like a crystal clear, hauntingly barbaric fountain of youth.... 💜💜💜💜
I teared up when she started chanting " I'm Changin'...I'm Changin'...I'm CHANGED!!!!"....at 6:24!!! God KNOWS that some of us had to invoke change in our lives with words before we could EVER dare to do it in deeds. Thank God, I'm CHANGED!!!!! Whitney sang the truth!!!
THE GREATEST LIVE SINGER....Takes us to the stratosphere... so believable, so touching, so heartfelt, so many nuances, so many colors in this voice!!! SHE GAVE HER ALL EACH AND EVERY TIME...even when she struggled later in her years with us....Gone too soon... Forever LOVED !
@@diorrboyyyygirl She hit multiple notes in that astounding headrun within *one second* duration Mariah doesn't even come close to Whitney's agility She doesn't have enough vocal stamina and developed HEADVOICE to touch Whitney's coloratura Only lambs would say that Whitney's coloratura is honestly unmatched Whitney possessed both POWER and AGILITY /+ control & vocal stamina Mariah possessed agility and expensive studio engineers LMAO
@@diorrboyyyy LMFAO yall need to stop lol. I've open-flame roasted so many lambs but the fact that Whitney and Mariah were genuine friends makes it harder now. I have way more fun with the Aretha vs Whitney debate--granted they were too far apart in age, cultural eras and not in their vocal primes at the same time.
@@pigeonsandplanes5805it's hit in chest (belted) so it's gonna have some tension especially when it's this high in the stratosphere. And the fact that it's connected and still resonant at this extremes says a lot about her exceptional belting technique. C5 to D5 tops is where belting maxes out because most ppl cannot belt above this area naturally. Belting is at home in the(upper 3rd octave for men with lower voices) 4th and lower fifth octave. After D5, a blended balanced mix is needed to go higher without pure head voice. This woman somehow knew how to get up there in belting. Don't know how but she did it.😮
Like some mystical vocal gymnast. Whitney is flipping and leaving her magic on every single note. What is she? Alto, soprano, show off, gifted...I just don't know but sure do love it.
I'm 15 years old. And I'm addicted on Whitney lol. My friends are looking weird on me, when they look at my playlist 😀 But they just don't realize that this is what is called "singing a song". Not rapping, where every 3rd word is dirty. (At least in my country lol)
SHE was given THE voice..not anyone before or after her❗💯👑💜 People be mad cause she is the best lol but she ain't got nothin else to prove. She came, she sang like no other but THE voice(and no other near her) and left an amazing earth shattering legacy💜💜💜💜
Cassie Neal Damn right. I discovered this performance several yrs ago, and ever since I've been convinced it is absolutely hands-down the greatest LIVE vocal performance I've EVER heard from a singer. Only in an alternate universe could this performance be approached, matched, or surpassed. It will NOT happen on Earth!
During an interview (I think in the late 90s) Oprah Winfrey, the queen of the talk shows said that when Whitney hit those high notes, it makes you want to cry. It was an interview just before Whitney launched her studio album " my love is your love" with a series of live shows within the United States. Well this is what Oprah was referring to - vocal prowess that is simply untouchable, cannot be equalled( much less surpassed) and incomparable!! As I have repeatedly said in the past, and will continue to say until the end of time, this sister's talent knew no boundaries. and whose popularity transcends musical styles - testimony to her jaw- dropping, awe-inspiring versatility!! If you are a true music lover with keen listening skills, you will hear in this song among other amazing qualities, the repeated but effortless movement from what Michael Narada Walden( one of the world's top 10 music producers) refers to as chest voice to head voice. This constant movement between the 2 "voices" as well as her mastery of melisma( the packing of different tones/ notes in a single syllable) were effectively demonstrated in this song. Whitney, we know for sure no one did it like you did it, and equally sure, there will never be another You!! R.I.P. I will always love and eternally cherish both you as a decent, selfless, graceful and sincere human being, and your unparalled musical legacy. You gave of yourself so unselfishly and sincerely, only to be housed, disrespected, unfairly attacked and ridiculed by the sensational media! But fret not thyself, as ultimately, God and not man will be the judge of all of us! Baulbeer Persaud
Baulbeer Persaud Agreed. I know most people associate Whitney with IWDWS and IWALY, but I feel this particular performance (along with the NYC and London versions) is the DEFINITIVE Whitney Houston live performance. It is quite possibly the most incredible live vocal performance ever to take place, on Planet Earth. This is her battle cry. She weilded the power and incandescent beauty of her voice, as if she were some sort of Demi goddess superhero from another universe. She is the missing Avenger--or the vocal equivalent to Storm, from the X-MEN. It's like she wasn't human. Whitney severed the heads of every singer (past present future, male/female) to ever hold a mic. She snatched both Jennifer Holiday and Hudsons wigs with this one. It's nearly impossible for me to listen to other singers renditions of this song, without giggling myself into a coma. She may be gone, but her voice will live on...even long after the world comes to an end. Her voice will echo through eternity and beyond. I truly beileve this. Simply put. Whitney Houston is the greatest singer of ALL TIME!
This was nothing short of .....idk Amazing isn't even strong enough to describe this performance! She IS incredible, This performance is a testament of her unique talent & dynamic vocal abilities; her emotional & passionate delivery of a song are still unmatched today! Whitney was quite a rare find; I believe even w/o Clive Davis' help, that voice would have lifted her to the world's stage somehow, someway! I feel so blessed to have been alive when the greatest songstress ever graced the stages of the world. I do hope she is finally having the peace denied her while she lived. miss you diva!
I AM AT A LOST FOR WORDS.....simply WOW.. from 5:00 to end ... all i can say is regardless of any other artist of high notes or range they can sing, she in her own right shined and owned any other vocalist in this performance with chills i can't describe.
I don't get into that nonsense about who's better or more talented, because it's all subjective. I will say this Whitney was absolutely at the height of her best form....you just shake your head and say my God!!
This sounds embarrassing but I literally have tears in my eyes. She was just a youg girl and the technical mastery, power, confidence and precision dispayed here is just beyond imagining. Whitney was born a star.
Here's the link to the LONDON version she did a month after this one. It's even MORE dramatic, slow burning, powerful, beautiful and downright scary. Make sure you wear headphones and turn it UP. Leave a comment as well (it's my channel) ua-cam.com/video/YlkT83CpKEU/v-deo.html
OMG that key change, and that full throttle voice. Unbelievable. Vocal chords of steel and gold. She could do anything with those vocal chords
The 8th wonder of the world = Whitney Houston's vocals 😮
Whitney + microphone = eargasm
Whitney just opens her mouth to sing one note, same effect.
2020 and still has eargasm ooops she did it
you aint never lied
Soulgasm
Whitney = eargasm
She was just 23 when she delivered this performance -unreal!
Truly? OMG
Adrian Cabugwason Yes she was!!!! She sounds so great!!! ❤️❤️❤️
21 actually
@@lifewithlew She was born in 1963 and this was in 1986...
Jennifer Hudson, done This song better, can’t say that about any other song , but Jennifer did do it better, not even close even...
I think this is one of the greatest contemporary vocal performances ever
No this is the greatest performance of a vocalist who live in this universe
This proves that there is a difference between TALENT AND A GIFT.
Exactly!
This 💯 U BETTA SAID THAT AGIAN
Always said the same. So many talented, so few gifted.
She had both!
She's AWESOME
Whitney at her peak is the greatest mainstream vocalist of all time. Yeah I said it and I stand by that.
Here's the full high quality LONDON version. She unleashes the FULL WEIGHT of her operatic grandeur and gospel power. It is a true vocal spectacle that NO-ONE can top. This version is a bit slower and more dramatic than the California version.
Cheers and Merry Christmas🎅🎄
m.ua-cam.com/video/8cGssiOAw-U/v-deo.html
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Agree
One of the best at her peak
She's demented, like her fanatics. This is awful beyond comprehension.
In the first 20 seconds I was convinced that she is infact the GREATEST vocalist of all time.
damnfkkinriiight 👍👍👍
Master Superblaster The first second!
+Abdullah Abbas You damned right. Say it again....
+threetimes a IKR! Just out of this world!
Sadly people think Beyonce can outsing the Goddess herself 🙄
She just murdered that shit !!!!!!!!!!!! Amazing tone, and amazing everything : vibrato, control, phrasing, diction.................Nothing is wrong.
🎯🎯🎯💯💯
this is why we call her The Voice
It is not the only one though
Right
God kissed this woman's throat. Whitney was an absolute Vocal Titan, incomparable. She will go down in history as the greatest singer of all-time. Michael The King, Whitney The Queen & Prince The Prince. The G.O.A.T.
Madonna was the Queen.
@@Sperm_monkey I'm a massive Madonna fan but C'mon bro. Madonna and Whitney are only comparable in terms of record sales, and being 2 WOMEN in the world of popular music. That's IT.
Whitney was a true blue vocalist and Madonna is a pop provocateur with a penchant for genius marketing skills and knowing how to cherry pick the right collaborators to provide her with the perfect sound and backdrop to stay at the top of her game. It makes more sense to compare Madonna to Janet than Whitney.
Master Superblaster Speak the truth
sperm monkey Madonna???? C’mon now. That joke ain’t even funny.
I'd put Dimash on the contention list for greatest singer of all time. He's got a fantastic set of pipes.
EDIT: Please note, this is not meant to shit on Whitney. She was a fantastic vocalist as well. However, Dimash has been evaluated by dozens of professional coaches and vocalists and they've all said he's objectively one of the best singers of all time. If you don't like his voice or his techniques, that's fine, but objectively his talent is next level (and so was Whitney's).
To be honest, this might be the BEST live performance of her whole career. It is definitely in the top 5
I'd say the greatest live vocal performance ever to take place on Earth.
Star spangled banner #1
@@TheMastersuperblaste best live vocal performance ever to take place on Earth after audio recordings were invented actually :D
@@TheMastersuperblaste here is vocal range video to I am changing
ua-cam.com/video/9IFXAG7Jc4w/v-deo.html
Yes aswel as didn't we almost have it all
This woman in her prime was a vocal ASSASSIN! who on earth can sing that powerfully LIVE, with such precision and control?? absolutely NOBODY! she was a vocal warrior, a superhero. WHITNEY, MICHAEL JACKSON, MICHAEL JORDAN, AND PRINCE ARE THE BLACK VERSION OF THE AVENGERS! they all had otherworldly super human talents. they can never be replaced, EVER.
I'm stealing that saying!!! I love it! VOCAL ASSASSIN!! F*ck Yeah
Vocal Assassin. Best term to describe her. Seriously awesome
Darius Burns yeeeaaahh. Every chance I get I play this performance for people who either haven't heard it, or who have any doubt in their mind that her voice came from another universe/planet/dimension. this performance is proof lol. she makes Jennifer hudson and Jennifer holiday look like bad American Idol auditioners in comparison. they both need to hear this so they can put a gun in their mouths and pull the trigger. this erases every performance they've ever done haha.
Master Superblaster That's kind of rude. You don't have to denounce other singers to praise Whitney.
Master Superblaster I agree 1,000%
many underestimated her technical abilities without any knowledge regarding singing pedagogues but what they didn't know is that whitney was actually technically refined. in this vocals alone, she showed multiple dynamic skills, an immense breath support and stamina, vigorous head voice, connected range, a resonant mid and upper mix, extreme agility and a good musicality. general public sucks
she does not use mixed registration. She sings in a coordinated chest voice, swelling her head voice into the core chest sound as she ascends! mIXED REGISTRATION GIVES A THIN, METTALIC , WHINY SOUND. Whitney had a big, fat , bold high belt because she made sure there was chest at the core of her sound!. No ugly, noise voices like all the celebrated modern singers have. They all sound ugly and metallic up there because of their underdeveloped core which is chest voice..
A lot of people have no clue very interesting.
@BlackMamba i mean, periodt.
Talk about emotions, but technique in short, she 's good, but there are better vocalist than her, more complete vocally ... just to tell the truth ...
@@DaniloStrever name them. there are only few vocalists who were better than her in her prime.
Whitney Motherfucking Houston
dahighbar Ha!!!
I really like your to-the-fucking-point comment!
That part
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The interaction between her voice and the piano is just incredible. It’s like they are fighting with each other while complementing themselves beautifully at the same time.
But the Drummer tops it.... 😎😎
The way she is able to transfer from her chest to head voice is just so breathtaking
Here's the full high quality LONDON version. She unleashes the FULL WEIGHT of her operatic grandeur and gospel power. It is a true vocal spectacle that NO-ONE can top. This version is a bit slower and more dramatic than the California version.
Cheers and Merry Christmas🎅🎄
m.ua-cam.com/video/8cGssiOAw-U/v-deo.html
This woman's voice is the platinum standard...The rich velvety tone, her fantastic diction, heart-wrenching emotion and raw power make her an icon
Matthew Davidse There are many singers who possess some of these traits you mentioned, but NONE of them individually possess ALL of these traits at the same time. Only Whitney. That is what has her in class all by herself.
I've always said the same thing. Whitney was the pure embodiment of vocal talent, giftedness and genius!
Beautifully said
@@TheMastersuperblaste Mariah owns all this and even more
@@honestperson3042 no babe mariah carey is great but whitney is the voice so...
Best live performance by any human being in the history of recorded music
This version is amazing, but you MUST to hear the London version she did (link below) a month after this one. Believe it or not, it is even more intense, dramatic and operatic than this one. It is downright scary. Male tenors like Pavorotti would BOW in submission to it.
Whitney in her prime (and at her most powerful) was a like a 300 pound male opera tenor, a 300 pound black female gospel singer and Barbara Streisand trapped in the body of a 115 pound, tall, regal, real life black Barbie doll/runway model.
Put your headphones on and start it at the 2 minute mark to skip her chatting with the audience and be prepared to have your mind blown even harder. I'd love to hear your reaction. Let me know which version blows your mind the most.
ua-cam.com/video/LItDj7Rk0-w/v-deo.html
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@@TheMastersuperblaste 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
@@TheMastersuperblaste Having read that I now know that you are insane for real. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
@@TheMastersuperblaste 😳🤣🤣🤣
I WISH THEY HAD VIDEO ON THIS SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5:34 NOBODY holds a note like Whitney 🎤 🎶
Her hair is so beautiful in this picture.
"THE VOICE" no honest person can deny it. She was a beast on the mic. This woman had the voice of voices.
Oh yeah! Simply the #GOAT… unachievable unmatchable untouchable irreplaceable… AND WILL NEVER BORN AGAIN ANOTHER WHITNEY THE VOICE ELIZABETH HOUSTON! The VOICE OF GOD !!!Nothing else to say… Every time I listening her I get chills and some tears fall on my face... she passed away too soon, I miss her desperately… God bless her and Krissy and y’all my dears Nippians!🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼🌈🌈🌈💜💜💜
Damn, she turned a Broadway song into a soul standard! Jesus. RIP Whitney!
NO ONE! Male or female can surpass the G.O.A.T Miss Whitney Houston. The Greatest voice that has ever lived. R.I.P The voice.
DAMN RIGHT! that final belt at the end was like a vocal hurricane. I dare anybody to show me a bitch who can do that just as powerfully, and sustain it just as long, with the same amount of control. I'll wait.........😩😏😴😴
+Master Superblaster You'll wait forever lol
Amen!
Amen!
Amen
Whitney came to Sydney Australia in 1986. She sang this song and said she had a cold. My mum and I thought if you sing like this with a cold how do you sing otherwise. She nearly lifted the roof off the entertainment centre.
Whitney is the greatest singer ever, and its not even fucking close
Say it louder for the people in the back! Mariah STANS love to troll this video and many other Whitney vids claiming she is the best ever. Mariah was great in her prime and she has a handful of great live performances but NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THEM can touch THIS performance.
The breath control/stamina, cadence, clarity, dynamics, POWER and TONE in this performance (displayed for an entire 10 mins) are unfathomable. Mariah at her absolute best could never top this performance.
@@TheMastersuperblasteMariah’s tribute to Patti Labelle in 1998 is perfect, and Whitney couldnt do what she did that night. They have different things and are equal. Also I agree that lambs are too much but so are Whitney stans. Search that performance it if you please, but dont clown on Mariah. Whitney would put you in your place for trying to shade THE mariah carey.
@@Rizzlergoblin578 mariahs performance wasnt perfect in the slightest….her voice was behind the melody…..she was trying to hard to hit the notes instead of singing the song through….Whitneys acapella cleared mariahs version and this performance clears anything of mariahs….its cute you like mariah but never will mariah have a vocal performance better than this periodtttt.
@@diorrboyyyy you’re just joking atp… Whitneys acapella wasn’t even on pitch… and no Mariah wasn’t behind the track, are you dumb??! You’re glazing so hard, when you know NOTHING about singing. Get your ignorance tf outta here or say something that isn’t a complete lie💀😭
What is your reasoning? Don’t have one? What I thought.🥰 For one, most of her runs are so sloppy, not on key at all. She tried to do as many notes as fast as possible which only sounded good to tone deaf people(like you),her belts above D5 are pushy and tight sounding, ZERO lower register, it hurts to hear her even try to go below a G3, I can go on, but apparently “its not even fucking close” just say you just don’t know anyone else
The note along @ 5:34 - 5:46 is OMg there are no words. I just feel so blessed to have witnessed such greatness, truly a once in a lifetime voice.
10 minutes!!!! 1 Song!!!… Remind me of my history and ancestry ❤❤❤
no sane person can deny this voice !!!!!!!!!!!!
Ikr!
Whitney's Voice alone makes me believe that there's a God...cause two rocks colliding together didn't produce these Vocals. Her voice is "The Big Bang".....and that ain't no theory!
what a deep and profound observation. I've had the same thought. I cannot say that I'm a religious person. I often question if there is in fact, a GOD. but everytime I hear this performance, I start to believe. or at least beileve in some greater power. a voice like that cannot be a coincidence.
Master Superblaster Yea everybody believes in something...whether it's a Higher Power or whether it's nothing at all. I personally believe Jesus is my Lord and Savior, and I'm not here to debate or anything; and while I could give many reasons why I believe I won't; but the anatomy of the human body alone is one of the biggest testaments of there being a "God". There's a Scripture that reads "When Christ ascended on High He gave Gifts to men" and another one in Psalms 139 that says "We are fearfully and wonderfully made." Whitney's voice is definitely bearing witness to that!
I totally agree listening to Whitney touches my soul & spirit.She was destined for greatness from the womb!!
She sure was Malissa!
This comment is so extra
One can hear the difference in Whitney's vocals from 1984 until now in 1986. Her voice had matured and developed with such intensity. Her majestical and God given talent had risen to a totally higher level. She had raised the bar in music. No one has mastered this measurement of skills ever. She had "everything" going for her. Her beauty, charisma, stage presence, the voice, personality, character and spirit was tied into one package and wrapped with the most beautiful ribboned bow! What an amazing gift! Classy high quality. Non like it ever!
Say it agaaaainnnn! She was chosen. Half earth angel/half extraterrestrial 👽 lol To be so immensely gifted and incomparable is both a blessing and a burden. I can only imagine the great high's and low's that come with such a heavy 👑.
Why she allowed herself to pick up a cigarette habit with a voice like this is beyond me. Everyone harps on the drug use as the culprit but it was the chain-smoking of Newports and years of over-touring all over the globe (to make up for whatever revenue she missed out on by not having songwriting credentials) is what did her voice in.
I am thankful for UA-cam and doubly greatful to whomever captured these amazing bootleg performances that aren't as widely known as her big mainstream hits, music videos and award show performances. This is Whitney UNLEASHING the full weight of her powers, in the prime of her youth like a real life female superhero.
@@TheMastersuperblaste right because #ChakaKhan has done and still does coke for decades but she still has the strength and power behind her voice
Well stated. Amen!
Her high range is so strong
Sopranooo😍
Possibly the best live vocal I have ever heard. Unmatched tone - it's to die for. Incredible runs. Perfect diction and phrasing. Head voice!!! Did I mention POWER? She has control over all of it!! No contest, she's the best vocalist to ever draw breath. Miss her tone so much.
THAT WICKED UPPER REGISTER CAME FROM HER MAMA CISSY. Y'ALL CHECK OUT CISSY FROM THE SIXTIES AND SEVENTIES - I DID IT AND IT BROUGHT TEARS TO MY EYES. RIP NIPPY! LOVE U MAMI!
I am Talako (Gray Eagle In The Sky) yes her mother was really good also
Whitney was such a versatile singer. She gave Barbra (the pleasant-sounding and resonant sustained belts at 5:35 and 10:00), Patti/Aretha (with her powerful sustained G5 at 5:20), Jennifer Holiday (with the grunts/growls at 4:00, 4:14, 5:33, etc.), and even her own mother Cissy Houston with her developed head voice (4:12, 6:09, 7:05).
She truly had it all.
OMG she'd it all
She GIFTED by the MOST HIGH 😇❤️
It's great that you included Jennifer Holiday in your assessment because Whitney actually took a lot of influence from Jennifer in her vocal stylings. Few people realize that.
@@skip031890 lol
Her tone is so beautiful, her headvoice is probably the best in mainstream music
I've seen you denigrating her name and vocal capabilities under several Whitney vs Mariah comment sections. So which is it? Either you're a fan or you're not.
@@TheMastersuperblaste So making an objective comparison between the vocal skills of two vocalists is called denigrating? Of course I'm a fan. Nippy is my favorite singer. I have expressed my thoughts but never denigrated anyone. I love her
@@vocalslover2131 stop using words like objective, you do not know what it means liar.. Same person said Whitney strains past Eb5 and MARIAH sings great up there...lies from the pit of hell. The person that had authentic upper belts were Whitney. Here she is not only hitting them she is holding up to G5s!
All that nonsense about tone is rubbish, I am glad someone else called you out on your fake fandom..Messup liar lamb.. Go shapeshifter somewhere else..liar
@@TheMastersuperblaste Thank you for calling out that lambs, it lies all over UA-cam, saying Whitney strains all her notes past Eb and MARIAH IS THE GREATEST AND SHE "OBJECTIVELY" IS BETTER. I DO NOT KNOW WHY LAMBS THINK BEING OBJECTIVE CAN GO ALONG WITH BEING A LAMB HAHAHAHHA.Notice it mentions tone and headvoice...Meanwhike MARIAH NEVER COULD BELT WITH THIS LEVEL OF PROFECIENCY NEVER, SHE WAS WEAK AND CORELESS
Any fandom that goes around spreading popaganda about a singer who is obviously better by far because of their insecurity can not be objective...Mariah never could sing with vibrato past E5, she strains and squeezed her throat at this note and she never had MANY good upper belting moments live ..but again she hardly sang any upper belts live...but please ignore that creature, I have exposed it many times for its lies,It viciously denigrates Whitney and lies about mARIAH
She had the best head voice ever not only mainstream music. It's much more beautiful than opera singers who all sound almost the same with the same tone-timbre
I'm going to put this out there right now. Whitney Houston tore this song up to a way that can only be described as transcendent.... I love Mariah Carey, and Celine Dion. But neither one of these two ladies can come close to what Whitney did on this one song... When I first heard Jennifer Hudson sing the song I thought it was absolutely incredible, and then I listen to Jennifer Holliday singing the song and I thought that no one can match that. Then the tsunami that was Whitney Houston slayed this song beyond all comprehension and let me tell you this, if the three of them were competing for the part of Effie, Whitney Houston would have won this hands down. This is the best version of the song that I have ever heard and I will likely never hear another female Touch This. The complexity and range of emotion that she portrayed in this song it's something that I've never heard Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, and even the great Aretha Franklin and Patti LaBelle touch. To me she is the best female vocalist of all time.
YOU. SAID. THAAAAT. I've been campaigning for this performance ever since I discovered it in 2007. Whenever I meet someone new and the subject of music and great singers comes up--I play this (along with the London and New York version) for them and just sit there, grinning from ear to ear looking at their reactions.
I've never been more moved, fascinated and transfixed by a live vocal performance in my life. It's like she wasn't even human when she sang this. I don't think I'll ever hear a live vocal based performance that can touch this. EVER.
The cadence, power, breath control, emotion, grit and incandescent ethereal beauty of her voice in this performance can only be described as otherworldly. Pure vocal sorcery. She's in warrior mode and her voice is the weapon.
Whitney severed the heads of both J.Holliday and J. Hudson; then proceeded to joyfully kick the heads around, like FIFA World Cup soccer balls.
Well said, sir. She was simply the best. I can hear the beauty and power in Mariah, Celine and others. However, Whitney is the only one I can always feel. She's the one who touches my soul every time. She is, sincerely, the only one who can cause a tear to fall with one note. I saw her 3 times in concert in 5 nights. She was unapproachable as a vocalist in her prime between '85 and '94.
ummmm..... stop. There's no such thing as the best female vocalist of all time. Trust me Mariah and Celine could sing this song. There was no song Mariah couldn't sing back in the day.
@@THEE.apples YOU stop. Mariah in her prime could sing this song for sure, but for 10 mins with that much unmitigated power, clarity, cadence, beauty, breath control, and tone? Fuck to the no and Hell to the naaawll. Not even the 2 Jennifer's (both whom possess far more grit and soul in their voices than Mariah ever dreamed of) can do this the way Whitney did it. Whitney is the GOAT and you will deal. You may be seated.
@@barramundi4604 Agreed. Whitney collected the wigs and severed heads of every female singer that came before her, DURING her and after. She cannot and will not be approached. Even some of her worst vocals past her prime are better than alot of singers at their best.
SHE TURNED A 4 MINUTE SONG INTO A 10 MIN PERFORMANCE, FUCKIN LEGEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Whitney Houston was a vocal tsunami in her heydays. You didn't really know what just hit you. You just knew you wanted more!
Whitney was in a league of her own, the bodyguard era in particular where she slayed like no other. It was and still is Iconic as MJ's thriller which both accomplished huge success.
This is why I saw her every year from 1985.....................
You were blessed to be able to swing that.
bhonda3 I’m jealous !! 🙂
I am jealous. I never got to see her live.
I saw her live once. Had no idea She toured every year. In fact I highly doubt that she did.
@@arianicole112 Yeah she did. From 1985-1995 Whitney was on tour every year.
The layers to her voice are unbelievable.
insane rit
Just blows my mind to hear how she was able to use her voice in so many different ways in a single song.
This is the best performance of any song, ever sung. I Am Changing, 1986 was the pinnacle of what singing is. Nobody can, nothing will and never could this be replicated.
No one compares or comes close to Whitney. No one. No human that has ever lived or lives or will ever live. Point blank period. Thnx god bless
Edona Krasniqi Agreed. One word for Whitney : UNTOUCHABLE!
Marcaz Lmao .. This Gave Me A Great Laugh . Smh
Edona Krasniqi . D'accord avec ce qui est écrit
Master Superblaster well great i could give you a good laugh since you seem to be a bit negative. GB
Marcaz in your OP, but id we talking facts the No baby is the answer
I love the audience participation of Whitney's fans, honey. Half the fun of her live performances was listening to the things fans would scream out.
This is the best rendition of this song ever
i am the biggest mariah carey stan, more than i stan whitney (because i prefer her songs/albums and contribution to music more) but there is no denying that this performance is the best vocal performance that ever graced this earth and that whitney is THE ONE AND TRUE VOICE!!!
SAY IT! Mariah easily has the better overall catalogue of songs (which she actually wrote, unlike Whitney) BUT my GOD did Whitney have a much fuller, richer voice voice with superhuman stamina and power. How on earth did she manage to do what she did to this song...in a LIVE capacity at that? It's unreal. I dare and challenge anyone to find a live vocal performance that matches this. This is some serious, next level, X-Men superhero/alien shit.
Below is the link to the full uncut London version of this song (performed about a month after this one here from San Francisco) I can't decide which one is scarier! She unleashes ever deadlier longer chest belts in the London version.
ua-cam.com/video/LItDj7Rk0-w/v-deo.html
@@TheMastersuperblaste yes she really is the best singer that EVER (since audio recordings have been a thing). also i'll definitely check out that video
They all trail behind Aretha Franklin and they all know their place.
@@TheMastersuperblaste You are hilarious. Aretha would smash her between 65 and 78, Whitney would be made to look very average. What is it with you people, you're all absolutely nuts.
@@markdrinkwater1508 Oh, you think so? 🤔🥴
*insert Sam L Jackson sipping Big Khauna drink GIF*
*also insert Sam L Jackson I DON'T REMEMBER ASKING YOU A GOTTDAAMN THING gif*
This might be her best live recording! The voice was at its best here! A gift from Jesus himself!
I had to pull over and shout!!! She sung the the stink off this song. Nobody has ever sung That song like that. Wow! God gave Whitney a gift. She added alot of gospel to this song too
...you wanna know what's really insane? The LONDON version (on my channel) .is even sicker, meaner, more operatic and more gospel flavored. Her belts on this one are on par with some of the great MALE opera tenors and her growls and grunts are just wicked.
To think she was only 23 and weighed about 115 pounds at the time is unbelievable. Be sure to wear headphones and listen at full volume. Plz Comment your reaction here or on my actual channel.
ua-cam.com/video/YlkT83CpKEU/v-deo.html
The greatest singer that ever lived.
36 people have no ears or absolutely don't feel the soul in her voice. this is so raw and real.
No one can express this song as well as her, the performance was just insanely chilling and phenomenal
This performance is what Whitney should be known for, far more than Jennifer Holiday/Hudson, and far more than many of her own more well known studio recordings and live performances. This is the DEFINITIVE moment, right alongside her performance of "One moment in time" at the '89 Grammy's.
She literally dominated the stage without even moving
DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This alone is all the proof I need that GOD IS REAL!!!
Tears.... words simply can not express the effect this womans voice has on me.. and the world. Yes I have been changed.
I completely agree with you man. Her voice has changed me in so many ways, taken my emotions to measures I've never reached before. Her voice puts me in awe every single time and she has changed me spiritually and mentally. She's truly inspiring and it was amazing for her to use her gift to praise God until she went down after she got everything she wanted. Sad but her voice will live forever.
+Marco Murillo i agree 100% to you two. 🙏
She was at her best ❤ even at her worst she wasn't mediocre love you Whitney never well be another
This version is untouchable. She is indeed THE VOICE.
I know most people associate Whitney with IWDWS and IWALY, but I feel this particular performance (along with the NYC and London versions) is the DEFINITIVE Whitney Houston live performance. It is quite possibly the most incredible live vocal performance ever to take place, on Planet Earth.
This is her battle cry. She weilded the power and incandescent beauty of her voice, as if she were some sort of Demi goddess superhero from another universe. She is the missing Avenger--or the vocal equivalent to Storm, from the X-MEN.
It's like she wasn't human. Whitney severed the heads of every singer (past present future, male/female) to ever hold a mic. She snatched both Jennifer Holiday and Hudsons wigs with this one. It's nearly impossible for me to listen to other singers renditions of this song, without giggling myself into a coma.
She may be gone, but her voice will live on...even long after the world comes to an end. Her voice will echo through eternity and beyond. I truly beileve this. Simply put. Whitney Houston is the greatest singer of ALL TIME!
ALL OF THIS!!
Master Superblaster Yes she is!!!!
The GREATEST 💪🏿❤️💪🏿❤️💪🏿❤️
Hilarious, you're a total nut. This is truly awful in every sense. Most normal people would walk out half way through, or fall to sleep. The more I hear of this junk the more it dawns just how bad Houston was, nothing remotely artistic or beautiful to be found, just boring soulless exhibitionism. Truly dire, only demented people are entertained or moved by this.
@@markdrinkwater1508 yo your really a hater on Whitney Houston you keep saying nothing artistic but what artist do you know who sound better than the studio version everytime. She made her song sound different every time she sang with different improvising, runs, melody just made it different everytime. That takes a trained artistic eat. You say she's not artistic but for her to take someone's song and make it her own the best selling single by a female is artistic. I can go on and on I just seen you in the last comment if you don't like Whitney so much get the fuck off the video with your hate. I never understood why people comment with negative shit and hate just move on or go watch your favorite your comment doesn't change the world's opinion
My goodness!!! What a gifted voice and charismatic singer!!!! She was really a Phenomenon!!!!
7:00 …. ❤❤❤.. she is like an opera singer, here. 🎉
True. She was a soprano. 🤫🤫♥️♥️
@@thomasrehag1747 Lyric soprano
@@diorrboyyyy Thank you very much. 👍👍♥️♥️
And they used to say that she didn't have enough soul in the beginning of her career!!! What is it? She was at the beginning here, she was only 23 and she turn a Broadway song into a church song! GOAT!
The Devil is a liar!
Facts them "im changing, im changed" notes where spiritual
7:27 to 7:41 - One of the sweetest and most soulful sounds I've ever heard...."my life!"
I have no words. I just have no words!!!! She is beyond incredible!!!!!!!!
no one will come close ever
The good lord touched her on the shoulder, and said you WILL be special. Ugh, so perfect
This is what you got from her live! NO ONE can compare! I don't need dance moves at a show just sing and that's what Whitney did every show! I miss going to her concerts.
I couldn't have said it better Dawn. This was the showstopper for me in 1986. Imagine hearing this live in a venue. It was UNBELIEVABLE! A force of nature! I could not believe someone could sing the hell out of this song this way. This was when she was singing with the utmost of artistry, before her voice became 'affected' by tons of riffing...and even that she did better than anyone else! I remember her going several more songs after she did this show stopper. I don't know how she did it. My voice would have been SHOT!
On Kentucky Ave did u attend any of those '86 concerts in person?
I did! And the 2nd Carnegie Hall performance was even better than the first. I can still remember her walking out onstage in clear "Cinderalla-like" transparent "glass shoes" (clear patent leather I guess?)
Omg I remember those shoes! Lol (she wore them at her Symphony Hall concert with the gown she wore in the Greatest Love of All video I'm such a nerd lol) I saw her at Carnegie Hall too, in fact, that was my very first Whitney concert! Her aunt took me we went backstage to meet her I remember it like it was yesterday! Nov 20th 1985 wow good times!
On Kentucky Ave UGH, I AM SO JEALOUS! lol I was only 6 years old in '86 lol. I'm dying to find more live recordings of her singing "I am changing", other than the few posted here. the only one's posted here are this one from California, the new york show, the arista 1984 showcase she did with that Grace Jones looking hairstyle, and an incredible London rendition. I wish somebody would upload the Carnegie Hall version...maybe the full concert wasn't recorded?? :(
Lake a vocally immense barge, she takes us on a transcendent journey. Sometimes she rises in an out pouring of lamentation, then again she drives the song along and spices it up with brutally shrill Headvoice resonance. This audience sporadically applauds, cheers her on, but falls silent as if dumbfoundet when she let's it stew At the end she literally whips it up and has a great exchange of blows with the drummer. - Oh Lord, she floats away from it all like a crystal clear, hauntingly barbaric fountain of youth.... 💜💜💜💜
Amazing vocal! Sheer power and control. Gone Nippy.
She is and will forever be the greatest of all time
Amazing theatrics, drama and vocal suspense - unpredictability ... You go Whitney. Theres non like you! Thats Whitney. The Voice!
I love the ending when she's playing with her band. . . ME!
I teared up when she started chanting " I'm Changin'...I'm Changin'...I'm CHANGED!!!!"....at 6:24!!! God KNOWS that some of us had to invoke change in our lives with words before we could EVER dare to do it in deeds. Thank God, I'm CHANGED!!!!! Whitney sang the truth!!!
I WASN'T READY YET!!!! I WAS NOT READY!!!
This is what makes her "incomparable" and the All Time Greatest Vocalist Ever...RIP Ms Houston
👍👍❤️❤️😍😍🌹🌹💙
THE GREATEST LIVE SINGER....Takes us to the stratosphere... so believable, so touching, so heartfelt, so many nuances, so many colors in this voice!!! SHE GAVE HER ALL EACH AND EVERY TIME...even when she struggled later in her years with us....Gone too soon... Forever LOVED !
Absolutely Beautiful! The Greatest
Before she unleashed that OPERATIC C6 this note shee hits at 4:12 is otherworldly
So beautiful and came with supersonic speed 😂🙌🏿👑❤️
She ended mooriah scarey😭
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She hit multiple notes in that astounding headrun within *one second* duration
Mariah doesn't even come close to Whitney's agility
She doesn't have enough vocal stamina and developed HEADVOICE to touch Whitney's coloratura
Only lambs would say that
Whitney's coloratura is honestly unmatched
Whitney possessed both POWER and AGILITY /+ control & vocal stamina
Mariah possessed agility and expensive studio engineers LMAO
@@Swahili14 End mariah again for me
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LMFAO yall need to stop lol. I've open-flame roasted so many lambs but the fact that Whitney and Mariah were genuine friends makes it harder now. I have way more fun with the Aretha vs Whitney debate--granted they were too far apart in age, cultural eras and not in their vocal primes at the same time.
@@MasterSuperBlaster i love ending lambs because apparently Whitney wasnt an artist and couldnt perform live🤣
Oh Whitney oh Whitney oh Whitney why baby why Whitney was one of a kind she had a god giving talent im in tears smh
That G5 at 5:20 to 5:21 is one of the best notes ever.
It's resonant, powerful and even with an incredibly fast vibrato OMG
@@Swahili14 ?lol tks for describing such a constricted G5 and "fast vibrato"=unnatural vibrato=tremelo (rushed vibrato)
@@pigeonsandplanes5805 😂😂😂🚮
@@pigeonsandplanes5805it's hit in chest (belted) so it's gonna have some tension especially when it's this high in the stratosphere.
And the fact that it's connected and still resonant at this extremes says a lot about her exceptional belting technique.
C5 to D5 tops is where belting maxes out because most ppl cannot belt above this area naturally. Belting is at home in the(upper 3rd octave for men with lower voices) 4th and lower fifth octave. After D5, a blended balanced mix is needed to go higher without pure head voice.
This woman somehow knew how to get up there in belting. Don't know how but she did it.😮
Like some mystical vocal gymnast. Whitney is flipping and leaving her magic on every single note. What is she? Alto, soprano, show off, gifted...I just don't know but sure do love it.
right here she was a Spinto Soprano
rit..lol ..dam
Here she was a lyric soprano
I'm 15 years old. And I'm addicted on Whitney lol. My friends are looking weird on me, when they look at my playlist 😀 But they just don't realize that this is what is called "singing a song". Not rapping, where every 3rd word is dirty. (At least in my country lol)
51/2 years later and I'm still so sad she's gone.
SHE was given THE voice..not anyone before or after her❗💯👑💜 People be mad cause she is the best lol but she ain't got nothin else to prove. She came, she sang like no other but THE voice(and no other near her) and left an amazing earth shattering legacy💜💜💜💜
This the first time I have ever this by my girl Whitney. Nobody I mean Nobody can touch this. OMG OMG OMG!! UNBELIEVABLE RIP!! WHITNEY
Cassie Neal Damn right. I discovered this performance several yrs ago, and ever since I've been convinced it is absolutely hands-down the greatest LIVE vocal performance I've EVER heard from a singer. Only in an alternate universe could this performance be approached, matched, or surpassed. It will NOT happen on Earth!
The greatest singer past, present, and future... point, blank, period. Rest easy baby girl.
🙌🙌👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏Amen!
No ma’am, not today you won’t...I’m going back to bed to get my life together because she wrecked it from beginning to end. #RIPWHITNEY
She was out of this world ❤
OMG! This woman. Just wow!
I keep coming back to this. I still can't believe it
It completely melts you and leaves you breathless. It’s almost scarey.
During an interview (I think in the late 90s) Oprah Winfrey, the queen of the talk shows said that when Whitney hit those high notes, it makes you want to cry. It was an interview just before Whitney launched her studio album " my love is your love" with a series of live shows within the United States. Well this is what Oprah was referring to - vocal prowess that is simply untouchable, cannot be equalled( much less surpassed) and incomparable!!
As I have repeatedly said in the past, and will continue to say until the end of time, this sister's talent knew no boundaries. and whose popularity transcends musical styles - testimony to her jaw- dropping, awe-inspiring versatility!! If you are a true music lover with keen listening skills, you will hear in this song among other amazing qualities, the repeated but effortless movement from what Michael Narada Walden( one of the world's top 10 music producers) refers to as chest voice to head voice. This constant movement between the 2 "voices" as well as her mastery of melisma( the packing of different tones/ notes in a single syllable) were effectively demonstrated in this song.
Whitney, we know for sure no one did it like you did it, and equally sure, there will never be another You!!
R.I.P. I will always love and eternally cherish both you as a decent, selfless, graceful and sincere human being, and your unparalled musical legacy.
You gave of yourself so unselfishly and sincerely, only to be housed, disrespected, unfairly attacked and ridiculed by the sensational media! But fret not thyself, as ultimately, God and not man will be the judge of all of us!
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Baulbeer Persaud Agreed. I know most people associate Whitney with IWDWS and IWALY, but I feel this particular performance (along with the NYC and London versions) is the DEFINITIVE Whitney Houston live performance. It is quite possibly the most incredible live vocal performance ever to take place, on Planet Earth.
This is her battle cry. She weilded the power and incandescent beauty of her voice, as if she were some sort of Demi goddess superhero from another universe. She is the missing Avenger--or the vocal equivalent to Storm, from the X-MEN.
It's like she wasn't human. Whitney severed the heads of every singer (past present future, male/female) to ever hold a mic. She snatched both Jennifer Holiday and Hudsons wigs with this one. It's nearly impossible for me to listen to other singers renditions of this song, without giggling myself into a coma.
She may be gone, but her voice will live on...even long after the world comes to an end. Her voice will echo through eternity and beyond. I truly beileve this. Simply put. Whitney Houston is the greatest singer of ALL TIME!
The incomparable Phenomenal Witney Houston ! 🌟
This was nothing short of .....idk Amazing isn't even strong enough to describe this performance! She IS incredible, This performance is a testament of her unique talent & dynamic vocal abilities; her emotional & passionate delivery of a song are still unmatched today! Whitney was quite a rare find; I believe even w/o Clive Davis' help, that voice would have lifted her to the world's stage somehow, someway! I feel so blessed to have been alive when the greatest songstress ever graced the stages of the world. I do hope she is finally having the peace denied her while she lived. miss you diva!
I WISH THERE WAS FOOTAGE OF THIS
I AM AT A LOST FOR WORDS.....simply WOW.. from 5:00 to end ... all i can say is regardless of any other artist of high notes or range they can sing, she in her own right shined and owned any other vocalist in this performance with chills i can't describe.
Whitney ❤❤❤ “ I changed my life” too
I don't get into that nonsense about who's better or more talented, because it's all subjective. I will say this Whitney was absolutely at the height of her best form....you just shake your head and say my God!!
Sickening!! JUST AMAZING!!
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Check out this much better HD QUALITY😢 FULL 12 MIN Length and correct picth version. It's even better.
All hail that voice. I mean Whitney's voice was an instrument and a force of nature. Love listening to these audios.
This sounds embarrassing but I literally have tears in my eyes. She was just a youg girl and the technical mastery, power, confidence and precision dispayed here is just beyond imagining.
Whitney was born a star.
Here's the link to the LONDON version she did a month after this one. It's even MORE dramatic, slow burning, powerful, beautiful and downright scary. Make sure you wear headphones and turn it UP. Leave a comment as well (it's my channel)
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@@MasterSuperBlaster thanks a lot.
for some reason i am crying listening to her sing this.. there is something about this womans voice.. its sad and both happy i guess
Agree!