A brand new documentary and posthumous album will discover Whitney Houston‘s lifelong connection to gospel music. Good Morning America reported on Thursday (Feb. 9) that the album, I Go to the Rock, will function six beforehand unreleased tracks, together with the upcoming, upbeat first style, “Testimony.”
GMA stated the complete album is slated to drop later this 12 months, with host Lara Spencer describing the gathering for instance of the late R&B pop celebrity “singing her old flame: gospel songs.” A brief preview snippet of “Testimony” finds Houston singing over a driving, spare beat, her voice as clear and robust as ever, however stripped of the luxurious pop manufacturing that marked her secular hits.
There may even reportedly be an accompanying documentary that can chronicle Houston’s longtime dedication to gospel, from her first efficiency at a neighborhood church by the discharge of the soundtrack to 1996’s The Preacher’s Spouse, which topped the Billboard high gospel albums chart and stays the best-selling gospel album of all time.
Houston, who died in 2012 at age 48, launched seven albums and two soundtracks over the course of her profession, together with 1992’s multi-platinum soundtrack to her starring automobile The Bodyguard. Since her loss of life the singer’s label has issued the 2012 biggest hits assortment I Will At all times Love You: The Better of Whitney Houston, in addition to 2014 stay assortment, Her Best Performances, in addition to a reissue of the Bodyguard soundtrack with remixes and stay takes on the album’s songs.
In December of final 12 months RCA issued the soundtrack to the Houston biopic I Wanna Dance With Any individual, with remixes of among the singer’s largest hits and a beforehand unheard cowl of CeCe Winans’ “Don’t Cry” (titled “Don’t Cry For Me.”) In 2019, Kygo scored a worldwide smash along with his dance-ready remix of “Greater Love,” which laid remixed Houston vocals on a canopy of the 1986 Steve Winwood hit over pounding EDM beats.
Take heed to the preview of “Testimony” under.
