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, I Wanna Dance With Somebody, has dropped, starring Naomie Ackie as the voice of a generation. This content can also be viewed on the site it from.The trailer begins with legendary record executive Clive Davis, portrayed by Stanley Tucci, exiting a limo and entering a small concert venue. A young Whitney is unexpectedly thrust onstage to sing when her mother Cissy Houston (played by Tamara Tunie) loses her voice and can't sing as planned.

Chris Martin sits at the piano for a pared down performance during the 2025 Grammy Awards on Sunday (February 2) at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.

Grammys 2025 honored the ones we’ve lost.The In Memoriam segment featured Chris Martin singing the Coldplay song “All My Love” as the ceremony honored music stars who died over the past year, including Liam Payne and Toby Keith.The tribute began with snippets of footage of Payne including from his time as a member of One Direction.Martin’s performance then honored more Grammy winners who passed last year, including Kris Kristofferson, Steven Albini, Cissy Houston, John Mayall, Dickey Betts, Angela Bofill, Joe Bonsall, Fatman Scoop, Sandra Crouch, Richard Sherman, Joe Chambers, Duane Eddy, Sam Moore, Frankie Beverley, Rich Homie Quan, Bob Newhart and Wayne Osmond.The segment ended by honoring Keith, who died in February 2024 at age 62 after a battle with stomach cancer.Payne, meanwhile, tragically died at age 31 on Oct. 16, 2024.

Whitney Houston‘s mother Cissy has died at the age of 91.Houston died on Monday (October 7) while under hospice care for Alzheimer’s disease, her daughter-in-law Pat Houston confirmed in a statement. “Our hearts are filled with pain and sadness.

following her death at 91.Brown, 55, married to Cissy’s late daughter, Whitney Houston, from 1992 to 2007. The New Edition star shared a joint statement with his wife, Alicia Etheredge-Brown, about Cissy’s passing on Monday.“Sending love and blessings to the Houston family on this great loss,” the statement to People. “May she rest in Peace and Power.

Cissy Houston, the mother of late American singer Whitney Houston, has died at the age of 91. Cissy’s daughter-in-law Pat Houston confirmed her passing in a statement, it read: “Our hearts are filled with pain and sadness. We lost the matriarch of our family.

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A legendary life cut short. Whitney Houston‘s vocals were so powerful that producer Clive Davis famously called her “The Voice” — and her fellow singers agreed she more than deserved the title.

Audiences got their first look at Naomi Ackie as the late iconic American singer Whitney Houston in the new trailer for "I Wanna Dance With Somebody." The biopic is directed by Kasi Lemmons and written by Anthony McCarten, the creator of the critically acclaimed film "Bohemian Rhapsody." Featured in the trailer alongside Ackie is Ashton Sanders who plays Bobby Brown, Stanley Tucci as Davis, Clarke Peters as John Houston, Whitney’s father, and Tamara Tunie as Cissy Houston. With executive producers Clive Davis and Pat Houston, the singer's longtime manager, the film follows a young Whitney from her obscure music career to the height of her fame.

Talk of a Whitney Houston movie has been in the air ever since her tragic and untimley death in 2012. This December the long-awaited movie arrives and there's a trailer to stoke anticipation.

On Thursday, Sony Pictures unveiled the first trailer for its fully-authorized Whitney Houston biopic - I Wanna Dance with Somebody - but fans were concerned that Naomi Ackie didn't resemble her enough.The British 30-year-old (The Score, Master of None) 'put in a year of rigorous preparation' to embody the late R&B belter and also executive produced Kasi Lemmons' film hitting US theaters December 21.And while Whitney fans praised Naomi's speaking voice - they took to Twitter to say she looked more like Houston's Cinderella castmate Brandy, Heather Headley, or Alfre Woodard. What do you think? On Thursday, Sony Pictures unveiled the first trailer for its fully-authorized Whitney Houston biopic - I Wanna Dance with Somebody - but fans were concerned that Naomi Ackie didn't resemble her enoughThe preview begins in 1983 with Cissy Houston (Tamara Tunie) telling her 20-year-old daughter nicknamed 'Nippy' to sing for her at her New York nightclub, Sweetwaters, because she had lost her voice.Whitney is then seen singing the first line of How Will I Know in front of RCA Music Group CEO Clive Davis (Stanley Tucci), which is historically inaccurate.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterSony is bringing the spirit of Whitney Houston to theaters.The studio has released the first trailer for “I Wanna Dance With Somebody,” a biographical drama about the life and times of the iconic singer.“The End of the F***ing World” star Naomi Ackie has the daunting task of portraying the legendary vocal powerhouse in the film, along with a cast that includes Ashton Sanders as Bobby Brown and Stanley Tucci as Clive Davis. Clarke Peters will be playing John Houston, Whitney’s father, and Tamara Tunie will be portraying Cissy Houston, Whitney’s mother.Sony describes “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” as a “no-holds-barred portrait of the complex and multifaceted woman behind The Voice.” The film recounts the story of a New Jersey choir girl who became one of the best-selling and most awarded recording artists of all time.

Didn’t We Almost Have It All: In Defense of Whitney Houston” (Abrams Press), out Tuesday.Feeling pressure to conform to her strict religious upbringing and the norms of the time, Whitney hid her sexuality from the public till her tragic death, which happened 10 years ago this week. “Because her music didn’t fit squarely in the boxes expected of a Black girl making music in the ’80s, she was seen as not Black enough. She was ridiculed.

There are some new additions to the cast of the upcoming Whitney Houston biopic, I Wanna Dance with Somebody!

Whitney Houston and Bobbi Kristina Brown were like mother, like daughter — in good times and in bad.

Whitney Houston has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.