By the time the chorus kicks in, with a full choir, you’d expect her to break into a sermon-stopping vocal run. Her version of the standard ”His Eye Is on the Sparrow” begins with just piano and a little bit of church organ, as Houston testifies, in a gorgeously rippling solo, that Jesus is watching over her. So it’s powerful to hear Houston belting out a gospel song for the last time on record on Sparkle: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Salim Akil’s remake of the 1976 musical about three sisters who form a girl group. Sadly, that’s where she stopped singing, too - when she died in February, her funeral was staged at New Hope, with the congregation harmonizing along to her favorite hymns. ![]() ![]() ![]() Whitney Houston first started singing as a young girl in the gospel choir at the New Hope Baptist Church in New Jersey.
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