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[Chillaxinmia]

Here's Tevin Campbell obviously imitating Whitney's LIVE renditions of her classic GLOA. It was cleary a VERY BAD VOCAL night for Tevin and he must've been battling a sore throat or some other ailment to his vocals because he is a remarkable vocalist in his own right both back then and to this present day (as I've heard him sing recently). I always thought Whitney was a huge influence on his vocal styling as well as his stage persona and this performance was just one more bit of evidence of that fact.

[ILookToHou]

I loved this!! Yeah, he definitely wasn't on top of his game this night, but it still sounds damn good. And the end is a straight up note-for-note attempt at Whitney's version at the 1990 Arista Anniversary.

[holly1971]

He had vocal problems in the above performance.

Listen to him sing this. One of my favorite variations of "O' Holy Night" (Besides Ms. Whitney's--lol)

[WHITFAN4LIFE]

Chillaxinmia, on 01 April 2013 - 09:17 PM, said:

Here's Tevin Campbell obviously imitating Whitney's LIVE renditions of her classic GLOA. It was cleary a VERY BAD VOCAL night for Tevin and he must've been battling a sore throat or some other ailment to his vocals because he is a remarkable vocalist in his own right both back then and to this present day (as I've heard him sing recently). I always thought Whitney was a huge influence on his vocal styling as well as his stage persona and this performance was just one more bit of evidence of that fact.

I have always said that Tevin was not only influenced by Whitney vocally, but even his stage presence, early in his career was very Whitney-like.