- A new AI-Driven Concert Tour Isolates Whitney Houston’s original vocals and pairs them with a live orchestra
- The technology used to reconstruct her voice sets a new bar to posthum shows
- AI-Perfected Artistry can reshape what the audience expects from live performance
Thirteen years after Whitney Houston’s death, her voice is back on stage thanks to AI. “The Voice of Whitney: A Symphonic Celebration” starts a national tour with Houston’s vocals isolated using AI and performed with a live orchestra. It is intended to be a heartfelt tribute that is timed for the 40th anniversary of her debut.
This show is different from other attempts to revive artists with technology because it would have been impossible until the latest AI goes on. Many of Houston’s original multitrack recordings are lost, so it is more difficult to recreate them with any allegiance than just making a hologram of Houston.
AI Music Production Company Moises, which specializes in voice separation, peeling vocals from fully mixed soundtracks. Using AI models trained to isolate sound, extracted Moises Houston’s vocals from the mixed tracks. The concert pairs Whitney’s voice with live orchestration and curated footage.
“We knew this was going to be done right,” said Pat Houston, executor of the property of Whitney E. Houston, in a statement. “Moises and our Partner Park Avenue artists raised the idea of the heart, care and creative expertise that Whitney always embodied. The result is something really special: a gift to many years of fans and a strong introduction to a new generation that discovered her voice.”
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This is the world we now overturn. Houston’s new showture through November and stopped in cities from Waukegan to Palm Desert. Production promises favorites like Higher loveAt I have nothingand I will always love you, Reintroduced with a level of clarity that only modern AI can provide.
“We had to isolate Whitney’s vocals from fully mixed footage without compromising on the emotional power of her performance,” Moise’s CEO Geraldo Ramos said in a statement. “A concert like this one simply would not have been possible five years ago before the Vot Separation Technology reached the precision and the belief we are now able to deliver.”
Of course, Whitney is not the first posthumous star to tour again, and this is not even the first tour since her passing. Her hologram hit the road in 2020. But the new one stands out to be audio -first and free of the visual awareness that holograms are still not conquered.
It can be among the most respectful AI-led performances based on the estate’s fully threatened endorsement. Unlike some AI music projects where dead artists are forced to ‘collaborate’ on songs they never knew existed, this show holds to Whitney’s real catalog. It simply presents it, cleansed and restored, in a way where her original recordings could never be.
It’s still hard not to think about the next steps. If voice separation gets this well, what should stop every classic artist’s catalog from being renovated? Will we see AI -Duettes with older vocal sliced and served over new tracks? Will 2030 bring to the road ‘Frank Sinatra sings Sza’?
