New Video: “Celebrate” feat. Whitney Houston & Jordin Sparks

About a week ago, Sony Pictures released the official music video for the Whitney Houston-Jordin Sparks duet “Celebrate”, which is the first single of the soundtrack to the film “Sparkle” –in theatres August 17, and the last song recorded by Houston.

In a recent interview with BET.com, Sparks describes the story behind the concept for the video: “We planned on it being Whitney and me, but she’s not here, so we wanted to make it a tribute to her. So it’s fun, upbeat and exciting — there are clips from the movie and the main cast is in the video, too. It’s me, Tika Sumpter, Carmen Ejogo, Derek Luke, Omari Hardwick, Goapele is in it and Mike Epps. We’re all just having a good time [and the premise is] they all come over to my house singing along to Whitney’s music. And we’re missing her and celebrating her as well. It’s actually pretty simple, but when you watch it and hear her voice along with it, it makes it so much more”.