1. Tell Me Something Good (With Chaka Khan)

2. Musicology (With Prince)

1. Something in Commom (With Bobby Brown)

1. Something in Commom (With Bobby Brown)

The heavyweight name on was Wonder, but negotiations for the voice of the spirit opened well before he appeared onstage. They began when BeBe Winans, of the gospel act Bebe and Cece Winans, jumped down into the audience. Leaving his sister onstage in mid-vamp, he ducked into the second row and, looking for a singer to share the moment, pulled out Whitney Houston. The maneuver was as spontaneous as a presidential photo op, but heck, faith was in effect here.

Taking the microphone tentatively at first, Houston picked up on Cece's vamp. "Feels good to me," Cece sang, filling her lungs with the four or five syllables of the first word, and letting the last word sit on the tip of her tongue. Houston sang the phrase back to her, rounding it out, sweetening it. Then Cece took it up again, laying even more damage on the same line. And back to Houston.

With each exchange, the singers matched each other's embellishments, and added additional flourishes. And each time, they pushed the phrase further By John Leland from rational language and into irrational communication. The histrionics of gospel and gospel-based singing, however impressive, aren't empty showboating, but voyages toward a kind of divine revelation; the singers seek to tell a secret that human language cannot comprehend, except maybe through parables. Houston and Winans batted the phrase back and forth roughly, physically until it spoke without words. Houston may make tepid records, but she makes dynamic cameos.

(Newsday)

1. Unknown Song(s) (With BeBe Winans)

1. Unknown Song (With Al Jarreau)

• Surprise guest at BeBe & CeCe Winans' concert.

• Surprise guest at BeBe & CeCe Winans' concert.

• Surprise guest at BeBe & CeCe Winans' concert. This was the same night Whitney met the Winans for the first time at the NAACP Image Awards.

Setlist:

1. Tomorrow (With Cissy Houston)

Notes:

• Surprise guest at Cissy Houston's concert.