Today would have been Whitney Houston‘s 49th birthday. To celebrate the passing of an icon, the cast of her last movie, SPARKLEOmari Hardwick, Derek Luke, and Mike Epps — sang Happy Birthday to Whitney, at the request of former Atlanta madam, CJ, of Bossip.

SPARKLE opens nationwide on August 17.

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