AI is helping bring Whitney Houston’s vocals back on stage – this time with a live orchestra (www.techradar.com)

"The Voice of Whitney: A Symphonic Celebration" is a national tour that brings Whitney Houston’s original vocals back to the stage by using AI to isolate her voice from fully mixed recordings and pairing those stems with a live orchestra and curated footage. Moises, an AI music-production company known for stem separation, used models trained to peel vocals from mixed audio—crucial because many of Houston’s multitrack masters are lost—allowing the estate to restore clarity and emotional nuance that would have been technically impossible until recently. The project is estate‑endorsed and constrained to Houston’s real catalog, rather than fabricating new performances. Technically, the show showcases how advances in source-separation models push fidelity to a level suitable for live orchestration, setting a new bar for posthumous performances and highlighting an "audio-first" path that avoids the visual pitfalls of holograms. For the AI/ML community this is both a milestone and a prompt: stem separation is commercially viable and artistically impactful, but it also accelerates ethical and legal questions about refurbishing legacy catalogs, consent, and how audiences will recalibrate expectations for authenticity in live shows and cross‑era collaborations.