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Stop everything because a Whitney Houston song just dropped—and it will immediately make you want to dance with somebody.
Just in time to send you into the weekend with your car windows down, a decades-old track from the late musical icon is here. The song is a cover of Steve Winwood‘s 1986 hit, “Higher Love,” newly remixed by Kygo.
Clive Davis, who first signed the songstress to Arista Records, teased the release on social media Thursday. According to a video the legendary music executive shared, Houston performed a cover of the song back in 1990 during her Feels So Right Tour in Japan and re-recorded the song a year later. Though, according to Davis, it had been intended for her third studio album, I’m Your Baby Tonight, Houston’s version was never officially released save for as a bonus cut in Japan.
“When [producer] Narada Michael Walden sent me ‘Higher Love’ with the Whitney vocal, we didn’t want her being a cover artist at that time,” Davis explained to Rolling Stone.
Now, nearly 30 years later—and seven years since her untimely death—the song is officially out for everyone to hear, with a Kygo twist.
“I’m incredibly honored to have been able to work on this amazing vocal from one of the most legendary artists of all time!” the famed DJ and record producer wrote on social media. “Hope you guys love it as much as I do.”
And, with a possible touring hologram and album of unreleased music in discussion for the superstar’s estate, which reportedly signed with Primary Wave Music Publishing recently, we’ll be hearing a lot more of Whitney soon.
“The current cultural environment has been thirsty for something uplifting and inspiring,” Pat Houston, Whitney’s sister-in-law and executor of her estate, told Rolling Stone. “Who better to inspire than Whitney, the most exhilarating vocalist of all time?”