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The late icon's music will be featured in Angela Bassett's Lifetime movie, but not her voice.

It takes a brave soul to take on a Whitney Houston classic.

Angela Bassett has reportedly found an R&B singer with the chops to re-record some of Houston's most memorable tracks in her upcoming Lifetime biopic. E! Online broke the news Tuesday that while Houston's music will be featured in the film, her voice will not. Enter: Deborah Cox, the R&B singer who will provide the singing vocals on the film while America's Next Top Model alum Yaya DaCosta will play Houston on screen.

Do you recognize Cox? Here are 11 things to know about the girl giving Lifetime's Whitney her voice.

1. Like Houston, Cox was discovered by music mogul Clive Davis. He signed her to Arista Records in the 1990s after seeing her sing with Celine Dion.

2. She collaborated with Houston herself back in 2000 on the duet "Same...

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Winter’S Bone (2010)

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Synopsis: In director Debra Granik’s unflinching noir drama set deep in the Ozarks, resilient teen Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence) goes on the trail of her missing, drug-dealing father when his absence jeopardizes the family’s safety. Her deadbeat dad has a key court date pending, and Ree is determined that he show up — despite the objections of the insular Dolly clan. The film earned Oscar and Independent Spirit Award nods for Best Picture and for Lawrence.

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Pitch Black (2000)

Streaming Available: 07/31/2011

Synopsis: In director Debra Granik’s unflinching noir drama set deep in the Ozarks, resilient teen Ree...

Bad Boy mogul tells MTV News clip for Drake-assisted Diddy-Dirty Money track will tackle unrequited love.

By Jayson Rodriguez, with reporting by Ricky Louis

Diddy-Dirty Money on the set of "Loving You No More"

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The train is finally leaving the station. Diddy has set December 14 as the release date for his Dirty Money project Last Train to Paris. Despite a run of hits from the album, including "Angels," "Love Come Down" and "Hello, Good Morning," the disc's drop date has seen a handful of postponements.

Now, the hip-hop mogul is readying the video for "Loving You No More" featuring Drake, the next single from the LP. Last week in Miami, Diddy joined forces with director Gil Green to help tell the next chapter in the Last Train to Paris story.

"The concept of the song is about when you love somebody so much that you forget about yourself,...

A music video in support of P. Diddy's new single "Hello, Good Morning" has been premiered during CBS' Ncaa basketball championship. The clip is heavily inspired by basketball, featuring the rap mogul performing the song alongside his group Dirty Money with scenes of a basketball game sometimes intercepting.

Beside featuring Dawn Richard and Kalenna from the Dirty Money, "Hello, Good Morning" also has additional verses from T.I. This track is one of the songs set to appear in Diddy's upcoming sixth studio album "Last Train to Paris" and was showcased live for the very first time on an episode of "American Idol" season 9.

"Last Train to Paris" itself reportedly is slated to come out across the United States this summer. "Angels" and "Love Come Down" are two other singles expected to be included in the upcoming release.

Another song, this time called "Love Come Down", from P. Diddy's Hip-Hop group Dirty Money has got a music video. Diddy and his bandmates Kalenna and Danity Kane's former member Dawn Richard appear in all-black gear.

"It reminds me of the old Bad Boy videos, when you saw shiny suits and you said, 'This is official'," Richard told MTV on the set of the video earlier last month. "It felt like a club on TV. This is what it is. It's like the futuristic '90s. It's raw - that's what the record is and our sound is."

"It's what love is. Love is like that. You're up, down, around, in your face - that's kinda what this video is. We take you to a place where it's just three people, black, and it's telling you a story. I miss videos when people told you exactly what the song was about.

'It reminds me of the old Bad Boy videos,' Dawn Richard says of the performance-focused clip.

By Shaheem Reid, with reporting by Sway Calloway

Diddy-Dirty Money

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Diddy says he's just taking his time. His Last Train to Paris doesn't arrive until next year, but he's going to continue to put out music and get the audience ready for his LP.

"We're just trying to roll it out properly," Diddy told MTV News. "I wanted a chance to lay out songs for you. A lot of singles we putting out now — that's the introduction. We didn't even get to that Train music. We're hitting you with warning shots, letting you know we're here.

"I wanted to make sure I told the story, I took my time and didn't want to alienate people," he added. "As soon as you hit [the fans] with something that's too far, they be...

'All our records are gonna be about love, feelings and emotion,' mogul says on the set of Diddy-Dirty Money's new video, 'Love Come Down.'

By Shaheem Reid, with additional reporting by Matt Elias

Diddy-Dirty Money

Photo: MTV News

Diddy insists his new group is more than a trio. The legendary mogul says Diddy-Dirty Money is a "look, sound, feeling, emotion," and wants it to be a movement.

On Tuesday (October 20) in Los Angeles, the group shot the video for "Love Come Down."

"Finding love, losing love and getting love back again," Dawn Richard, formerly of Danity Kane, said about the 2010 album Last Train to Paris. "This single off of that album demonstrates that. 'Love Come Down' ... Kalenna and I were in the studio vibing and Puff walks in. He was like, 'I love that melody.' It just fell into place.

It is official, P. Diddy has been signed to Interscope Records. Rumor that he sealed a deal with the giant recording company actually sparked days before he opened up about his departure from Atlantic Records.

"I am excited to be partnering with Jimmy Iovine and the Interscope Records family on all my future music ventures which include my career as a recording artist and upcoming record label," Diddy said in a press release. "With this new deal, I look forward to signing music's next great superstars to the label and continuing the legacy of making great music at my new home. This is the beginning of a new musical era for Bad Boy."

Jimmy who is Chairman of Interscope Geffen A&M also offered his comment stating, "Puff is a rare person in the music industry today, that can move the culture in many areas - fashion, TV, music - as well as making records.