The early 2000s saw Ashanti at the pinnacle of her career, boasting a number of features, stupendous album sales, chart-topping singles and a Grammy. Thereafter, label woes, rising competition and a fading genre led the 31-year old into neglect from the public at large. Today, she took the stage during a stop on the David Foster and Friends Tour in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and offered an impressive rendition of Whitney Houston’s “I Have Nothing“, as well as “I Will Always Love You“.

As Ashanti is often appreciated more for her music, rather than her vocal performance-she took today’s performance as an opportunity to convince those, like myself, who aren’t familiar of her vocal prowess.

Peep the clip below…

Okay…so she’s no Whitney and there’s parts of this clip where I was worried, but she’s better than a good bit of what is popular and certainly more advanced than she was before. Growth.

Thoughts?