Just days after a number of A-listers paid tribute to the late, great [article id="1679554"]Whitney Houston at her funeral[/article] on Saturday in New Jersey, R&B crooner [artist id="3235468"]Robin Thicke[/artist] decided to pay homage to the singer in his own way.

The singer dropped a cover of Houston's classic track "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)" over the weekend, arranging the song with a piano and his own sweet falsetto voice. Released in November 1995, the original version was the lead single off Houston's "Waiting to Exhale" soundtrack. Thicke's soulful version definitely calls to mind Babyface, who wrote and produced the song for the late star. Noticeably, Thicke changed the song from the third person to the first person, making it a bit more personal.

"I was thinking about Whitney and how incredible she was and remembered I had recorded this song years ago but never released it," Thicke said on Tuesday (February 21) in a statement to MTV News. "When I listened to it again, I was overcome by emotion, because the lyrics express everything I'm feeling right now."

He continued that the song reminds us what was unique about the late singer, who [article id="1679029"]died over Grammy weekend[/article] in Los Angeles. "That's what was so special about Whitney, she had an amazing ability to connect to all of us and at the same time make us feel inspired," he said. "We love Whitney Houston and always will!"

Over the weekend, in a sea of moving tributes to the star from her closest friends -- including Alicia Keys, Stevie Wonder, R. Kelly and gospel greats BeBe and CeCe Winans, Donnie McClurkin and Kim Burrell -- [article id="1679550"]Kevin Costner's speech[/article] about his "The Bodyguard" co-star stood as one of the homegoing's stand-out moments.

"Off you go, Whitney, off you go, escorted by an army of angels to your heavenly father," Costner told the room in tears. "And when you sing before him, don't you worry -- you'll be good enough."

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