Feb. 8, 2026, 8:05 p.m. ET
Singer Coco Jones dropped a Whitney Houston tribute in front of everyone watching the Super Bowl, and we might have missed it.
Ahead of the 2026 Super Bowl, Jones took to the field at Levi’s Stadium to perform a powerful rendition of “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” The South Carolina-born artist absolutely crushed it, but her outfit might have been even better.
Jones was dressed in all white, wearing a jacket with stripes across it, a long, flowy skirt and heels. To the untrained eye, it might have seemed like just a nice outfit, but it was a sneaky good tribute to Whitney Houston‘s 1991 national anthem Super Bowl performance. Houston wore a white and red two-piece tracksuit to belt out one of the best performances in Super Bowl history.
Here’s the side-by-side look of Jones and Houston:
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