Advertisement News added: 10 May 2012 // by: Film-News.co.uk Newsdesk  Jordin Sparks has recalled trying to mimic songs by Whitney Houston as a child. The two singers star alongside each other in the upcoming movie Sparkle, which Whitney filmed before her death in February. In an interview with Collider before the icon passed but just made public, Jordin described her reaction when she learnt she was working alongside the music icon.