--- title: Christina Aguilera Sings Beyonce, Rihanna, Whitney Houston description: Christina Aguilera lent her powerhouse vocals to some amazing diva impersonations on 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show', from Whitney to Beyoncé. canonical: https://time.com/4337654/christina-aguilera-diva-impressions/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-16T20:54:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:32:27.913Z og:title: There Is No Diva That Christina Aguilera Cannot Impersonate og:description: She sings Adele, Beyoncé and Rihanna og:url: https://time.com/4337654/christina-aguilera-diva-impressions/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: There Is No Diva That Christina Aguilera Cannot Impersonate twitter:description: She sings Adele, Beyoncé and Rihanna twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Christina Aguilera Ace Whitney Houston, Beyoncé and Adele Impressions on _Ellen_ > Sponsored content. 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[_The Voice_](http://time.com/3506322/christina-aguilera-the-voice-season-8/?iid=sr-link6) coach had 60 seconds to impersonate or describe a range of divas, which ran the gamut from Madonna to Adele. This gave us small but mighty samplings of Aguilera’s takes on hits like [Rihanna’s “Work”](http://time.com/4232692/rihanna-work-video-drake-anti/) and Katy Perry’s “I Kissed A Girl.” However, Aguilera lost the game in the end when she couldn’t sing or name any of Barbra Streisand’s songbook. 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