Hear Frank Ocean's Moving Cover of Aaliyah's 'At Your Best (You Are Love)' [LISTEN]

On Jan. 16, treasured R&B/soul singer Aaliyah would have turned 36, and to honor her life, Frank Ocean covered the One In A Million singer's rendition of "At Your Best (You Are Love)," an Isley Brothers track from 1976 that was covered by Aaliyah in 1994. Frank Ocean took to his active Tumblr account to share the stripped-down and sounful cover. The Channel Orange singer dishes a moving falsetto, which he titles "You Are Luhh," that is a fitting tribute to the R&B singer who was taken from us too soon. His version seems to transition at the end into something unrelated — possibly new music from Ocean. Listen to the rendition below via Ocean's Tumblr.

A biopic was released about Aaliyah at the end of 2014 by Lifetime. It was widely criticized by those who knew her, including Timbaland who called the film "bulls--t." The film was unable to clear any of the music from Aaliyah's discography, dooming it from the start and it was widely perceived as inadequately portraying her as a person.

Fans have been eagerly awaiting some sort of news about a follow up to Ocean's breakthrough 2012 album Channel Orange. In November, he revealed the lo-fi "Memrise" through his Tumblr page, but he has kept progress on any progress on new music very close to the vest thus far.

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Frank Ocean, Aaliyah, Lil B, Timbaland