"America's Next Top Model" runner-up Yaya DaCosta is all done up for the Whitney Houston biopic as photo showed a striking resemblance to the late Grammy winner. Deborah Cox is tapped to sing on the TV show.

"America's Next Top Model" runner-up Yaya DaCosta channeled a young Whitey Houston, based on the photo released by the production team.The makeover was inspired by the late singer's 1987 album cover.

According to E! Online, Yaya "certainly looks the part . . . With curly hair, blue eyeshadow and bright red lips."

The "America's Next Top Model" runner up Yaya DaCosta will act opposite Arlen Escarpeta who will be playing Bobby Brown in the Whitney Houston biopic.

On the other hand, while Whitney Houston's music will be an indispensable part of her life story, it is reported that vocals of the singer herself will not be used in the biopic. Instead, based on a news reported by E! News, R&B singer Deborah Cox will lend her voice to Houston's lyrics.

Mark Malkin of E! News has revealed that a Lifetime rep (the network that will show the biopic) said that "music rights and clearances are still being worked out," but Cox will be providing the "vocal tracks."

Angela Basset hinted to Entertainment Weekly almost a month ago that the biopic is set to focus on her marriage to Bobby and her addiction to drugs. Angela Basset has said, however, that she does not intend to include the death of the "Million Dollar Bill" singer in the story.

"No. That's one of the things I do appreciate about the story at least, with this first story about her. We're not interested in dragging her life again through, you know, the muck. She had to play out her choices, and the consequences of them, in a very hot, glaring spotlight, but we're not interested in dragging that through again."

While Whitney Houston's biopic is still up in the making, it is already set to be released by Lifetime TV network in 2015.