Academy Award nominee Jennifer Hudson is preparing her debut album for a Fall 2007 release.

“I will be getting started really soon on that album,” Jennifer told Access host Nancy O’Dell yesterday. “We are still trying to, on the creative side, work it out and pick that right music because I hope to be as successful in music [as I have been in acting].”

“It will be different because I want to show Jennifer in the music,” she said. “I do have a love for [Effie's] vocal style in the music that she sings but I want to incorporate that with the style of today.”

“My style has a lot of soul. [It's] soulful,” she said. “I would like to take that and incorporate it with the music of today and give you those hits that [are] out now but incorporate a lot of soul with vocal singing in it.”

J.H also expressed an interest in performing a duet with Ray J’s rumored lover Whitney Houston:

“I would love to do a duet with Whitney Houston that would be a dream for me,” the Dreamgirl gushed. “Oh my god, Whitney! Where you at Whitney? I want a duet! Please! I would love to work with Whitney Houston.”