Warrick, Mancel, Jr., 31
Warrick, Mancel, Sr., 31
Warrick, Reverend, 31
Warwick, Dee Dee, 31, 37, 38–40, 41, 45–46, 71
Warwick, Dionne, 10, 31, 37, 38–41, 45, 70, 99, 113, 120, 162, 268
Washington, Denzel, 184–85
Washington, Dinah, 20, 3738
Watkins, Joe, 246–47
Watley, Tommy, 157
Welcome Home Heroes, 146–48, 155, 176
Wexler, Jerry, 41, 46, 47
“Where Do Broken Hearts Go,” 134
Whigham, Carolyn, 268
Whitaker, Forest, 182, 183
White, Ellen “Bae,” 35–36, 57, 60, 83, 124, 145, 149–51, 157, 165, 170, 183, 192, 218, 221, 224, 231, 266, 268
White-King, Brenda, 90
Whitney, 122, 194
Whitney Houston, 116–18, 121–22
Whitney Houston Foundation for Children, 133, 141–42
“Whitney—The Concert for a New South Africa,” 176
“Why Am I Treated So Bad,” 49
Will.i.am, 259
Williams, Ronnie, 27, 32–33
Winans, BeBe, 246
Winans, CeCe, 206, 246
Winans, Marvin, 162, 266
Winfrey, Oprah, 247, 248, 251, 253
Yamaha Music Festival, 96–97
Young, Loretta, 184
“You’re My Fire,” 97
Zager, Michael, 97
About the Author
CISSY HOUSTON is a Grammy Award–winning soul and gospel singer and the mother of the late superstar Whitney Houston. She gained fame as part of the Drinkards, a family gospel group, and revolutionized the “Background Industry” as the founder and leader of the Sweet Inspirations, a well-respected vocal group who provided background vocals for such artists as Luther Vandross, Wishbone Ash, Aretha Franklin, Dusty Springfield, and Elvis Presley. She later enjoyed a successful career as a solo artist. Cissy grew up in Newark, New Jersey, where she raised her family and still lives in the area.
LISA DICKEY has been a freelance ghostwriter and book doctor since 1997. She has helped write and/or edit fourteen published nonfiction books, including six New York Times bestsellers. For more information, please go to www.lisadickey.com.
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REMEMBERING WHITNEY. Copyright © 2013 by Cissy Houston. Foreword copyright © 2013 by Dionne Warwick. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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