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tried to expand her range of what performers could do in many different i was. what is your feeling that she was destined for greatness? we re looking at still images with dien w de dionne warwick. i don t think she was destined for greatness. i think it was something she had to work for. clive davis saw something when he saw her at that new york city at carnegie hall, yes. and took a chance to try to make her into something because you saw a lot of good raw material, dionne warwick being her cousin and cissy houston being her mom, but her album was not a huge hit out of the box. it day budde at it debuted at 166 on the billboard chart to reach number one. he stayed with it. she kept doing the circuit, kept performing, kept pushing on radio and became the whitney houston we all know. but she had to work at it, she had to show she had the stuff to be the icon she became. that s a beautiful lesson being underscored. thanks so much, christopher farley of the w ....

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