BeBe Winans on "The Whitney I Knew", CeCe, and "America, America" 

Whitney will ALWAYS be my number one lady in ALL artists past or present! I love Whitney for Whitney!! :)

Love covers all. God bless CeCe and BeBe. They really love Whitney.

Well done Bebe, though Lee Hawkins TRIED to get you to dish dirt or speak negatively about Whitney, you maintained your love and respect for her. You are a true friend, loyal to the end, unlike many others who call themselves "friends" but threw her under the bus for a dollar. One thing that people need to realize is that a fault is a fault, no matter how big or small WE may want to categorize them. Being on drugs is no worst than gossiping, lying, stealing, cheating etc, they are all wrong and WILL keep you out of the kingdom of God.

such an educated man and artist. a joy to listen to him.

I ENJOYED THIS INTERVIEW IT WAS INSPIRING&INSIGHTFUL&I SEE MORE OF WHITNEY'S FUN&LAUGHTER,NO WONDER SHE SANG THE SONG I'LL HASTEN TO HIS THRONE SO POWERFULL BECAUSE SHE KNEW&UNDERSTOOD THAT GOD LOVES HER.REST IN PEACE WHITNEY WE ALL LOVE YOU!

That BeBe Winans is sooooooooooooo anointed, articulate, and handsome.

I agree with BeBe I was caught off guard too. I pray for Whitney to get her life back on track and she did and then she passed

When someone has a voice like Whitney, who cares if she didn't have the patience to write a song. Singing was her gift and if I remember correctly, she did have co-writing credit on a few of her lesser known songs.

I still cry until this day

I read the book. It was fantastic.

Wise words from BeBe, As he says No-One could know the true pressures Whitney had to face when you are The greatest. when No-one around you can sing to your level. then know at that level theres only one way to go.Not to mention the pressure to deliver concerts even when your on an off day. These people shouldnt be pushed to the level that is forced upon them. there could be shorter tour dates. or more time out in between to give rest to both person and voice.

Very good interview BeBe Winans. I love this. Great Work ❤❤

Well said, "Labels makes no difference as long as the music is being played.". That part! 🌹

Just stumbled into Bebe while surfing the wave of yet another RU-vid deep dive and he’s so clearly one of the most quick brilliant and REAL minds I’ve ever dang seen documented. Wow

Whitney is singing with the angels.

I just discovered this interview. Concerning “celebrity,” or being considered a “star,” and addiction, I believe the true pressure that is never talked about is the fact that the person is put on a pedestal, in society, when in fact they are a slave to the industry. Basically, you ARE controlled by the industry. And many try to escape this reality by using something to help them deal with reality: eg., money (bragging), “living large,” and drugs or alcohol. Sadly, drug and drink are the easiest remedy that is readily available to fill the reality. As he said, in the “9 to 5” world, when YOU are sick or when you need a personal day, YOU are in enough control to say, “I cannot work today.” The lie associated with the celebrity status is when millions are telling a person, “You are a star!” When in fact, reality says to the person, “But ‘the man’ owns me. Others tell me when to work, how to dress, when to speak, and what to say or not say.” Executives have the power and they always remind the “star” of this fact: who made you???

It kind of doesn't matter that she didn't write her songs--as long as she didn't take songwriting credits for them, which I doubt she did. When you can take a song written and performed by someone else but when YOU sing it, it becomes YOUR anthem (y'all know what song I'm speaking of), then your GIFT is YOUR VOICE and NOTHING else matters.

That was a very interesting interview. I want to read that book on Whitney!

Great Interview & I appreciate BeBe Winans’ take on his personal relationship with the wonderful Whitney Houston. Today 2-11-2018 makes six years since her departure on planet earth but I believe she’s with King Jesus now sang in’ ....yes sang in’ praises to God.

Who cares about writing when you're a goddess at singing? She was in a league of her own as a singer/vocalist.

Bebe! DOLLY PARTON released 'For God and Country' in 2003. It was a patriotic album!!!!!! Love WHITNEY too!!!!

I have always told CeCe that I am her biggest fan.I Waite on one from the both and her cd.

I Love Bebe + CeDe Always Love Whitney whether she wrote Songs are Not' Love all the Music from you all' God Will Do what we can't do' Amen AMen Still Love you All Music and Still Love Whitney

Thank You Be Be God Bless You always....

Friends are supposed to protect each other

Angelical voice, bebe winans

He loved her.

Amen Bebe.

Even though i dislike the idea Bebe tried to implicate The Voice Miss Whitney Houston about her not writing her own songs and raises Mariah Carey's flag for writing and singing her own songs, i should just say that even with Mariah writing and performing her own songs she could never in her wildest dreams do with a song what Whitney did, wheter Whitney wrote it herself or if its someone else's song. Mariah cannot be named in the same sentence as Whitney (im not hating on Mariah,i love her too but im just stating the obvious) and as Bebe himself said on Whitney's funeral: she was famous before them and even when she didnt have to she offered to be a background singer for him and Cece. What does that tell you about her soul, her selfishness to help a brother and sister out, looking out for them even though she had a tough life herself.

I like the interviewer...he seems like a really nice guy

MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ALL HAVE A FACET TO EXPRESS OF WHITNEY&WAS&STILL IS BELOVED BY ALL SO THERE IS NO NEED FOR CONTROVERSY.THERE ARE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR ALL WHETHER WE'RE MOTHER,FATHER,SISTER,BROTHER,FRIEND, STRANGER ETC.BLESSINGS BEBE WINANS KEEP BEEN A PIONEER!BLESSINGS

People just see and hear what they want to see and hear.Bebe never meant any harm towards sweet Whitney.She would've mentioned it herself about not being a song writer but only loved to sing the beautiful written songs.

I enjoyed this interview. I felt the host wanted to drill down into a more private topic of discussion. But Bebe kept the conversation moving in a respectable professional direction.

We all have difficulties in life. Can you imagine being in her with all that pressure and people selling you out for money. Whitney is anointed and is in Heaven singing with the angels.

I prefer Gladys over Aretha tho! I love natural tones over headtones

Although I think BeBe was just being matter of fact with his comments on Whitney, I do think they come off as a slight to her. Yes writing songs can be lucrative but revenue from selling CDs and merchandise is lucrative as well. Making money on the road for someone as big as Whitney is lucrative as well. Whitney put Bebe and CeCe into the mainstream and she deserves more tact from BeBe.

I wish the interviewer stop saying that Bebe and Whitney could relate. Bebe has never sung in front of over 50,000 people in a stadium. Whitney was a megastar and she is held as the Greatest Female Vocalist of All Time. Everybody comes after Whitney. I don't like how Bebe tried to make it seem like Whitney was inferior as an artist just because she didn't write as well. When you can sell over 200 million albums world wide, have 11 number 1 Billboard Top 100 singles, and 24 years later still the biggest selling female single in the history of music that's all you need is your golden voice. Bebe I like you and all but don't give yourself too much. You are not word renown your a celebrated gospel artist and song writer. Don't give it too much.

Interesting. Thanks for posting.

This interviewer is working my last nerves, he is digging trying to get "exclusive" from Be Be and BeBe wouldn't speak specifically. You can talk until you are blue in the face to a person facing addiction and if they are not ready, they are not ready. I do believe Whitney was moving in the direction of recovery but some people have relapses before they get to totally sobriety. I give Be Be credit, if she trusted him as a confidante while she was living he should be the same after she is gone.

It seemed like the reporter was focusing on the negative part of her life more than a positive

Hello 🎉

bebe is so cute....

he dicussed writing a book at the funeral???

I luh huh huhve me some Bebe Winans! has the voice of a lion!

It just doesnt ring honest and regardless of what anyone says Cissy Houston is her mother and has every right to write a book on the child she birth raised and guided for as long as she could. Also when he speaks of this sanctuary, why not keep it? If it truly meant so much. I mean these are just my feelings and I may be wrong but I have listened to him lately and his vibe towards the way he verbalize her memory has changed slightly.

I think everyone is capitalizing from her death even her own family. The Houston show that is coming on Lifetime (which I will be watching) but I believe they are capitalizing from her death. I think it is inappropriate but where there is money there's a way

5:38

He made a funny.

Waiting on the book about his brother and father...or would that not make money?

Well, he already started that he was a smart business man. Writing the three songs on his new album, writing one of Whitney's songs, etc. So to me, this whole interview was about money. For him.

5:47... You're welcome

if you go to the bookstore you find a lot of books on Whitney Houston and these are people that did not know her. I read some of these books and they are terrible. So if you get someone that knew her and writes what he knew about her i don't think there is nothing wrong with that.. At least we get a real and positive perspective and not a repetition of what we already knew.

Lee Hawkins looks like tiki barber.

I luv Bebe..but he kept avoiding the question...He knew about her "habit" what and how did he try to help her???

When you bad all by yourself you don’t need nothing else including writing a song you write it she sing it and yeah I’ll make millions how about that

Hmmm he shouldve asked Mariah for the money to buy his first house then. Whitney one-dimensional????? Please she made more money than BeBe would know what to do with.

Yes! Family and Friends will sell you out. Even tell bold faced lies on you to make a few dollars off of their association to you.

Who allowed my Baby to have a wardrobe malfunction?

I dont know I just feel as though he comes off smug and arrogant mostly in his comparisons between she and Mariah Carey and the nonchalant way he addresses Cissy's reaction to the book. Someone who really was close to her and cared like he says he did should have made sure that it was okay with her family. I dont believe for a second he mentioned a book to Cissy at the funeral being that she was so grief stricken Bobbi Kris helped her in and she almost fell out walking behind the casket.

Is it only me or is most of her so called friends writing books and making a fortune because they know they will sell out because it,s about thebmost loved singer of all time whitney he was the only one who wouod not have her known for drug habit but for her music kindness charity which is forgotten about here and please leave her rest in peace she rhe highest price for her fame it did not come cheap finally lee you are one for getting the dirty details the more scandal why not b put the spotlight on her one failing but did she fail her fans did she get too big as to forget the tiny little church she came from town no she did not so as i say lee you want a story go find out the real reason this beautiful woman was destroyed and murdered yes murdered get your teeth into that and finally as i said the real reason she got on drugs which was all you were intetested in the real reason the abuse by her brother not only on her but her daughter the cover up by her mother you want a story here it is nice and juicy forget she was an icon an incredible mother friend and humanitarian god no just dwell on the nasty hwr casket that was low lousey write what you shouod write about and not what has been written about and no real reason why well now you have it oh the biggey because after all more dirt she had a daughter who has now come forward investigate or get it done for you but write the real story that destroyed a beutiful innocent soul

The interview was horrible!!! Whitney's struggles were her struggles and no one could change her life but her if that is what she wanted. She is gone let her rest and the interviewer is joke for thinking she was going to change because of a intervention.

this interviewer is very annoying. just trying to get a bunch of info on her. why did he get to go to her funeral?

Whitney? One-dimensional?? You have to be kidding me! How shady!

who gives a sh... Thats how is supposed to be, song writers write for the singers. now all singers/rappers want t write their own "so-called" music

SMDH America America...hes right where he belongs. I bought and read the book. but SHAME on you BeBe.

He seems arrogant and smug and as time goes by he seems to speak of Whitney Houston in a different light. He told Cissy about the book at the funeral??? Come on I dont believe that for a MINUTE. He should speak more about how good of a friend Whitney was to him. He is capitalizing on her death in a real way. CeCe was a true friend of Whitney's and has not stepped out like BeBe to have this "exhault me," session. He acts like he is such a huge star but who got him off the ground??????

Sounds like he’s trying to undermine her talent.

Yaaas Mariah my girl....

His arrogance and smug attitude.

Cocky, comparative, he is smug.

bebe nor CeCe or they hold family cant sing better than Whitney so stop it bebe

was his struggle about being Christian and gay? God loves gay people too! Come out the closet BeBe!

And this interview is most definitely "A Treasure piece." 🧩