Comebacks of Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston

Published December 5, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST

Tavis Smiley talks to music critic Steven Ivory about the musical comebacks of Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey,and Barry White's struggle with kidney disease

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