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Brown was born on March 4, 1993, at Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, New Jersey, to singers Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown. [1] Through her mother, Brown was related to many singers and entertainers: her maternal grandmother was singer Cissy Houston of The Drinkard Singers; [2] her mother's cousins were singers Dee Dee Warwick, [2] Dionne Warwick, [2] and Leontyne Price.
Davis was made aware of Cissy Houston's daughter Whitney Houston after he saw the Houstons perform at a New York City nightclub. Impressed with what he heard, Davis signed her to Arista. Houston became one of the biggest selling artists in music history under the guidance of Davis at Arista. [27]
Related: Cissy Houston, Mother of Whitney Houston and Grammy-Winning Singer, Dies at 91. Cissy concluded, "Who knows what the course deals, where you are going in life. Life is really crazy and funny.
Cissy Houston has followed her legendary daughter, Whitney Houston, in death.. The 91-year-old died on Monday, Oct. 7, at her New Jersey home, her daughter-in-law Pat Houston, announced via The ...
New Hope Baptist Church, where Houston sang in the choir as a child. Whitney Elizabeth Houston was born on August 9, 1963, at Presbyterian Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, to Emily "Cissy" (née Drinkard) and John Russell Houston Jr. [11] Cissy was a Grammy-winning gospel and soul singer who was a member of The Drinkard Singers and the founder of The Sweet Inspirations before becoming a solo ...
Cissy's only daughter, Whitney Houston, was born on Aug. 9, 1963. Whitney inherited her mother's passion and talent for music, going on to become one of the bestselling artists of all-time.
Cissy Houston died Monday morning in her New Jersey home while under hospice care for Alzheimer's disease, her daughter-in-law Pat Houston told The Associated Press. The acclaimed gospel singer was surrounded by her family. “Our hearts are filled with pain and sadness. We loss the matriarch of our family,” Pat Houston said in a statement.
In 1991, Brown proposed to Houston and the couple married at Houston's estate on July 18, 1992. Their daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown was born in 1993. [ 43 ] Houston and Brown later collaborated on the hit single " Something in Common ", which included their daughter at the end of the music video.