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Cissy Houston, mother of the late Whitney Houston and an iconic gospel singer herself, has died. She was 91. Houston died at her home in New Jersey on Monday, Oct. 7 while under hospice care for ...
Emily Drinkard was born on September 30, 1933 in Newark, New Jersey to Delia Mae "Dee Dee" (née McCaskill) and Nicholas "Nitch" Drinkard, the youngest of eight children. [1] [2] [3] Houston was the granddaughter of a black landowner in Blakely, Georgia, who later shared the land he owned with Houston's father Nitch during a time when it was unusual for black people to have large landholdings.
Cissy Houston, renowned soul and gospel singer and mother to Whitney Houston, died at the age of 91. Houston, a two-time Grammy winner who sang backup for Aretha Franklin and Elvis Presley, passed ...
Whitney Houston’s mother, gospel singer Cissy Houston, has died at age 91. Cissy's daughter-in-law Pat Houston told The Associated Press that the two-time Grammy winner died on Monday, October 7 ...
Cissy Houston, Grammy-winning singer and mother of Whitney Houston, has died, according to Gwendolyn Quinn, a representative for The Estate of Whitney E. Houston. She was 91.
The church also held daughter Whitney Houston's funeral more than a decade ago. “She gave so much. She gave me the right to be me,” said Warwick, 83, the 91-year-old Houston’s niece, who often backed up Warwick. “Cissy, I’m going to miss you,” she added, asking her aunt to greet her passed relatives. “They're all waiting for you.
Cissy Houston, the mother of the late Whitney Houston and a two-time Grammy winner who performed alongside superstar musicians like Elvis Presley, and Aretha Franklin, has died. She was 91.
Houston authored three books: “He Leadeth Me,” “How Sweet The Sound: My Life with God and Gospel" and "Remembering Whitney: A Mother’s Story of Life, Loss and The Night The Music Stopped.” In 1938, Cissy Houston started her career when she joined her sister Anne and brothers Larry and Nicky to form the gospel group, The Drinkard Four ...