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Bobby Brown, Whitney Houston and Cissy Houston in New Jersey in June 1997 Related: Cissy Houston, Mother of Whitney Houston and Grammy-Winning Singer, Dies at 91
Cissy King is an American-born singer and dancer best known as a featured performer on The Lawrence Welk Show television program. King was born in Trinidad, Colorado . Her father was a geologist employed by an oil company.
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.
Music stars Brown and Whitney Houston were married from 1992 to 2007.
Related: Cissy Houston, Mother of Whitney Houston and Grammy-Winning Singer, Dies at 91 On Monday, Oct. 7, Cissy's daughter-in-law Pat Houston confirmed the news of her death in a statement ...
Growing up in Southern California, Burgess started performing at age five, which included dancing, singing and playing the accordion.At the age of 13, in 1955, he was selected as one of the original Mouseketeers by Walt Disney to appear on his new ABC television series, The Mickey Mouse Club, giving young Burgess his first taste of celebrity. [4]
Cissy Houston was born as Emily Drinkard in Newark, New Jersey, on Sept. 30, 1933, to Nitcholas "Nitch" and Celia Mae Drinkard. She was the youngest of eight children and grew up under the African ...
Gary, Michael, and Whitney are the children of singer Cissy Houston. Gary is the cousin of singers Dionne Warwick and Dee Dee Warwick and the uncle of Bobbi Kristina Brown, Whitney's daughter with singer Bobby Brown. Garland has toured several times as a background singer and an occasional duet partner with Whitney Houston. [2] [failed ...