Her musical roots lie in her family’s 1950s gospel group the Drinkard Singers (Houston was born Emily Drinkard in 1933). They were the first gospel group to perform with Mahalia Jackson and the first ...

In 2013, Houston wrote a revealing memoir titled, “Remembering Whitney,” where she wrote candidly about Whitney’s severe drug problems that led to her death by drowning in a hotel bathtub with traces ...

The musical matriarch's death comes just 12 years after the loss of her daughter and nine years after the loss of her ...

Cissy Houston, the two-time Grammy-winning soul singer who was the mother of the late Whitney Houston and aunt of singer Dionne Warwick, has died. Houston passed away on Monday, Oct. 7 at her home in ...

Cissy is survived by her sons, Gary Garland and Michael Houston. Houston was married to Whitney and Michael’s father, John ...

Cissy revealed to talk show host Oprah Winfrey in a sit-down interview in January 2013 — nearly a year after Whitney drowned ...

Legendary Grammy winner Dionne Warwick shared a heartfelt statement following the passing of her aunt, Gospel, R&B, and Pop icon Cissy Houston, who died peacefully on October 7th, 2024, at the age of ...

Cissy Houston, renowned gospel singer and the mother of Whitney Houston, died on Monday morning at the age of 91, her family ...

As we mourn the passing of the gospel music great who gave the world Whitney Houston, we look back at her legendary life.

Cissy Houston, a two-time Grammy-winning soul and gospel artist who sang with Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley and other stars ...

Cissy Houston, the Grammy-winning gospel singer and Whitney Houston’s mother, died Monday in New Jersey. She was 91.

The year after Whitney’s death in 2012, Cissy published the book Remembering Whitney, for which Warwick wrote the foreword. “ ...