Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On October 7, 2024, Grammy Award-winning singer Cissy Houston passed away after a long battle with Alzheimer's. She is best known ...

Cissy Houston, the Grammy-winning Gospel singer and mother to Whitney Houston, has died. Her family confirmed that she died on Monday morning due to complications of Alzheimer’s disease while under ...

The world lost another powerful voice when Cissy Houston died at age 91. On Oct. 7, 2024, the Grammy-winning singer and mother of Whitney Houston died at her New Jersey home while under hospice care ...

Whitney Houston‘s mother and fellow singer, Cissy Houston (real name: Emily Drinkard), has died. She was 91. Cissy passed away under hospice care for Alzheimer’s Disease in New Jersey, her daughter-in ...

Cissy died on Oct. 7 while under hospice care for Alzheimer's disease ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty After Whitney Houston's death in 2012, her mother Cissy Houston ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies. Cissy Houston, the gospel singer and backup vocalist who guided her daughter Whitney Houston to stardom, died Monday at the age of 91. Cissy Houston began singing ...

“Our hearts are filled with pain and sadness,” Houston’s daughter-in-law said in a statement issued on Oct. 7. “We loss the matriarch of our family. Mother Cissy has been a strong and towering figure ...

The hooks, harmonies, riffs and rhythms behind most of the greatest songs in the history of pop music aren’t solely derived from the stars who perform them. They’re anchored in the soulful sounds of ...

After Whitney Houston's death in 2012, her mother Cissy Houston wondered if there was anything she could've done different to save her life. Speaking to PEOPLE in 2013 about her revealing memoir, ...

Houston, who died Oct. 7, started out on the gospel circuit as a child, sang backup for Aretha Franklin and later guided her daughter, Whitney, to superstardom. Originally broadcast in 1998. This is ...

The Grammy-winning singer and mother of Whitney Houston died on Oct. 7, 2024, at age 91 The world lost another powerful voice when Cissy Houston died at age 91. "Mother Cissy has been a strong and ...