Cissy Houston, a two-time Grammy Award-winning singer and mother of the late Whitney Houston, recently passed away. News of her death sent shockwaves across the music and entertainment communities.

Cissy Houston, who passed away Monday, Oct. 7 at the age of 91, attained the heights of music stardom as a solo star and backup singer for Elvis Presley. But few have been so intimate with public ...

Sadly, another entertainment legend has gone on to glory. According to a family spokesperson, Dr. Emily “Cissy” Houston, the mother of Whitney Houston and two-time Grammy Award-winning singer, and ...

Cissy Houston, the acclaimed soul singer, mother of pop icon Whitney Houston and aunt of singer Dionne Warwick, has died. She was 91. Houston died Monday morning at her New Jersey home while under ...

Cissy Houston has died at the age of 91. She was a celebrated soul and gospel singer and part of an extraordinary family of musicians. Brandon Gates has our remembrance. BRANDON GATES, BYLINE: I love ...

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 ...

NEWARK, N.J. — Dionne Warwick, BeBe Winans, Darlene Love and a massive choir helped celebrate the life of gospel icon Cissy Houston during a music-filled memorial Thursday in the Duchess of Gospel’s ...

The mother of Whitney Houston, Cissy Houston, has died at 91. Cissy’s daughter-in-law, Pat Houston, told the Associated Press that the two-time Grammy winner passed away in her New Jersey home on ...

Cissy Houston, a singer whose career began in childhood and spanned generations and genres from gospel to pop, has died. As a child, Houston performed with her siblings, and she later sang backing ...

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, ...