Cissy Houston, the two-time Grammy Award-winning gospel singer and church choir director mother of the late iconic pop singer ...

In addition to Whitney, the Houstons also had a son, Michael. Cissy Houston was born Emily Drinkard in Newark, the youngest of eight children of a factory worker and a housewife. She was just 5 ...

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 ...