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☆ Cissy Houston Dies at 91; Gospel Star Guided Daughter Whitney’s Rise
  + stars: | 2024-10-07 | by ( Glenn Rifkin | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
Cissy Houston, a Grammy Award-winning soul and gospel star who helped shepherd her daughter Whitney Houston to superstardom, died on Monday at her home in Newark. Her family announced her death in a statement, which said she had been in hospice care for Alzheimer’s disease. Ms. Houston was a gifted stylist whose powerful voice and deep faith made her an influential figure in gospel circles for decades. She won Grammy Awards in the traditional soul gospel category for the albums “Face to Face” in 1997 and “He Leadeth Me” in 1999. Before then, she had been among the busiest backup singers in the record business, providing vocal support for Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley and many others.
Persons: Cissy, Whitney Houston, Houston, Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley Organizations: New Hope Baptist Church Locations: Cissy Houston, superstardom, Newark
☆ Cissy Houston, Grammy-winning singer and mother of Whitney Houston, dead at 91
  + stars: | 2024-10-07 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
CNN —Cissy Houston, Grammy-winning singer and mother of Whitney Houston, has died, according to Gwendolyn Quinn, a representative for The Estate of Whitney E. Houston. “Mother Cissy has been a strong and towering figure in our lives. Whitney Houston died in 2012 at the age of 48. Cissy Houston was also the mother of sons Gary and Michael and the grandmother of her several grandchildren, according to her biography. Her granddaughter Bobbie Kristina Brown, died three years after her mother Whitney at the age of 22.
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