Cissy Houston

Person · Open Library

Works

6

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Film & TV

Acting · Newark, New Jersey, USA

Cissy Houston was a Grammy winning soul and gospel singer. She was also the mother of Whitney Houston.

Known for

• EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert — Self (archive footage)2026
• Whitney Houston & Bobbi Kristina: Didn't We Almost Have It All — Self (archive footage)2021
• Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over — Self2021
• God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness — Lead Choir Vocalist2018
• Whitney — Self - Mother2018
• Elvis Presley: The Searcher — Self2018
• Whitney: Can I Be Me — Self - Whitney's Mother2017
• Bang! The Bert Berns Story — Self2016
• Killing Me Softly: The Roberta Flack Story — Self2014
• The Houstons Remember Whitney — Self2012

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Origin

United States

Active from

1933

Active to

2024

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

41,260

Total plays

221,176

Emily "Cissy" Houston (née Drinkard; September 30, 1933 - October 7, 2024) was a Grammy Award–winning American soul and gospel singer. She led a successful career as a backup singer for such artists as Elvis Presley and Aretha Franklin, and was primarily a solo artist in later years. She was the mother to the late singer and actress Whitney Houston, aunt of Dionne Warwick and Dee Dee Warwick and a cousin of Leontyne Price. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Cissy+Houston">Read more on Last.fm</a

via Last.fm · Cissy Houston

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,794x

2. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

   · 2016 · cited 11,704x

3. GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral

   · 2017 · cited 8,263x

4. The Genome Sequence of <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i>

   · 2000 · cited 4,818x

5. The Immune Landscape of Cancer

   · 2018 · cited 4,777x

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