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Vinony files it under 1933 births, 2024 deaths and 20th-century African-American women singers.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Remembering Whitney
- Unti Cissy Houston Memoir
- Cissy Houston - He Leadeth Me and Face to Face
- He Leadeth Me, Face to Face
- How sweet the sound
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Film & TV
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
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1933
- Active to
- 2024
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 41,260
- Total plays
- 221,176
Tags
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
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Emily
- Family name
- Garland
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Newark
- Place of death
- Newark
- Occupation
- singer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- pop music
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Columbia Records
- Image
- Cissy Huston.jpg
- Voice type
- mezzo-soprano
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- Commons category
- Cissy Houston
- date of birth
- 1933-09-30
- start of work period
- 1938-00-00
- relative
- Dee Dee Warwick
- ethnic group
- African Americans
- member of
- Sweet Inspirations
- date of death
- 2024-10-07
- end of work period
- 2018-00-00
- cause of death
- Alzheimer's disease
- name in native language
- Cissy Houston
- birth name
- Emily Drinkard
- pseudonym
- Cissy Houston
- manner of death
- natural causes
Sources (7)
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