Cissy Houston
Sign in to saveAmerican singer (1933–2024)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1933-09-30
- Died
- 2024-10-07
- 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
via Open Library + Wikidata
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
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 41,260
- Total plays
- 221,176
Tags
soulgospelfemale vocalistsnew jerseySmooth Soul
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
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,321x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,371x
- GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
· 2017 · cited 8,035x
- The Genome Sequence of
<i>Drosophila melanogaster</i>
· 2000 · cited 4,798x
- The Immune Landscape of Cancer
· 2018 · cited 4,663x
via Crossref · CC0
Key dates
- Born
- 30 September 1933
- Died
- 7 October 2024
via Wikidata · CC0
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
Gallery (2)
Connections
Categories
1933 births2024 deaths20th-century African-American women singers20th-century American singers20th-century American women singers21st-century American singers21st-century American women singersAfrican-American ChristiansAmerican disco singersAmerican gospel singersAmerican people of Dutch descentAmerican soul singers