Whitney Houston's mother Cissy is writing a book to reveal her daughter's "unabridged and unbelievable story" to the world. Cissy Houston has signed with HarperCollins to write the memoir detailing ...

Pat Houston, the singer's daughter-in-law, called Cissy a "towering figure" whose "contributions to popular music and culture are unparalleled." Ryan Coleman is a news writer for Entertainment Weekly ...

Dionne Warwick is speaking out after the death of her aunt, Cissy Houston. Warwick, 83, shared a statement to X on Tuesday, Oct. 8, one day after Cissy died at her home in Newark, N.J. while under ...

Cissy Houston, a singer whose career began in childhood and spanned generations and genres from gospel to pop, has died. As a child, Houston performed with her siblings, and she later sang backing ...

In a New York Times obituary, Robert Darden, who wrote several books on gospel music, said of Houston, she was a significant figure not because she sold a lot of records but because of the people she ...

Cissy Houston, a two-time Grammy-winning gospel singer who was the mother of late pop titan Whitney Houston, died Monday. She was 91. In a statement to The Times, the estate of Whitney Houston said ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cissy Houston, a two-time Grammy Award winner who sang with Elvis Presley and Aretha Franklin, died Monday. (Charles Sykes / ...