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Cissy Houston Dies: Legendary Gospel Singer, Backup For Elvis, Aretha, Bette & Jimi, Mother Of Whitney Was 91
Cissy Houston, the two-time Grammy-wining gospel singer and mother of the late Whitney Houston, died today while under hospice care. She was 91.
More famously, Houston was a member of The Sweet Inspirations, an R&B group that throughout the 1960s provided back-up vocals for some of the most popular and celebrated musicians of the day, including Presley, Solomon Burke, Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett and, in 1967, for Van Morrison: The Sweet Inspirations can be heard singing behind Morrison on his classic “Brown Eyed Girl.” Houston also frequently collaborated with her equally celebrated family members, including niece Dionne Warwick and, of course, daughter Whitney. In 2012, Houston performed Paul Simon’s Bridge Over Troubled Water as a tribute to her late daughter Whitney at the BET Music Awards.
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