Along with her solo career, Houston recorded an album as a member of the Drinkard Singers and did four albums with the Sweet Inspirations. Among the Sweet Inspirations' higher-profile gigs was ...

She was just 5 when she and three siblings founded the Drinkard Singers, a gospel group that lasted 30 years, performing on the same bill as Mahalia Jackson among others and releasing the 1959 ...

Later renamed the Drinkard Singers, they released an album on RCA in 1958, making them one of the first gospel acts to have a ...

Her more than seven-decade career in music and entertainment will remain at the forefront of our hearts.” Houston, born Emily Drinkard, was raised in a Newark family of singers. Her father ...

Cissy Houston, Grammy-winning singer and mother of Whitney Houston, has died, according to Gwendolyn Quinn, a representative ...

In addition to her path-breaking daughter Whitney, Cissy was also an aunt to singers Dee Dee and Dionne Warwick, and cousin ...