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 ...

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 ...

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

Cissy Houston, the Grammy award-winning singer who is also the mother of the late Whitney Houston, has died. She was 91.

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