Cissy Houston, Whitney Houston’s mother and two-time Grammy winner, is dead. She died at the age of 91 surrounded by her family.
Cissy Houston, the two-time Grammy winner and mother of the late Whitney Houston (1963-2012), has died at the age of 91 surrounded by her family. citing a statement from her surviving daughter-in-law, Pat Houston. The statement said she succumbed to Alzheimer’s disease at her home in New Jersey on Monday morning. She had been receiving palliative treatment at home for a long time. “Our hearts are full of pain and sadness. We are losing the matriarch of our family,” Pat Houston said in her statement.
“Mother Cissy” was the strong and outshining figure in the family’s life. Houston was also a deeply religious and very convinced woman who cared deeply about family and community. Her mother-in-law made an “unparalleled contribution” to popular music and culture. Her seven-decade career in the music and entertainment industry will always remain in her hearts, continued Pat Houston.
Cissy Houston, the mother of Whitney Houston, the grandmother of Bobbi Kristina Brown (1993-2015) and the aunt of Dee Dee (1945-2008) and Dionne Warwick (83), made her breakthrough in the late 1960s with the girl group Sweet Inspirations , which toured with Elvis Presley (1935-1977), Aretha Franklin (1942-2018) and Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970). In the 1970s she embarked on a solo career and increasingly turned from soul music to the disco genre. She later devoted herself more and more to gospel music and won the Grammy for Best Traditional Gospel Album in both 1997 and 1999.
Cissy Houston survived both her daughter and her granddaughter
Cissy Houston outlived her daughter Whitney Houston by more than ten years: the world-famous singer and actress died in a hotel in Beverly Hills in 2012 at the age of 48. There she was found dead in a bathtub. The cause of death was determined to be drowning as a result of chronic cocaine abuse and heart disease. Just three years later, Cissy’s granddaughter and Whitney’s daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, was found unconscious in a bathtub. A few months later she died of complications in a hospice at the age of just 22. Like her mother Whitney, Bobbi Kristina also had massive drug problems.
Source: Stern
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