Cissy Houston, mother of legendary singer Whitney Houston and a Grammy Award-winning gospel singer herself, died at home in New Jersey on Monday, Oct. 7 while under hospice care for Alzheimer's disease. She was 91.
Daniela Avila is an editorial assistant at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2021. Her work previously appeared onRachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019, and her work has previously appeared in Entertainment Weekly and the New York Daily News.Houston died at her home in New Jersey on Monday, Oct. 7 while under hospice care for Alzheimer's disease, her daughter-in-law Pat Houston confirmed.
Houston began her singing career in 1938 when she joined her sister Anne, and two brothers Larry and Nicky in a group called the Drinkard Four.In 1963, she formed a group called the Sweet Inspirations with Dee Dee Warwick, her niece. Within a few years, the band was providing back-up vocals for artists like Otis Redding, Dusty Springfield and Wilson Pickett.
Houston was married to an NBA basketball player, Gary Garland from 1955 to 1997 and they share son Gary together. In 1958, Houston met John Russell Houston, father of Michael and Whitney. The couple legally separated in 1991 and had six grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren."She started partying and she didn't really know how to stop," she wrote. "I used to wonder what she was doing at night, where she was.""Whitney hid from me," Houston said.
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