Cissy Houston taught her daughter how to sing and Whitney Houston began to perform in their church gospel choir. “My mother and father raised us with the fear of God, but I loved church. It was ...

Whitney Houston's former bodyguard David Roberts claimed in his memoir "Protecting Whitney" that Robert De Niro was smitten the singer. However, Houston's mother, Cissy Houston, quickly intervened.

Whitney's mother, Cissy Houston, was a gospel and blues great who not only had daughter Whitney singing solos in church, but also on her breakthrough appearance on the Merv Griffin Show.

Cissy Houston, the acclaimed soul singer, mother of pop icon Whitney Houston and aunt of singer Dionne Warwick, has died.She was 91. Houston died Monday morning at her New Jersey home while under ...

Cissy Houston, Whitney Houston's mother, dies at age 91 00:33. Cissy Houston, the mother of the late Whitney Houston and a two-time Grammy winner who performed alongside superstar musicians like ...

Somehow lost in the nonstop Whitney Houston coverage since her demise is the fact that bin Laden was a rabid follower of the "I Will Always Love You" songbird -- at least according to poet and ...

Cissy Houston, the mother of the late Whitney Houston and a two-time Grammy winner who performed alongside superstar musicians like Elvis Presley, and Aretha Franklin, has died. She was 91.

Cissy Houston was briefly married to Freddie Garland in the 1950s; their son, Gary Garland, was a guard for the Denver Nuggets and later sang on many of Whitney Houston’s tours.