Twelve years after the loss of life of her well-known daughter, Cissy Houston has handed on.
The mom of the late Whitney Houston and an completed singer herself, Cissy Houston handed away on Monday, Oct. 7 at her residence in New Jersey.
She was 91.
Cissy Houston and daughter singer Whitney Houston attend the 2010 Maintain A Little one Alive’s Black Ball on the Hammerstein Ballroom on September 30, 2010 in New York Metropolis. (Photograph by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Photos)
Whitney Houston’s Mom Remembered
“Our hearts are filled with pain and sadness. We lost the matriarch of our family,” shared daughter-in-law Pat Houston in an announcement from the household.
Cissy died whereas below hospice care of Alzheimer’s illness, which she had been battling for plenty of years.
“Mother Cissy has been a strong and towering figure in our lives. A woman of deep faith and conviction, who cared greatly about family, ministry, and community. Her more than seven-decade career in music and entertainment will remain at the forefront of our hearts.”
Pat continued, “Her contributions to popular music and culture are unparalleled . We are blessed and grateful that God allowed her to spend so many years with us and we are thankful for all the many valuable life lessons that she taught us.”
After which, Pat stated what we have been all considering:
“May she rest in peace, alongside her daughter, Whitney and granddaughter Bobbi Kristina and other cherished family members.”
Cissy Houston (L) and niece Dionne Warwick attend the Grammy Museum Expertise Prudential Middle Ribbon-Slicing Ceremony at Prudential Middle on October 19, 2017 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photograph by Michael Loccisano/Getty Photos)
A Legend In Her Personal Proper
Although she gave beginning to one of the crucial iconic famous person performers of all-time, Cissy was additionally an completed performer herself.
An aunt of singers Dionne Warwick and Dee Dee Warwick, Cissy started her singing profession in 1938 when she joined her sister Anne, and two brothers Larry and Nicky in a gaggle known as the Drinkard 4.
From there, she fashioned a gaggle known as the Candy Inspirations with Dee Dee Warwick and the group sang backup for everybody from Otis Redding to Elvis.
Within the 60’s, she broke out on her personal and by 1970, she launched her her solo debut LP Presenting Cissy Houston. She went on to win two Grammy awards: one in 1996 for finest conventional soul gospel album for Face to Face and in 1998 for album He Leadeth Me.
Cissy Houston attends the 2012 BET Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on July 1, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. (Photograph by Jason Merritt/Getty Photos For BET)
The Newest Household Tragedy
Fortunately, it seems like Cissy went peacefully and surrounded by household.
The identical couldn’t be stated of her daughter, Whitney, who famously was discovered lifeless in a tub on the Beverly Hills resort the night time earlier than the Grammys.
That was on February 11, 2012.
Three years later, Bobbi Kristina, Whitney’s solely daughter and Cissy’s granddaughter, was discovered face down within the bathtub of her residence in Atlanta. She spent 6 months in a medically induced coma, as medical doctors scrambled to revive her. Sadly, at simply the age of twenty-two, she died in hospice care, having by no means recovered.
