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Feb 7, 2021 · Whitney Houston's Mom Once Disapproved of Her Sexuality — It's Different Now. The legacy of Whitney Houston is a complicated one. The late singer won six Grammys, 22 American Music Awards, an Emmy, and in 2020, she was finally inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. But leading up to her accidental drowning, Whitney had battled addiction ...
May 18, 2018 · Cissy Houston started singing at the age of five with the family gospel group, the Drinkard Singers, in Newark, New Jersey. After years of singing gospel, she crossed over into the pop world and formed the group Sweet Inspirations with Sylvia Sherwell, Myrna Smith, and Estelle Brown.
The Sweet Inspirations was founded by former members of The Drinkard Singers, a long-running Gospel singing group whose membership included Cissy Houston (née Drinkard), mother of Whitney Houston, and Lee Warwick, who was Cissy's sister and the mother of Sweet Inspirations members Dee Dee and Dionne Warwick.
Gospel/soul singer Cissy Houston recorded the song as "Midnite Train to Georgia" (spelled "Midnight ..." on the UK single) released in 1973. Her version can also be found on her albums Midnight Train to Georgia: The Janus Years (1995), and the reissue of her 1970 debut album, Presenting Cissy Houston originally released on Janus Records. [5]
Dec 15, 2016 · Biography. Singer Cissy Houston was born Emily Drinkard on September 30, 1933 in Newark, New Jersey to Delia Mae McCaskill Drinkard and Nicholas Drinkard. With her father’s encouragement, Houston formed the gospel singing group The Drinkard Four with her sister, Anne, and her brothers, Larry and Nicky. The group performed regularly at New ...
Think It Over. (album) Think It Over is the third studio album by American gospel/soul singer Cissy Houston, released in 1978 on Private Stock Records. [1] The album was produced by Michael Zager and features Houston's R&B hit "Think It Over", which peaked at #5 on the Billboard s Dance chart and #32 on Billboard s Hot Soul chart. [2]
Emily "Cissy" Drinkard Houston (født 30. september 1933 i Newark i New Jersey) er en amerikansk Grammy Award-belønnet soul- og gospelsanger. Eksterne henvisninger [ redigér | rediger kildetekst ] Wikimedia Commons har flere filer relateret til Cissy Houston
