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Emily " Cissy " Houston ( née Drinkard; born September 30, 1933) [3] is an American soul and gospel singer. After a successful career singing backup for such artists as Roy Hamilton, Dionne Warwick, Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin, and Chaka Khan, Houston embarked on a solo career, winning two Grammy Awards for her work.
Mar 22, 2024 · Whitney Houston did sing backup for Chaka Khan before finding her own fame, but this was on the 1980 album Naughty, not I’m Every Woman. “I had been working with Cissy [Houston] for quite a while as a background singer and one day we were in the studio, and she said, ‘You know, I have a daughter who can sing,’” Chaka Khan said in 2021.
- Jeanette Leech
Whitney Houston recorded the song in 1992, taking it to #4 in the US and introducing the song to a new audience. Houston pays tribute by yelling "Chaka" a few times near the end. Whitney's mother, Cissy Houston, sang backing vocals on Chaka Khan's original version.
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Aug 9, 2021 · Houston was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1963 to ex-Army serviceman John Russell Houston Jr. and gospel singer Emily “Cissy” Houston, who was a member of the group “The Sweet Inspirations ...
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- Haley Yamada
The video also features cameo appearances by Houston's mother Cissy Houston as well as by Chaka Khan, Valerie Simpson, Martha Wash and labelmate TLC. The song won Houston a NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Music Video, and received a Grammy Award nomination in 1994 for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance.
- "A Woman in a Man's World"
- September 26, 1978
- 1978
- Disco
