NEWARK, N.J. – Dionne Warwick, BeBe Winans, Darlene Love and a massive choir helped celebrate the life of gospel icon Cissy Houston during a music-filled memorial Thursday in the Duchess of Gospel’s ...

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Cissy Houston may have lost Whitney Houston three years ago, but in an interview with Entertainment Tonight, the matriarch of the Houston family still thinks about her daughter every day. Houston had ...

“Our hearts are filled with pain and sadness,” Houston’s daughter-in-law said in a statement issued on Oct. 7. “We loss the matriarch of our family. Mother Cissy has been a strong and towering figure ...

Houston, who died Oct. 7, started out on the gospel circuit as a child, sang backup for Aretha Franklin and later guided her daughter, Whitney, to superstardom. Originally broadcast in 1998. This is ...

After Whitney Houston's death in 2012, her mother Cissy Houston wondered if there was anything she could've done different to save her life. Speaking to PEOPLE in 2013 about her revealing memoir, ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Cissy Houston, a two-time Grammy-winning soul and gospel artist who sang with Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley and other stars and knew triumph and heartbreak as the mother of Whitney ...