Cissy Houston

Cissy Houston (1933-2024) was a soul and gospel singer and the mother of Whitney Houston. In a long and busy recording career, she worked in other genres as a session singer. She was one of the fourteen backup vocalists on "Underground" in Labyrinth.
Houston began performing with the gospel group the Drinkard Singers, making their professional debut in the 1950s. Later founding the group The Sweet Inspirations, she backed Elvis Presley. By the 1960s, she was an active backing and session singer, including for Jimi Hendrix and her niece Dionne Warwick. Houston periodically released her own solo singles and albums as late as 1997 and frequently collaborated with daughter Whitney, but session work remained her primary career. She backed Van Morrison, Paul Simon, Luther Vandross, Burt Bacharach, Roberta Flack, Bette Midler, Aretha Franklin, Judy Collins, Beyoncé Knowles, Joe Cocker, Bob Dylan, and Linda Ronstadt.
She was heard on the Marlo Thomas album Free to Be... A Family and the film soundtrack of The Wiz.
==External links==
*Discogs.com listing
 
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