Along with her solo career, Houston recorded an album as a member of the Drinkard Singers and did four albums with the Sweet Inspirations. Among the Sweet Inspirations' higher-profile gigs was ...
Her more than seven-decade career in music and entertainment will remain at the forefront of our hearts.” Houston, born Emily Drinkard, was raised in a Newark family of singers. Her father ...
Later renamed the Drinkard Singers, they released an album on RCA in 1958, making them one of the first gospel acts to have a ...
In addition to her path-breaking daughter Whitney, Cissy was also an aunt to singers Dee Dee and Dionne Warwick, and cousin ...