The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Cissy Houston

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Cissy Houston

12/15/2016

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2016.123

Singer Cissy Houston (1933 – ), mother of singer Whitney Houston, released the first gospel album on a major label, A Joyful Noise (1959), as a member of The Drinkard Singers along with her siblings. Houston won Grammy Awards for Face to Face (1996) and He Leadeth Me (1997). Houston was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 12/15/2016, in New York, New York. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 4; Total Run Time: 02h 10m 25s

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Houston, Cissy

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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 Hope Baptist Church in Newark. When Marie Epps, Ann Moss, and Houston's sister, Lee Drinkard, joined them, the group was renamed The Drinkard Singers.In 1957, Houston per...