Connect with us

Hi, what are you looking for?

Sqoop - Get Uganda entertainment news, celebrity gossip, videos and photos
Sqoop – Get Uganda entertainment news, celebrity gossip, videos and photosSqoop – Get Uganda entertainment news, celebrity gossip, videos and photos

News

Whitney Houston’s mother, Cissy Houston dies at age 91

 

Dated September 30, 2010 filed photo shows US singer Cissy Houston and daughter singer Whitney Houston attending the 2010 Keep A Child Alive’s Black Ball at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City. Stephen Lovekin / Getty Images / AFP / FILES

Grammy award winning singer and the mother of Whitney Houston, Cissy Houston has died at the age of 91.

A family spokesperson said Houston was surrounded by family as she passed away at her Newark, New Jersey home on Monday (October 7) while under hospice care for Alzheimer’s disease.

Pat Houston, Cissy’s daughter-in-law, expressed the family’s grief in a heartfelt statement. “Our hearts are filled with pain and sadness. We have lost the matriarch of our family,” she said. “Mother Cissy has been a strong and towering figure in our lives. Her contributions to popular music and culture are unparalleled.”

Cissy Houston’s career spanned more than seven decades and is filled with numerous accolades including two Grammy awards.

The family statement ends, “May she rest in peace, alongside her daughter, Whitney and granddaughter Bobbi Kristina and other cherished family members.”

Whitney Houston won six of her own Grammys during her 25-year career and died in 2012 aged 48, after drowning in a hotel bathtub.

In 2015 Bobbi Kristina Brown, the only child of Houston and R&B singer Bobby Brown, died at an Atlanta-area hospice after an unexplained incident that left her unresponsive in a bathtub in her suburban Atlanta home.

You May Also Like

Four One One

On a typical Friday evening, Crysto Panda and Bruno K, the dynamic duo behind the TikTok live show Champanya, were gearing up for another...

Four One One

Ugandan music legend Jose Chameleone is set to return home this week after spending more than four months in the United States for specialized...

News

Nation Media Group Uganda has appointed renowned media personality Flavia Tumusiime as the new Head of Broadcasting. With over 22 years of experience across...

News

Local artiste Shafiq Jjingo, alias Fik Gaza, who was arrested last Thursday along with three other aides is expected to appear in court today....

Advertisement