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Cissy Houston Dies: Legendary Gospel Singer, Back-Up For Elvis, Aretha, Bette & Jimi, Mother Of Whitney Was 91

Cissy Houston, the two-time Grammy-wining gospel singer, mother of the late Whitney Houston, back-up singer for everyone from Elvis Presley and Luther Vandross to Paul Simon and Jimi Hendrix, died ...
The New York Times

Luther Vandross and the Sound That Could Fill Hearts, or Break Them

He was hounded by a fat-phobic press, but as Dawn Porter’s new documentary shows, he was a transformational presence from the start. By J Wortham Beginning in the late 1970s, while making the ...