Speaking to PEOPLE in 2013 about her revealing memoir, 'Remembering Whitney,' Cissy Houston reflected on the star's tragic death.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Cissy Houston, the mother of the late Whitney Houston and a two-time Grammy winner who performed alongside superstar musicians like Elvis Presley, and Aretha Franklin, has died. She was 91.

Cissy Houston, mother of the late singer and actor Whitney Houston, died Monday at age 91. People and TMZ confirmed her death with daughter-in-law Pat Houston. Cissy died in her New Jersey home under hospice care,