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 today surrounded by family while under hospice care for Alzheimer's disease at her home in New Jersey.

The acclaimed gospel singer sang with Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Dionne Warwick and Elvis Presley. She collaborated with her daughter Whitney, who died in 2012 aged 48.View on euronews

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, CBS News confirmed. She was 91.