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

Cissy Houston, a two-time Grammy-winning singer who performed alongside superstar musicians like Elvis Presley and Aretha Franklin and the mother of Whitney Houston, has died.

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,