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Drinkard Singers. Emily Drinkard, later known as Cissy Houston, was only five years old when she joined her sister, Anne, and brothers, Nicholas and Larry, in a family gospel group, the Drinkard Four. Another sister, Lee,…. Read Full Biography.
The Drinkard Singers were an American Gospel singing group, most successful in the late 1950's and important in the careers of singer's Cissy Houston, Dionne Warwick, D. D.Warwick, and Judy Clay.
The Drinkard Singers covered Sweet Hour of Prayer, Listen to the Lambs, Somebody Bigger Than You and I, Battle Hymn of the Republic and other songs. The Drinkard Singers originally did Sweet Hour of Prayer, Somebody Bigger Than You and I, Old Landmark, Blessed Be the Name of the Lord and other songs.
Recorded in Webster Hall, New York, April 9, 14, 16 and 25, 1958. Judy Guions is better known as Judy Clay; Lee Drinkard Warrick is her adoptive mother, and the biological mother of Dionne and Dee Dee Warwick; Emily Drinkard Garland (better known as Cissy Houston) and Marie Drinkard Epps are Lee Warrick's sisters, and thus the aunts of Dionne ...
Expanding with the addition of vocalists, Ann Moss and Marie Epps, the group was renamed, the Drinkard Singers. Performing regularly at the New Hope Baptist Church, in Newark, they recorded several singles for the Savoy, Chess and Verve labels and a live album, A Joyful Noise, for RCA. They became the first gospel group to sing with Mahalia ...
15 de dez. de 2016 · Singer Cissy Houston was born Emily Drinkard on September 30, 1933 in Newark, New Jersey to Delia Mae McCaskill Drinkard and Nicholas Drinkard. With her father’s encouragement, Houston formed the gospel singing group The Drinkard Four with her sister, Anne, and her brothers, Larry and Nicky.
