Cissy Houston Houston, her daughter and backup singer, increasingly sang solos with Cissy's band, including the Barbra Streisand hit "Evergreen". They would collaborate on "Ain't No Way" (originally a Cissy Houston and Aretha Franklin vehicle), on which Cissy sang "Cissy" and Whitney "Aretha". In 1996, Houston received the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album for "Face to Face", an album that contained a Gospel version of "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)". The same year, she contributed one song to the gospel soundtrack album for the film "The Preacher's Wife", which starred her daughter Whitney Houston. In
Whitney Houston (album) [...] was a fresh serving of precocious talent compared to 1985's mildly flavored R&B buffet." Allison Stewart from "The Washington Post" stated that the album "provided a blueprint for the pop/dance/R&B-melding careers of Mariah Carey and others, and introduced the world to "The Voice", an octave-spanning, gravity-defying melismatic marvel." In "The New Rolling Stone Album Guide" (2004), music journalist J. D. Considine gave the album three out of five stars and stated, "Although utterly calculating, "Whitney Houston" does have its moments, particularly when Houston leans toward R&B, as on 'You Give Good Love.'" The album received good response from major