and reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100, #4 on the Adult Contemporary chart and #8 on the Billboard R&B Singles charts. The single was certified Gold in the U.S. Winans’ son Alvin III also co-writes several songs on the album and younger sisters Angie and Debbie Winans make an appearance as well.ĬeCe’s collection of Top Ten R&B radio hits include “Count on Me”, her duet with Whitney Houston, from the Waiting to Exhale soundtrack. Producers on board for the project were longtime BeBe & CeCe collaborator Keith Thomas, and CeCe’s nephew Mario Winans. Winans’ 7th album Purified was released in 2005. Due to the extended recovery time, the second half of the Throne Room Tour was postponed to early 2005. Around September 2004, Winans experienced what she thought was a flu but turned out to be a serious stomach infection and was hospitalized immediately for surgery. Live In the Throne Room contained tracks from all of Winans’ albums.
In 2004, the 25 city tour Throne Room featured free admission and was followed with a DVD release of the concert recorded in Tennessee near CeCe’s place of residence. The first 1,000 copies were issued with a bonus CD that contained exclusive interviews with the artist, the making of the CD, some touring footage, and the music video “More Than What I Wanted” (which came from the 2001 release). Winans took a two year break from releasing albums and returned in 2003 with Throne Room. The second single, “Say A Prayer” crossed over into the CCM market. The single “Anybody Wanna Pray” included a guest appearance by GRITS. Winans released her next album, the self titled CeCe Winans, in 2001. The concert contained songs from her previous albums. In 2000 Cece released a concert VHS titled Live At The Lambs Theater in New York. It included a guest appearance by Take 6. Some production of the disc was done by Gospel singer and musician, Fred Hammond. Her first album on the label was Alabaster Box in 1999. In 1999, Winans started her own recording company, “ PureSprings Gospel“. Later that year, Winans released His Gift a holiday album. The song “On That Day” from the album was written and produced by R&B singer Lauryn Hill. Winans’ next release, Everlasting Love was released in 1998. It was released in 1995 and earned her a Grammy Award and 2 Dove Awards including the Female Vocalist of the Year, an award she earned again in 1997. BeBe & CeCe performed their classic song “Hold Up The Light” with one of CeCe’s former background vocalists, Melinda Doolittle, on the 2007 American Idol finale.ĬeCe began her solo career with the Gold certified album Alone in His Presence. In 1995, BeBe and CeCe split up to pursue solo careers and other interests.
Eventually the success warranted another effort: a full length album.īeBe and CeCe left PTL to pursue their singing career and recorded four more albums including Heaven, Different Lifestyles, First Christmas, and Relationships. The success yielded another effort, “Feels Like Heaven (With You)”. During their time on The PTL Club, BeBe & CeCe recorded Lord Lift Us Up on PTL’s label following popular demand on the show. It was during this time that CeCe met her husband, Alvin Love, Jr. BeBe and CeCe moved to the PTL campus in North Carolina, and were on the show for about five years. They were accepted after going to North Carolina to audition. She’s the eighth of ten children, and the oldest of three girls.Īround time that Winans had been accepted to college, the television show “The PTL Club” (now known as “Praise the Lord”) took interest in her and her brother Benjamin (BeBe) as potential background vocalists for the show. Priscilla Winans Love (born on October 8, 1964) and known professionally as CeCe Winans, is an American Gospel singer and winner of numerous Grammy Awards and Stellar Awards.ĬeCe Winans was born in Detroit, Michigan to David and Delores (“Mom” and “Pop”) Winans.