Begin typing your search term above and press enter to search. Press ESC to cancel. Ben Davis August 13, Are BeBe and CeCe siblings? Who is CeCe Winans husband? Why did BeBe split CeCe? What are BeBe and CeCe real names? Who is CeCe Winans mother? Is CeCe Winan married? Is CeCe Winans an alto? Where is CeCe Winans now? How old is CeCe Williams? How old is Deborah Joy Winans? BeBe and CeCe gave their two youngest sisters, Angie and Debbie, their start singing back-up, and the two girls went on to form a duo of their own called Sisters.
BeBe and CeCe Winans' parents met in a church choir, the Lemon Gospel Chorus, in and formed their own choir after their marriage in To keep their kids off the streets of Detroit, the Winans made it a point to take them to their Pentecostal church regularly. As in many churches, singing together was a large part of the worship experience, and like so many other singers, BeBe and CeCe Winans got their start in their local church choir.
All ten of the Winans brothers and sisters were good singers and their impact on the church choir, according to BeBe, was great. We were the strong tenors, the strong altos, the strong sopranos. He knew discipline was important if one wanted to succeed as a singer.
They later changed their name to The Winans, went off to California to record their first album in and subsequently won multiple Grammy Awards. Even as teenagers, the only music BeBe and CeCe were allowed to listen to at home was gospel music. However, growing up in Detroit in the late s, it was nearly impossible for them not to be influenced by musicians from outside the gospel realm like the Temptations, the Supremes, Aretha Franklin, and Stevie Wonder.
In the late s, BeBe and CeCe, together with their older brothers Michael and Daniel, formed their own group, the Winans, Part 2 and started performing at church and family events.
While BeBe was sure that he wanted to sing for a living, CeCe didn't go for a career as a singer at first, opting instead to study cosmetology. Together with six other singers, they became the PTL Singers in and performed to a mainly white audience for the first time. PTL also became their first record label. The duo's cover version of "Up Where We Belong" became a hit on mainstream radio and the duo caught the attention of several record labels.
Thanks to BeBe's big, deep voice that managed to be tender and powerful at the same time and CeCe's rich alto, they were in demand from a variety of churches. Chris Willman of the Los Angeles Times described the duo's singing style as belonging to the "Megalo-Melismatic school She got married in June to Alvin Love, a sales account executive, and opened her own beauty salon.
BeBe ventured into commercial jingles. They were the first black artists on Sparrow's roster and produced a single of BeBe's song "I. They were, and the gospel duo signed a second contract with the major label. Producer Keith Thomas collaborated with the duo on the full vocal arrangements which were then sung by other Winans family members, including brother Marvin.
Besides winning a Grammy, the album made it into Billboard 's top ten spiritual albums--the category where black gospel artists are listed--and the magazine's top 20 inspirational albums--which usually represent white gospel. BeBe Winans, who co-wrote most of the catchy melodies, explained to Washington Post writer Richard Harrington that it has become their mission to demolish these divisions, because he couldn't "see the color of music.
The songs "I. Not only were BeBe and CeCe popular among gospel fans--they were also popular in the so-called secular market. The crowd would love it, but when I'd come backstage, I had driven the producers crazy!
The tour for their first album included mainly neutral concert halls--rather than traditional gospel venues--where BeBe and CeCe could freely perform their music.
Their lyrics were often ambiguous and lacked the strong Christian messages that most pastors required for their churches. The duo also toured with Sandi Patti and with The Winans. On a trip to Poland and Russia, their religious music even received a positive review in a communist newspaper.
The duo's second album Heaven was released in Peter B. King wrote in the Seattle Times that its sound was "best described as synth-funk gospel," dominated by "synthesizers, sequencers and drum machines. Another song on the album, "You," was co-written by three members of the jazz gospel quartet Take 6 who also sang backup vocals.
BeBe and CeCe's next album, Different Lifestyles, was another ambitious project that saw them pushing into other genres, characterized by the New York Times' Michael Eric Dyson as "a curriculum of musical diversity--from rap and uptempo rhythm-and-blues to a sample of a gospel shout. Classement Celebrity. Contenus de la page. Les plus populaires. Look de stars. Must Read. Latest Shoots. Photographe: Quintin et Ron. Stylisme de mode: Steven Lassalle.
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