CNN Profiles CeCe's Career December 1, 2008
 On November 23rd, CNN featured multi-award winning singer and entrepreneur, CeCe Winans, in their "To The Top" segment. Winans' career spans over 20 plus years in the music business, which was launched with her brother, BeBe, in the late 80's. The dynamic duo was recently featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show along with Vince Gill and Wynonna Judd performing "Right Now" (We Need One Another) which can be purchased on iTunes. The siblings team up again in 2009 for their first recording in 15 years.
Winans' recent release, Thy Kingdom Come, marks her eighth solo CD, but the gospel songbird is doing more than singing these days. She is also the founder of Always Sisters, an outreach for young girls and teens.
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CeCe & Others Join Together for Nation's Healing Song November 10, 2008
Grammy Award Winners Come Together On Healing Song for the Nation
Los Angeles -- On the heels of this year's epic general election, four of the biggest voices in country, pop, and gospel music are reaching across the aisle and coming together for an unprecedented single aimed at fostering unity across partisan, social, ethnic, and economic divides, setting a tone of harmony and togetherness for the new presidency and the country's immediate future.
GRAMMY®-winning, multi-platinum selling recording artists BeBe & CeCe Winans along with country superstars Vince Gill and Wynonna Judd came together and recorded the soaring ballad, "Right Now" (We Need One Another), an empowering song they debuted live in a special post-election episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show. "Right Now" (We Need One Another) (BeBe & CeCe Records/Zomba) is co-produced and written by BeBe Winans along with Tyler Haynes and Ross Koper, and is exclusively available on iTunes. The single will also be included in the untitled, highly anticipated album by hit-making brother-and-sister duo BeBe & CeCe which is sure to be one of the biggest releases of 2009.
"Right Now" (We Need One Another) is such a befitting song with a very timely message. "Together we will stand and divided we will fall. I am honored to be a part of delivering this message, especially during this time," says CeCe Winans.
In a climate where there has been much to say about the state of our nation as it pertains to its economy, its citizens' ability to find and keep jobs, its ability to provide affordable healthcare for all, and mounting tensions abroad, "Right Now" (We Need One Another) is a song that takes the half-full approach to the country's plight: by focusing on the common ground and shared values that make us a great nation, it promotes a vision of hope for years to come.
"I want this song to be a vehicle to bring Americans together as a whole, so that we can truly understand how much we need each other," BeBe Winans says. Keeping in line with the theme and core message throughout the song, the proceeds of the single, " Right Now" (We Need Each Other) which is only available through iTunes, will be given to charity.
With more than 5 million albums sold and several GRAMMY® Awards under their belt together and individually, BeBe & CeCe Winans are one of music's preeminent sibling duos, as well as one of the first crossover groups to taste success simultaneously in the pop, urban, and gospel arenas. Their singles "Addictive Love," "Lost Without You," "Heaven," "It's Okay," and "I'll Take You There," among others, cemented BeBe & CeCe as a multi-format force, eventually setting the stage for auspicious solo careers for both of them. Their as-yet-untitled comeback recording after more than a decade is expected in 2009.
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PureWorship Review from Christianity Today! October 28, 2008
Various Artists
CeCe Winans Presents: Pure Worship (PureSprings Gospel)
Released October 2008
By Andree Farias
Sounds like … CeCe Winans and friends having a time of worship that spans several styles, including contemporary gospel, pop, Latin, modern worship, and any combination thereof.
At a glance … At a glance: anchored in a solid gospel-pop base, Pure Worship is an extremely effective demonstration of how to do blended worship right.
When CeCe Winans isn't riding high on the charts or commanding attention via high-profile media appearances, she's a worshipper. Matter of fact, one could make the case that she left behind her platinum-selling BeBe & CeCe gig so she could do more worship music—all of her subsequent solo albums, without exception, shed light on her heart for adoration.
CeCe Winans Presents: Pure Worship is an extension of Winans' love of church music, but she's not the lead worshipper here. Instead, she called on worship leaders and music ministers from all traditions across the country to submit original songs of praise, the best of which would be compiled on a live recording hosted by the award-winning songstress.
There's no word on how the search went or how many songs Winans and her team had to whittle down, but if the set list in Pure Worship is any indication, the singer made sure that no particular style was represented more than the others. Pure Worship, at its very basic, is a joyous blended worship feast—featuring a knockout gospel-pop band and choir, integrated seamlessly from start to finish.
After a reverent choral introit, Pure Worship immediately kicks things into motion with "I Do Worship," a high-powered pop/rock anthem in the vein of Chris Tomlin's "Forever." As with that song, this call to worship gets repetitive in no time, but no one seems to care: both singers and congregation seem to be having the time of their life.
From there, Winans and friends move through a repertoire that spans Latin/gospel ("I Love You More"), soaring gospel-pop ("Unrestrained"), acoustic pop/rock ("I Am Yours"), calypso-flavored praise ("All About You"), and even one or two performance-based pieces ("A Little More," "Faithful"). Even Coldplay-styled Brit pop? Yep, it's here too in the form of "I Will."
By the time the worshippers enter the inner courts of the sanctuary with covers of tried-and-true favorites like Tomlin's "How Great Is Our God" and Michael W. Smith's "Agnus Dei," Pure Worship has asserted itself as one of the most balanced blended worship live recordings in recent memory, offering a vast array of new songs that churches of all walks can adopt into their weekly services.
Track Listing
1. Instruments of Praise
2. I Do Worship
3. I Love You More
4. Unrestrained
5. A Little More
6. I Am Yours
7. All About You
8. Faithful
9. Take My Life (Holiness)
10. I Will
11. Agnus Dei
12. How Great Is Our God/How Great Thou Art
13. Holy, Holy, Holy
14. Nobody But You
PureWorship can be purchased in stores or online in the STORE section of this website.
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