Get ready for CeCe Winans

Apr 27, 2006

Six-time American Grammy winner CeCe Winans will perform in Uganda come August.

By Sebidde Kiryowa
Six-time American Grammy winner CeCe Winans will perform in Uganda come August. Winans, also the recipient of Gospel Music Association and Stellar Awards, is confirmed for two shows — a general show at Namboole Stadium and a VIP concert at Serena Hotel on August 27 and 28 respectively. CeCe Winans will visit Uganda enroute from South Africa.

The show will be organised by US-based FishneXt Production in conjunction with Power FM, a Kampala-based radio station.

Isaac Ruccibigango, a former member of the Limit X, a defunct US-based Gospel music trio, and president of FishneXt says, “We will make this a memorable event for all, including CeCe and her team.”

Winans is best known to the secular world for her collaboration with Whitney Houston on the 1996 Grammy-winning Count on Me, the soundtrack of hit movie Waiting To Exhale.

The eighth of 10 siblings in a musical family, CeCe Winans (born Priscilla) performed most often with her brother, BeBe, in a duo which recorded gospel material with R&B settings and proved to be the most commercially successful of the Winans groupings.

Born in Detroit, CeCe worked with Bebe in a duo called the PTL Singers until 1987, when they released their self-titled debut album (with vocal contributions from members of their family).
Four albums followed during the next seven years (two of which sold over 500,000 copies) plus 1991’s multi- platinum (sold several million copies) Different Lifestyles.

The duo’s success increased as they added more contemporary forms of production — their two number one R&B singles, Addictive Love and I’ll Take You There, both treated spiritual love in fuzzy terms.

After 1994’s Relationships, CeCe began recording her first solo album. Released in 1995, Alone in His Presence found her working her way back to traditional gospel, singing standards. His Gift followed in 1998, and a year later Winans returned with Alabaster Box. In 2003, she released a self-titled album Cece Winans. Throne Room followed in 2004 and her latest, 2005’s Purified.

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