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8 on Billboard's Christian Adult Contemporary chart.Ī holiday release titled First Christmas followed in 1993.

Rapper MC Hammer was featured on the single "The Blood" at the height of his career. It featured the singles " Addictive Love" and a cover of The Staple Singers' " I'll Take You There" featuring Mavis Staples. The release of their 1991 album Different Lifestyles brought their biggest success to date. 95 on the Pop Charts and was certified Gold.

The album reached the R&B Top Ten, went to No. Other hits from the album included "Lost Without You" and "Celebrate New Life," one of two album tracks featuring superstar and family friend Whitney Houston. The pair became the first Gospel artists to see their album reach No. With the release of their second LP Heaven, they remained steadily popular with R&B audiences, spawning 3 R&B hit singles including two No. They were one of the first African American artists to receive significant airplay on contemporary Christian music radio stations and the second African American artists to receive the Dove Award in the Group of the Year category. CeCe also earned a Grammy for "Best Soul Gospel Performance, Female" for the song "For Always." Me", which topped R&B and inspirational charts and generated Grammy nominations, and Dove and Stellar Awards. The debut record gave them their first R&B hit, "I.O.U. It was produced by Keith Thomas, who would go on to produce Amy Grant and Vanessa L. Their mainstream debut release was the self-titled album BeBe & CeCe Winans. They were introduced by Jim Bakker, and recorded their first album Lord Lift Us Up as a duo for PTL Records.īeBe and CeCe left the PTL Singers in 1987 to pursue a musical career and that same year, Sparrow Records offered the two siblings a Gospel recording contract. Initially known as The Winans Part II, BeBe and CeCe first appeared in the public eye when they debuted in 1982 as part of the singing group The PTL Singers on the Christian television show The PTL Club. While BeBe and CeCe were in high school, four of their elder brothers formed the successful gospel group The Winans.

Together, they have received several awards, including three Grammys. BeBe and CeCe Winans are the seventh and eighth of the Winans family's ten children, most of whom have had gospel music careers. BeBe Winans (left) and CeCe Winans (right) in 1994Ĭontemporary gospel, contemporary Christian music, Contemporary R&BīeBe & CeCe Winans are an American gospel music brother and sister duo.