It's a Sweep! CeCe Winans wins every category she's nominated in, takes home 3 Grammys
By Rebecca Johnson // Gospel News // EEW Magazine Online
Somebody, grab a broom. The best-selling and most decorated female gospel recording artist of all time just swept the 2022 Grammy Awards, winning every category she was nominated in.
Priscilla Marie Winans Love, best known by her professional name, CeCe Winans, is EEW Magazine Online’s top gospel story from the 64th annual ceremony Sunday, where she was blessed with three gold statues for her well-deserving 2021 Billboard chart-topping album, Believe for It, including Best Gospel Album.
CeCe Winans at the Grammy Nominee Celebration on Thursday, March 10, 2022, in Nashville, Tenn. The Recording Academy hosted a red carpet event at the Hutton Hotel. (Credit: File Photo)
“Never Lost” earned Best Gospel Performance/Song and “Believe for It” won Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song.
The celebrated musical offering from the 57-year-old gospel veteran marked her first ever live album. It was released in March 2021 through a partnership with Winans’ own independent label, Puresprings Gospel, and Fair Trade Services.
In an interview sharing her hopes for the album, Winans told American Songwriter, “I am hoping and praying and believing for it to be one of my best-selling as well as best received records by far.”
Those hopes were realized.
Winans, who already has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and 17 million record sales certified by RIAA—and over 19 million estimated in total sales as a solo artist—now brings her Grammy total to a whopping 15.
CeCe Winans tributes the late Aretha Franklin at the 2018 American Music Awards (Courtesy of CeCe Winans/Instagram)
Believe for It features original songs by Winans and live versions of prominent worship songs, including “King Of Glory,” by Todd Dulaney, “Worthy of It All,” by Ryan Hall and David Brymer.
“I picked songs that were popular, that people have sung in the past but also current songs that are being sung in worship times all around this nation, probably around the world,” she said.
The awards show finally took place Sunday night after being delayed by the Omicron variant. The ceremony was held in Las Vegas for the first time at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, and Trevor Noah returned as the host. Most of the awards were presented at the premiere ceremony that was held before the telecast.
Among other notable winners in the faith-based genres are Elevation Worship and Maverick City Music that won Best Contemporary Christian Music Album for “Old Church Basement,” and country singer, Carrie Underwood, who earned Best Roots Gospel Album for “My Savior.”
