CeCe Winans – Falling Forward

When I say you guys are amazing, this younger generation now, if they get lined up right, it’s going to be serious revival. They want the real deal; they don’t want halfway. I’m finding out that this generation wants to see a move of God. They don’t want it to be sugarcoated. It’s pretty awesome, but they have to be taught the beauty of submission.

CCM: Growing up, your music transcended cultural and racial barriers for me, and was one of my first introductions to black music. Has this always been an intentional part of your platform, to be this bridge between different races, cultures, and classes through music?
CeCe: It was just a byproduct of what we did. We were from Detroit, so Motown was around us, but my parents didn’t allow us to listen to secular music. So we found incredible gospel music—Andraé Crouch and Rance Allen. We heard very contemporary, very soulful gospel music. So when I started recording at 17, we were just young people who liked hip music. We didn’t think it was anything new or different.

It wasn’t until we were on the charts that people started asking, “Wow, this is gospel music?” Even now you listen to Andrae’s music and think, “Wow, he created this way back then?” His professionalism and production was always second to none, so we came out of the box wanting to make sure our production was just as good as anybody else on the radio and then just expressing ourselves the way we expressed ourselves. We never thought we would create this thing that would connect and show people how gospel music could be done.

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