Biography

Benjamin “BeBe” Winans is a six-time Grammy Award winner and the seventh child and youngest male of the Detroit-based first family of gospel music. He is known as an inspirational R&B vocalist and songwriter who, along with his musical partner and sister CeCe Winans, is among the first true Christian crossover artists to hit the mainstream. In addition to his Grammy Awards (three solo and three with CeCe), he has won 10 Dove Awards, six Stellar Awards, four NAACP Awards (three with CeCe and one with 3WB with brothers Marvin and Carvin), and three Soul Train Music Awards (two of them with sister CeCe). He has had nine Gold and Platinum recordings with CeCe, and his single from the album He Promised Me reached No. 1 on the Billboard Gospel airplay charts. As a solo artist, Winans has released seven albums with guest appearances from Eric Clapton, Stevie Wonder, David Foster, Anita Baker, Whitney Houston, and other members of the Winans family. The musical Born For This: The BeBe Winans Story, cowritten and directed by Charles Randolph-Wright with book, music, and lyrics cowritten by Winans, received critically-acclaimed productions at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, and Arena Stage in Washington, DC. As an actor, Winnans has appeared with Denzel Washington in The Manchurian Candidate and in The Color Purple on Broadway. BeBe and CeCe Winans are the first brother-and-sister to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He made his San Francisco Symphony debut in December 2015.