CeCe Winans, DOE and gospel artists had been among the many Christian singers to obtain prime honors on the 67th annual Grammy Awards hosted by Trevor Noah and held on the Crypto.com Area in Los Angeles Sunday evening.
Winans walked away with two Grammy awards, together with “Greatest Gospel Album” for Extra Than This and “Greatest Modern Christian Music Efficiency/Tune” for her collaboration on “That is My King,” which was recorded alongside Taylor Agan, Kellie Gamble, Lloyd Nicks and Jess Russ.
“Successful a Grammy is all the time an unimaginable honor, however to be acknowledged for music that uplifts and conjures up makes it much more particular,” mentioned Winans in an announcement. “I’m past grateful to God, my crew, and the superb supporters who proceed to imagine within the music and the message.”
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“Greatest Gospel Efficiency/Tune” went to a music collective together with Tasha Cobbs Leonard, Erica Campbell and Israel Houghton, that includes Jonathan McReynolds and Jekalyn Carr; with G. Morris Coleman, Israel Houghton, Kenneth Leonard Jr., Tasha Cobbs Leonard and Naomi Raine as songwriters.
“Greatest Roots Gospel Album” went to Cory Henry for Church, whereas DOE received within the “Greatest Modern Christian Music Album” along with her album Coronary heart of a Human, beating Elevation Worship, Forrest Frank, Brandon Lake, Maverick Metropolis Music, Naomi Raine and Chandler Moore.
The 36-year-old gospel artist signed to McReynolds’ Life Room Label in 2020 after first gaining worldwide consideration as an adolescent as lead singer of the group Perpetually Jones.
In an interview forward of the Grammy Awards, McReynolds informed CP he was “silently pulling” for Doe, including: “She’s superb. I actually need her to get it. Everyone else nominated already has a Grammy, in order that they’ll be alright. However I actually need this for her, so I’m praying for that.”
“Israel would not want one other Grammy. Tasha Cobbs would not want one other one, however hopefully DOE can get one, as a result of she’s completely been killing it,” he quipped.
This 12 months’s Grammy Awards raised greater than $7 million to assist these affected by the Los Angeles wildfires and native companies impacted by the fires had been spotlighted throughout industrial breaks.
The ultimate award of the evening, the album of the 12 months, was introduced by Los Angeles County firefighters, a few of whom misplaced their houses to the wildfires.
Winans’ massive win comes on the heels of the Gospel Music Affiliation Dove Awards, the place she took house the evening’s prime honor — “Artist of the Yr” — and received “Gospel Worship Album of the Yr” for Extra Than This, and “Inspirational Recorded Tune of the Yr” for “My Tribute (to God be the Glory).”
Winans beforehand informed CP that she needs to honor God by way of her artwork and inspired youthful believers to “simply be who God has known as you to be.”
“God has empowered them to be greater than sufficient for this era,” Winans mentioned. “I believe God is so superb that each era, He offers the skills, the items, precisely what they want. I simply need the younger individuals to be who they’re and take all the bounds off. … God will take you farther than what you would ever think about.”
Winans mentioned she hopes CCM “retains rising” and “covers the world,” stressing that “the world wants to listen to” the Good Information of the Gospel.
“That is what it is all about,” she mentioned.
