Grammy Award-winning BeBe and CeCe Winans
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Grammy Award-winning BeBe (Benjamin) and CeCe (Priscilla) Winans are the seventh and eighth of icon "Mom" and "Pop" Winans' ten children who have three Gold and one Platinum album since they began recording in the 1980's. While joking about his early bedtime and how young Mary Mary are, the trim and lithe BeBe danced like a 28-year-old to the kinetic, two-keyboard band.
After an early intermission, Mary Mary delivered a generous set including "Walking," "Seattle" and the 2000 hit that put them on the Gospel and urban contemporary map, "Shackles." Their 2005 "Yesterday," also a crossover hit, allowed the sisters to display their prodigious vocal, and emotional, range while seated on stools. And "Something Big" from the 2011 album recording of the same name, rocked and riveted the ornate hall with its anthem like call-and-response: "Tell me what you know about Jesus/He's alright."
Returning for a second set BeBe, in a sparkling black shirt and CeCe, in a yellow gown adorned with a star necklace, performed their popular "Celebrate New Life," "Addictive Love," and "Lost Without You." The seven-minute "Grace," beginning softly but soaring into an urgent entwined duet, and the even longer "Never Thought" with its crescendo-ing "Never thought I'd be so happy" -- were audience favorites. And when the three solid but easy-to-miss backup singers were given solos, chanting "that's-what-He-said" as each stormed the middle of the stage and walked the Winans off, it brought the house down.
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