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Cece Winans is an American gospel singer and author. She has garnered 15 Grammy Awards, the most for a female gospel singer; 31 GMA Dove Awards, 17 Stellar Awards, 7 NAACP Image Awards, along with many other awards and honors to her credit including being one of the inaugural inductees into the Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame.
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Winans is 60 years old. She was born on October 8, 1964, in Detroit, Michigan, United States. She celebrates her birthday on October 8 every year and her birth sign is Libra.
Winans stands at a height of 5 feet 3 inches (1.59 m). Her body measurements are 34-25-34 inches.
Winans Weighs 59 kg (130 lbs). She has dark brown eyes and black hair.
Winans was born on 8 October 1964, in Detroit, Michigan. CeCe is the eighth of ten children born to Delores and David Winans, both devout members of the Church of God in Christ. Gospel music filled their home, with four of her older brothers forming the renowned group, The Winans.
Though formal education was important, music remained a driving force. While in high school, CeCe even skipped a grade to further pursue her musical ambitions. While Mumford High School provided a well-rounded education, CeCe’s real musical education came from singing in church, performing with her family, and soaking up the rich gospel tradition that surrounded her.
CeCe joined her siblings in church choirs and family performances, soaking up the rich gospel tradition and honing her powerful vocals at a young age. At 17, CeCe and her brother BeBe joined Pat Robertson’s “Praise the Lord” show, gaining national exposure and showcasing their soulful harmonies.
The brother-sister duo became a gospel force, their music reaching beyond the Christian market and finding mainstream success. Crossover Hit: Their single “I’ll Take Your Hand” in 1988 topped the Billboard Hot 100, making them the first gospel act to achieve such a feat.
Winans was born to her father Pop Winans and her mother Delores Winans in Michigan. Her parents are David “Pop” Winans Sr., born on 20 April 1934 and died on 8 April 2009. Cece’s family is known as the Winans family which composes of gospel music artists from Detroit, Michigan.
Winans has nine siblings, seven brothers named BeBe Winans, Marvin Winans, Ronald Winans, Daniel Winans, Carvin Winans, Michael Winans, and David Winans Jr., and two sisters named Angelique Winans-Caldwell and Debra Renee Winans-Lowe.
Bebe and Cece are siblings, they are the seventh and eighth of the Winans family. They are an American gospel music duo and together they have received several awards including three Grammys.
They debuted in 1982 as part of the singing group The PTL Singers on the Christian television show The PTL Club. They recorded their first album,’ Lord Lift Us Up’ as a duo for PTL Records. They left the PTL singers in 1987 to pursue a musical career and were signed by Sparrow Records. Their mainstream debut release was the self-titled album ‘BeBe & CeCe Winans’.
Winans is married to Alvin Love II. The couple had their wedding on June 23, 1984. They are blessed with two children named Ashley Love and Alvin Love III. Their children were featured in the BeBe & Winans music video “If Anything Ever Happened to You”. Winans resides in Brentwood, Tennessee, a suburb of Nashville alongside her husband Alvin.
Winans and her husband Alvin Love II have two children together, a son named Alvin Love III and a daughter named Ashley Love. Alvin III is a songwriter and producer. He won a Grammy Award for Best Gospel Performance/Song.
Cece’s daughter Ashley Love got married in September 2017.
Winans has an estimated net worth of 8 million dollars. This includes her assets, money, and income. Her primary source of income is her career as a gospel singer and author. Through her various sources of income, Cece has been able to accumulate good fortune but prefers to lead a modest lifestyle.
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Luke Bryan is an American Television Personality, Country Singer, and Songwriter born in Leesburg, Georgia, United States. Bryan is a five-time “Entertainer of the Year”, being rewarded by both the Country Music Association and the Academy of Country Music Awards.
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[Read more…] about Roy Rogers Facts: Bio, Age, Height, Weight, Family, Wife and Net WorthJean Shepard born Ollie Imogene Shepard was an American honky tonk singer-songwriter. She was born November 21, 1933, in Paul’s Valley, Oklahoma. Jean spent most of her formative years in Visalia, CA, near Bakersfield.
She was born November 21, 1933, in Pauls Valley, OK, United States and died on September 25, 2016, in Nashville, TN, United States, at the age of 82.
She was born November 21, 1933, in Pauls Valley, OK, United States and died on September 25, 2016, in Nashville, TN, United States, at the age of 82.
Shepard stood at an average height and had moderate weight.
Jean who was born as Ollie Imogene Shepard was raised in Visalia, California, near Bakersfield. When Shepard was a teenager, she played bass in the Melody Ranch Girls, an all-female band formed in 1948. Hank Thompson discovered Shepard a few years later. Shepard signed with Capitol Records in 1952 with the help of Thompson.
Following the success of Kitty Wells’ “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels”. Shepard cut four songs at her first session with popular band players Jimmy Bryant, Speedy West, Cliffie Stone, and Billy Strange. She recorded her first single for the label in 1952, “Crying Steel Guitar Waltz”, but it failed to chart.
Jean was married to Benny Birchfield, a musician, singer and prominent member of Nashville’s music community. In 1960, she married fellow Opry star, Hawkshaw Hawkins, who had come to the Opry the same year she did. She was eight months pregnant with his son when Hawkins died in the 1963 plane crash that also killed Patsy Cline and country star Cowboy Copas.
She had three sons namely Corey Birchfield, Don Robin Hawkins, and Hawkshaw Hawkins Jr.
Jean Shepard has an estimated Net Worth of $18 Million as of 2022. This includes her assets, money, and income. Her primary source of income is her career as a singer/songwriter. Through her various sources of income, Jean has been able to accumulate a good fortune but prefers to lead a modest lifestyle. Shepard largely invested in her career for more than six decades.
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She was one of ten children, who Jean says, were all musically inclined. Because music was such an important part of her life, it was only natural that in her early teens, she helped form and become the lead singer in an all-girl band called “The Melody Ranch Girls.” She played bass in the Melody Ranch Girls. The all-female band was formed in 1948.
Fate took a hand almost immediately. In one of her early performances with The Ranch Girls, Jean appeared with Hank Thompson. He was impressed enough with the talented newcomer to arrange introductions which ultimately would lead to Jean’s recording contract with Capitol Records.
For over 21 years Jean remained under contract to Capitol, selling countless millions of records, including Dear John Letter, Beautiful Lies, Many Happy Hangovers, Seven Lonely Days, Then He Touched Me, Satisfied Mind, and Second Fiddle.
In the early 70″s Jean moved to UA Records where she continued to have #1 records such as Slippin’ Away, Poor Sweet Baby, At The Time, and Tips Of My Fingers.
Shepard’s first chart appearance was 1953’s duet with Ferlin Husky, with “A Dear John Letter”. It was a No. 1 smash and also became a major crossover pop hit, peaking at No. 4 on the Billboard pop chart. The song struck a chord with audiences as it was a half-spoken duet about a soldier in the Korean War.
The duo’s follow-up, “Forgive Me John”, was another crossover hit, peaking in the Top 10 on the country chart and the top 25 on the pop chart. Because at 20 she was still a minor, Shepard’s parents signed her rights to Husky so she could tour. In 1955, Shepard joined ABC-TV’s nationally telecast Ozark Jubilee for several years and recorded her first studio album, Songs of a Love Affair, written by Shepard.
She also charted her first solo top ten single, “A Satisfied Mind”, that same year, backed by the No. 13 hit, “Take Possession”. “A Satisfied Mind” peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard country chart. Shepard had another top-five hit the same year with “Beautiful Lies”. Its flip side, “I Thought of You”, peaked in the country top ten.
Her streak of hit singles led to an invitation to join the Grand Ole Opry in 1955 as one of its few female stars; Kitty Wells and Minnie Pearl were the only others. Because she was a honky-tonk singer when the Nashville sound was popular, Shepard had just two charting country singles between 1956 and 1963.
Those two singles, 1958’s “I Want to Go Where No One Knows Me” and 1959’s “Have Heart Will Love”; earned her the title of Cash Box’s Top Female Artist of 1959.
In 1960, Shepard married fellow Opry star Hawkshaw Hawkins, whom she had met on Ozark Jubilee. He died three years later in the same plane crash that killed Patsy Cline and Cowboy Copas. Shepard gave birth to their son Hawkshaw Jr. just one month after the crash. She later married country music musician and singer Benny Birchfield; the two remained married until her death. He was injured in a stabbing along with their granddaughter, who died, December 18, 2016, in his home in Tennessee.
Shepard returned to the top 10 in 1964 with “Second Fiddle (To an Old Guitar)”, which began a string of hits[3] and proved a commercial comeback as well. In 1964 and 1965, she had two Top 40 hits with “A Tear Dropped By” and “Someone’s Gotta Cry”, from the Heart, We Did All That We Could LP released in 1967.
In 1966, Shepard recorded a duet with country singer Ray Pillow titled “I’ll Take the Dog”, which peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard country chart. This was followed by two solo hit singles the same year: the top 10 hits “If the Teardrops Were Silver” and the top 15 hits “Many Happy Hangovers to You”.
In 1967, Shepard had two top 20 hits with the title track of Heart, We Did All That We Could and the single “Your Forevers Don’t Last Very Long”. The following year, she had only one Top 40 hit but continued to release albums, which included 1968’s A Real Good Woman. In 1969, Shepard’s LP, Seven Lonely Days, produced the hit single of the same name that reached the top 20.
With the release of 1969’s “Then He Touched Me”, Shepard had a top 10 hit, followed by three hits in 1970, including the top 15 hits “Another Lonely Night”. Shepard had one more Top 40 hit with 1971’s “With His Hand in Mine”.
In the early 1970s, Shepard moved to United Artists Records. Her first single for the label in 1973, the Bill Anderson-penned “Slippin’ Away”, was her biggest solo hit since the 1950s. The single peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard country chart and charted on the Billboard pop chart, peaking outside the Top 40.
Shepard’s hits continued throughout the 1970s, though as the decade wore on she hit the Top 40 less frequently. She had three top 20 hits in 1974, beginning with the No. 13 smash “At the Time” and “I’ll Do Anything it Takes (to Stay with You)”. In 1975, Shepard recorded an album of songs written by Bill Anderson titled Poor Sweet Baby (and Ten More Bill Anderson Songs).
Both singles from the album were top 20 hits on the Billboard country chart between 1974 and 1975 and were her last Top 40 singles. Shepard was known in country music as a “staunch traditionalist” and created some controversy when she served as president of the Association of Country Entertainers, formed in response to Olivia Newton-John’s CMA Female Vocalist of the Year win in 1974.
The organization was intended to keep country music “pure” and criticized the pop influences at the time. Shepard defended “pure” country music again nearly 40 years later, criticizing singer and TV personality Blake Shelton for a comment in which he referred to fans of the traditional country as “old farts and jackasses”: “We’ve got a young man in country music who has made some pretty dumb statements lately.
What did he say? That traditional country music is for old farts and jack-you-know-whats? Well, I guess that makes me an old fart. I love country music. I won’t tell you what his name is…but his initials is BS…and he’s full of it!” In 1975 and 1976, Shepard recorded two albums, I’m a Believer and Mercy/Ain’t Love Good and then left the label in 1976. In response, United Artists released a Greatest Hits compilation.
Between 1977 and 1978, she recorded for the smaller GRT label, which produced minor hit singles on the Billboard country chart. She had her last charting record in 1978 under the label with “The Real Thing”.
After leaving GRT at the end of the 1970s, Shepard did not record again until 1981, when she released a final studio album under the label Laserlight titled, Dear John, which included remakes of her hits, including “A Dear John Letter” and “Slippin’ Away”, and also included a new song, “Too Many Rivers”. She continued to perform at the Grand Ole Opry and to tour, both in the US and in the UK, where she had a strong fan base, until 2015. Her work was reissued by Bear Family Records.
In 2005, Shepard celebrated 50 years as a member of the Opry and, at the time of her death, she was the longest-running living member of the Opry. In 2011, Shepard was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame along with songwriter Bobby Braddock and fellow Oklahoma singer Reba McEntire.
In 2014, Shepard’s autobiography, Down Through the Years, was published. On November 21, 2015, Shepard became the first woman to be a member of the Grand Ole Opry for 60 consecutive years—a feat that only one other person has achieved. She retired from the stage that night.
On September 25, 2016, Shepard died of Parkinson’s disease at the age of 82. Shepard would be posthumously featured in Ken Burns’ Country Music in 2019.
2014 – Down Through the Years
Jean died of Parkinson’s disease.
[Lead]
Oooh, down through the years the lords been good to me
(Choir)
Down through the years the lords been good to me (2 times)
[Let me tell you that the Lord] Really been good to me
[Lead]
Oooh, those devils had me bound the Lord been good to me
(Choir)
The devil had me bound the Lord been good to me (2 times)
[Let me tell you that the Lord] Really been good to me
[Lead]
Well I know I got good religion, I didn’t get it in no tree
Shake me, wake me in the midnight hour and I’ll tell you everything I’ve seen
I’m trying to tell you down through the years the lords been good to me
(Choir)
Down through the years the lords been good to me (2 times)
[Let me tell you that the Lord] Really been good to me
[Lead]
Oooh, Fix me Jesus fix me, c’mon and fix me if you please
But if you can’t fix me while I’m standin up, I’ll bow down on my knees
I’m trying to tell you down through the years the lords been good to me (repeat chorus)
[Chorus]
The Lord been good (repeat)
Ollie Imogene Shepard was an American honky tonk singer-songwriter.
Shepard is dead. Jean died of Parkinson’s disease on September 25, 2016, in Nashville, TN, United States, at the age of 82.
Jean died of Parkinson’s disease on September 25, 2016, in Nashville, TN, United States, at the age of 82.
Shepard is dead. Jean died of Parkinson’s disease on September 25, 2016, in Nashville, TN, United States, at the age of 82.
Jean died of Parkinson’s disease on September 25, 2016, in Nashville, TN, United States, at the age of 82.
Jean Shepard has an estimated Net Worth of $18 Million as of 2022. This includes her assets, money, and income. Her primary source of income is her career as a singer/songwriter. Through her various sources of income, Jean has been able to accumulate a good fortune but prefers to lead a modest lifestyle. Shepard largely invested in her career for more than six decades.
Jean Shepard has an estimated Net Worth of $18 Million as of 2022. This includes her assets, money, and income. Her primary source of income is her career as a singer/songwriter. Through her various sources of income, Jean has been able to accumulate a good fortune but prefers to lead a modest lifestyle. Shepard largely invested in her career for more than six decades.
Shepard died at the age of 82, she was born November 21, 1933, in Pauls Valley, OK, United States and died on September 25, 2016, in Nashville, TN, United States.
Shepard stood at an average height and had moderate weight. Jean’s actual height has not been provided.
Jean was married to Benny Birchfield, a musician, singer and prominent member of Nashville’s music community. In 1960, she married fellow Opry star, Hawkshaw Hawkins, who had come to the Opry the same year she did. She was eight months pregnant with his son when Hawkins died in the 1963 plane crash that also killed Patsy Cline and country star Cowboy Copas.
Jean died in 2016, she had made a great fortune from her music career. Her family still gets the profits of her selling albums that are played and sold all over the globe.
Jean died in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.
Shepard is dead.Shepard died at the age of 82, she was born November 21, 1933, in Pauls Valley, OK, United States and died on September 25, 2016, in Nashville, TN, United States.
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Sandi Patty is a prominent American Christian music singer born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States. She is well known for her wide soprano vocal range and expressive flexibility.
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Patty is 68 years old, she was born on July 12th, 1956, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States. She celebrates her birthday on July 12 every year, and her zodiac sign is Cancer.
Sandi Patty stands at a height of 5 feet 3 inches (1.60 m) tall.
Patty has a moderate weight. She chose medical tourism operator, MBC, to renew her life. She lost 90 lbs with gastric sleeve surgery in Mexico.9 May 2023
Patty was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, into a family of musicians; her father was a minister of music, whereas her mother operated as the church pianist. She first acted at the age of two when she sang “Jesus Loves Me” for her church, Phoenix First Church of God. First growing up in Phoenix, then San Diego, she and her brothers joined their parents in a performing group known as “The Ron Patty Family”, and sang at churches nationwide during summer holidays.
After graduating from Crawford High School in San Diego, she proceeded to San Diego State University and Anderson University in Anderson, Indiana, where she learned voice with soprano Greta Dominic though graduated with a focus on conducting. While studying at Anderson University, she operated as a studio musician for area recording studios, singing background vocals and recording commercial jingles, including one for Juicy Fruit gum.
Her prominence as a performer and studio singer grew during the late 1970s, and it was during this time that she started contact with legendary Christian musician Bill Gaither.
Patty headlined her first national expedition in 1984 and earned national credit after her rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” was comprised during the ABC Statue of Liberty re-dedication broadcast on July 6, 1986.
Sandi is the considerable awarded female vocalist in contemporary Christian music history, with 40 Dove Awards. She has with five Grammy awards, four Billboard Music Awards, three platinum records, five gold records, and eleven million units sold.
Patty is the daughter of Carolyn Patty (mother) and Ron Patty (father). Patty was born into a musical family as her father was a minister of music while her mother served as the church pianist.
Patty grew up alongside her sister, Amy Patty, and her two brothers Craig Patty and Michael Patty.
Patty is married to her beloved husband Don Perlis. The couple had their wedding in 1995 and together they are blessed with eight children. The family currently resides in Oklahoma City, OK.
In 1992, the news of Patty’s divorce from manager John Helvering shook the gospel music industry. The reason for the split was later told to be infidelity which subsequently stalled her career in the mid-90s. During her marriage, it was later revealed that Patty had an extramarital affair with her backup singer, Don Peslis, who was also married at the time. Patty divorced her husband Helvering in 1993 and married Peslis in August 1995.
As a blended family, Patty and Don Perlis have eight children and eight grandchildren.
Sandi Patty’s net worth is estimated at 20 million dollars. This includes her assets, money, and income. Her primary source of income is her career as a Christian Music Singer. Through her various sources of income, Sandi has accumulated good fortune but prefers to lead a modest lifestyle.
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Patty has had two homes; (former) in Anderson, Indiana (IN), US. He lived here until 2009. She purchased a new home on NW 163rd Terrace in Edmond (OK) on February 19, 2009, for $267K.
Legendary gospel singer Sandi Patty announced on March 17, 2020, that she had tested positive for the coronavirus. The songstress returned home to Oklahoma City a week before and said she recalled feeling sick for weeks. She decided to get tested for COVID-19 and the results came back positive on March 17, 2020. “Friends – Today I received confirmation that I tested positive for COVID-19.
I am at home and Don and I are under quarantine for the next 14 days. I’m so impressed with how our Health Department handled my case and grateful for their attentiveness. They are working so hard right now to keep us all safe,” Patty wrote along with a Facebook video message. After returning home, Patty said she just stayed home with her husband, Don, and avoided going to work at Crossings Community Church in Oklahoma City.
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