Cece Winans: praise and worship - Sounding off: for the latest and hottest in Black music! - Brief Article

Ebony, Oct, 2003 by Lynn Norment

With a beautiful voice and heavenly spirit, Cece Winans takes listeners into the THRONE ROOM (Wellspring/Epic/INO) with her lush new recording. Working with longtime producers Cedric and Victor Caldwell, Winans delivers a soothing, touching set that succeeds in putting listeners in a mood of praise and worship.

Among the standouts are the beautiful "How Great Thou Art," the ethereal title song, co-written with Andrae Crouch, and the moving, emphatic "Mercy Said No." "Our purpose is to praise and worship Him," says Winans, who wrote half the songs in the set. She succeeds.