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*American Family Insurance has partnered with one of the most influential and recognized voices in gospel, Grammy Award-winner Marvin Winans, to write an original song for its third annual Jingle Dreams contest. His first commissioned piece, Winans will debut the song titled, “Awaken,” during the 14th Annual Super Bowl Gospel Celebration in New Orleans, La. [...]
*Fantasia has been booked to perform at this year’s Super Bowl Gospel Celebration, to be hosted by “The View’s” Sherri Shepherd at the UNO Lakefront Arena in New Orleans as part of Super Bowl XLVII weekend. Marvin Winans, Donnie McClurkin and Kirk Franklin are scheduled to appear at the 14th annual concert. Proceeds from the [...]
*Pastor Marvin L. Winans was recently in the news when his car was jacked in Detroit, Michigan. In a new interview with Essence, the pastor assured readers that everything is alright with him. Like EURweb on Facebook Pastor Winans took a few moments with ESSENCE.com to chat about his one of his first songs, why [...]
*The Rev. Marvin Winans is making headway in his case against three carjackers who robbed him of his vehicle at a gas station outside of Detroit on May 16. On Monday, the singer and church founder identified Montoya Givens, Christopher Moorehead, and Brian Young as his assailants. The men are being charged with carjacking, unarmed [...]
*When folks start giving Marvin Winans the side eye, at least he’ll have a pretty good idea why. It turns out that the prominent Detroit clergyman and chart-topping gospel singing star was driving without a valid license when he was beaten, robbed and carjacked last week. In fact, at the time, Winans had a warrant [...]
*Three young men were arraigned Sunday in the assault and carjacking of Detroit pastor and gospel singer Marvin Winans. The office of Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy identified the suspects as Detroit residents Montoya Givens and Christopher Moorehead, both 20, and Brian K. Young, 18, of Macomb County’s Clinton Township, reports the Associated Press. They [...]
*(Via WXYZ / Detroit) – Pastor Marvin Winans’ SUV remains missing as of Thursday morning and so do the men who punched, kicked and robbed the famous gospel singer. Winans’ was pumping gas Wednesday afternoon at a Detroit Citgo station on the corner of Linwood and Davison when at least two men ambushed him. The carjackers [...]
*Millions of Whitney Houston fans watched final tributes from family and friends during the live broadcast of her home going celebration at Newark’s New Hope Baptist on Saturday, February 18, 2012, just one week after her untimely passing in Beverly Hills, California due to unknown causes. It was a dignified ceremony that maintained reverence of [...]
*CeCe Winans, godmother to Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown’s daughter Bobbi Kristina, is promising to be “very involved” in the 18-year-old’s life, a source tells E! Online’s Marc Malkin. The celebrated gospel singer and longtime friend of Houston has reportedly “been praying regularly specifically for Bobbi Kristina,” according to the source. Soon after learning of [...]
*As we reported, Whitney Houston’s hometown is honoring her on Saturday morning by flying the flag at half-staff, according to an announcement made by the state’s governor, Chris Christie Meanwhile, Pastor Marvin Winans has been chosen to deliver the eulogy for his longtime friend at her funeral Saturday in New Jersey. Winans is a Grammy [...]
*“I’m the big bad wolf Donte’ trying to impose my will or those around me,” Marvin Winans, Jr. said about his character in the film Dreams, which he produces – along with the film’s director Joel Kapity. The movie Dreams, due out this fall, is a collection of stories based on real-life situations of a [...]
*In the same amount of time it took God to create the universe – a week – the Soul Seekers said let there be music and there was music. “We started rehearsing with a clean slate. Just seven days before we didn’t have not [sic] one song,” Warryn Campbell (Luther, Brandy, Kanye) one of the [...]
*Detroit has a long rich history between its strippers and patrons. So, it’s only fitting that Detroit’s City Council President, Charles Pugh, got up and expressed his displeasure with the way the patrons and owners of the strip clubs are being discriminated against during the city’s latest attempt at a crackdown on the red light district. According [...]
*I Can Do Bad All by Myself is the sixth Tyler Perry play to be adapted to the big screen. Much like his previous productions, this faith-based message movie was crafted with an African-American audience in mind, between all the down-home humor and earnest moralizing around universal themes particularly of relevance to the black community. [...]
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