CeCe Winans Named Belmont University's Inaugural Artist-In-Residence musicrow.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from musicrow.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Belmont is excited to debut its new Fisher Center for the Performing Arts to its students and to the public. It was about a three-year build, from start to finish.
“When we started managing CeCe [two years ago], looking back at her catalog, we were shocked that she’d never done a live record, says Chaz Corzine, partner in the MWS Group, which manages Winans. And we just got to the point of going, ‘With or without a pandemic, this is the right thing to do.’”
Although the planning began pre-pandemic with a large audience, COVID-19 restrictions changed Winans plans to a smaller, but still passionate crowd. For Winans, the connection and message is the same regardless of the number in attendance.
“It was pretty powerful with just a few people that we had,” Winans says of the socially distanced audience of around 30 people. “It was so intimate. I just get lost in worship. It doesn’t matter if it’s a lot of people or a few people because that’s my life. I can go from a storefront church to a packed-out stadium, and I just give God everything I have, no matter who is there or who is not there. My prayer is always the same: