MULTI-GRAMMY-WINNING and multi-platinum-selling American gospel recording artiste CeCe Winans will take her More Than This ‘Caribbean Tour’ to Jamaica on August 1, Emancipation Day.

The event, which is being spearheaded by Come Alive Collective, is scheduled to take place at King’s House, East Lawn.

In a post on the event’s
Facebook page, the organisers said: “This will be an unforgettable evening of worship and inspiration.”

CeCe Winans will take a leg of the tour to Trinidad and Tobago on July 31 before heading to Jamaica for her first performance locally in six years.

She last performed in Jamaica in 2018 at Gosplash 6 at Liguanea Golf Club in New Kingston.

The More Than This Tour kicked off in February and will run into the summer. Part proceeds from the staging of the concert in Jamaica will benefit Bustamante Hospital for Children’s Ophthalmology Unit and Yadel Home for Children.

“This concert will bring together families and music lovers for a celebration of faith, music, and community through an evening of inspiring live performances with the #1 international gospel artiste CeCe Winans, as well as some of our most renowned local gospel artistes. This event is more than just a concert; it is a powerful platform for celebrating our hard-earned emancipation and fostering community spirit, hope, and positivity,” the post on the organiser’s Facebook page read.

Priscilla Marie Winans Love, known professionally as CeCe Winans, has won 17 Grammy Awards, the most for any female gospel singer; 31 GMA Dove Awards; 19 Stellar Awards; seven NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) Image Awards; four Billboard Music Awards; along with many other awards and honours to her credit, including being one of the inaugural inductees into the Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame in Atlanta, Georgia.

She is the best-selling and most-awarded female gospel singer of all time and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and Music City Walk of Fame.

Sales of her music have exceeded 19 million record sales certified by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), making her one of the best-selling gospel music artistes.

She first rose to prominence in the 1980s as a member of the double platinum-selling gospel duo BeBe & CeCe Winans with her brother, before launching her own highly acclaimed solo career in the mid-1990s.

She scored several chart hits, collaborations with her brother, namely a cover of the Staple Singers’
I’ll Take You There, featuring Mavis Staples, which soared to #1 on Billboard’s Hot R&B Singles chart in 1991. It’s Okay and Addictive Love were also #1 hits in 1991.

CeCe’s solo hits include 18 entries on Billboard’s Hot Gospel Songs chart, with That’s My King, Believe For It, and Pray, all peaking at #1. Over on Billboard’s Hot Christian Songs chart, she has to date scored 10 entries.

The artiste has to date earned 12 entries on Billboard’s Gospel Airplay chart, including five #1 titles — Believe For It, Never Lost, Pray, That’s My King, and Goodness of God — the most streamed gospel song locally in 2024.

CeCe Winans currently has the #1 song on Billboard’s Hot Gospel Songs chart with That’s My King (#1 for 42 weeks), with Come Jesus Come at #7 and Holy Forever with Jenn Johnson at #23.

On the latest Gospel Streaming Songs chart, Goodness of God is #2 after 134 weeks, That’s My King is at #5, and Holy Forever is at #12.

Meanwhile, Goodness of God is spending its 116th week at #1 on Billboard’s Gospel Digital Song Sales chart with Believe For It holding at #7 after 209 weeks on the chart.

Last April, CeCe Winans released her most-anticipated second live album More Than This, which went straight to #1 on Billboard Top Gospel Albums chart, Top Christian Albums chart.

More Than This won Best Gospel Album at the 67th Grammy Awards 2025. The artiste was also honoured for Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Songs for That’s My King.