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Marvin L. Winans will on ABC’s PANDEMIC this Friday at 1 p.m. EST and noon Central Time! He will discuss defeating coronavirus and his new single “It Belongs To Me” with his nephew Juan Winans and Juan’s wife Lisa.
Below is It Belongs To Me (feat. Marvin L. Winans) by Juan and Lisa Winans.
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Dare Records celebrates the release of gospel music’s premiere millennial GRAMMY-nominated couple, Juan and Lisa Winans’, official debut single, “It Belongs To Me,” featuring 6X GRAMMY-Award winner Marvin Winans, who is Juan’s uncle. Following the success of their 2018 Holiday EP, A Little Soul for Christmas, “It Belongs To Me” encourages all that the good news and promises of God are for them and will come to pass. It’s a beautifully rendered and timely message as the world faces a global health crisis and rising social and political unrest. “It Belongs To Me” will be available on all major digital retail outlets on Friday, May 8, 2020.
Juan Winans began his career with the Billboard #1 Gospel Album, “Winans Phase 2: We Got Next.” Juan and his sister Deborah Joy Winans (“Greenleaf”) toured in the original musical “Born For This: The BeBe Winans Story,” for which Juan won Best Male Lead at the 2019 NAACP Theater Awards. Lisa Winans (formerly Lisa Kimmey) is best known as one third of the Dove Award winning, Contemporary Christian Music trio, Out of Eden. The group was active from 1994 to 2006, producing seven albums. During Lisa’s tenure with Out of Eden, she appeared on the 90’s sitcom “Moesha,” and hosted original programming for the Gospel Music Channel. In 2006, Out of Eden retired and released a greatest hits compilation. The trio reunited in 2014 for a special Gotee Records compilation album with a cover of House of Heroes’ single “Constant.”
“Our single, (“It Belongs To Me”) is more than a song to us, it’s the way we are aspiring to live. Jesus said that He came to give us abundant life. That’s a big, bold statement and just one of many promises offered to us as children of God. This song is a declaration of our desire and dedication to living in those promises; to possessing every gift and blessing that God makes available to us through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. ‘It Belongs To Me’ is our anthem of grace and faith,” says Juan Winans.
Check out the single below!
This spring, Juan and Lisa Winans will appear on the second season of the NBC hit show “Songland” in an episode featuring Boyz II Men. “Songland” provides talented up-and-coming songwriters with a one-of-a-kind opportunity to collaborate with visionary music producers who are responsible for today’s biggest hits. The series’ innovative format takes an inside look at the creative process behind songwriting, and each episode provides one up-and-coming songwriter the opportunity to have their song recorded by a chart-topping artist. “SONGLAND” premiered Monday, April 13th at 10PM ET/PT on NBC. For more information on ‘Songland,’ visit https://www.nbc.com/songland.
“It Belongs To Me” will be available wherever music is sold and streamed on Friday, May 8, 2020. For more information on Juan and Lisa Winans visit JuanAndLisaWinans.com; follow them on social media using the handle @JuanAndLisaWinans. Dare Records is distributed by ADA (a Warner Music Group company).
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Hello World,
Just yesterday I was commenting about folk coming back from the ESSENCE Fest, and from the looks of things Le’Andria Johnson was not one of them after being allegedly being uninvited from ESSENCE Fest Gospel Lineup after going off on a video about Marvin Winans.
BlackChristianNews.com is reporting that Le’Andria claimed “the gospel legend dissed her and treated her like ‘a peasant.’ Johnson insists the incident is one of many with fellow artists of faith that’s led her to a breakdown.” It’s not clear where this encounter happened.
And she used some colorful language to describe her dismay below:
In a longer version of her rant below, she says she can be on a “Kirk Franklin level, Mary Mary level, Yolanda Adams, Marvin Sapp, Fred Hammond, you know what I’m saying, all the gospel greats, Tasha Cobbs, all the R&B Beyonce’, Brandy, I could be on that level. I could really be on that level. If I played the game, I could really be on that level. I could, but I’m not ’bout playin’ no games though.”
And it seems that maybe she is calling it quits on her career based on this tweet below:
LeAndria Le’Andria Johnson has went on strike!!!! No more money!!!!!! i’m a good person and I make sure that everybody else is good but me!!!! Enough is enough….as of today!!!!! Who could do for me like I do for them?????
— Le’Andria Johnson (@LeAndriaJ) July 6, 2018
She breaks down all that is bothering her on another even longer Facebook video. WARNING: More colorful language.
She is inviting her fans to meet her in Chicago in the third week of August (Aug. 18) for a free event of some sort according to the video…Apparently, she has something to reveal at this event…I guess she will announce further details later…
So I don’t have time to fully think this through this morning because I’m supposed to be on my way to worship service, but I will say this: On the heels of the release of the “Whitney” documentary on Friday, based on Le’Andria Johnson’s reaction to stardom and the industry, maybe all of that isn’t in her best interest. I’ve seen her sing in person and her voice is one of those rare voices that encompasses all (the sublime and the secular) that she has experienced. You will be transported to heaven and hell in listening to her! God has given her a gift! But maybe all of this discomfort that she continues to display is related to the spotlight she lives in. I don’t know. Just a thought. And maybe it was just simply an overreaction to a perceived slight from Marvin Winans. Most times we think someone is thinking about us and they are too wrapped up in self to be thinking about us at all. And even if he did slight her, so what? I look to my approval from God not man although sometimes it does hurt when folk don’t treat us like we want to be treated.
Alright, that’s all I got.
Should the ESSENCE Fest have cancelled her appearance this past weekend?
UPDATE: Le’Andria Johnson has apologized for how she expressed herself and to Bishop Marvin Winans and his church…
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