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Priscilla Marie Winans Love, known professionally as CeCe Winans, /ˈwaɪnænz/ (born October 8, 1964) is an American gospel singer who has garnerned 15 Grammy Awards, the most for any female gospel singer; 31 GMA Dove Awards, 17 Stellar Awards, 7 NAACP Image Awards, along with many other awards and honors to her credit including being one of the inaugural inductees into the Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame in Atlanta, Georgia. Winans is the best-selling and most-awarded female gospel artist of all time and is considered to be one of the greatest gospel artists of traditional gospel, Contemporary Christian Music, R&B, and contemporary/urban Gospel Music. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and has 17 million record sales certified by RIAA, and over 19 million estimated in total sales as a solo artist in the United States alone. She first rose to prominence between the 1980s and 1990s as a member of the Gospel duo BeBe & CeCe Winans with her brother, Bebe Winans; before launching her own highly acclaimed solo career. Billboard magazine lists all of her solo albums as top Gospel, Christian, and R&B music sellers, and six albums as a duo with her older brother Bebe.