Winans demonstrates her affinity with contemporary worship music with her cover of Gateway Music's "I Have a Savior." While the original jumps through octaves making the song extremely difficult to sing, Winans eliminates the melodic hills and valleys, making the song more palatable. Best among the batch are her worship song covers.
However, this doesn't mean that Winans is on cruise control she does interact meaningfully with her audience and she even offers an altar call after "I Have a Savior" which is one of the album's highlights. Whilst many live records falter from too many meaningless ab-libs or ceaseless chatter, the songs tightly flow one into another. Comprising of newly scripted songs, some of her older material, and her cover of contemporary worship songs, this is a stellar collection of 13 well-curated songs (plus two studio versions of "Never Lost" and the title cut "Believe for It"). Yet, despite her success in the music industry since the early 80s, "Believe For It (Live)" is her first ever live record. Smith, Patti LaBelle, BeBe Winans, Mary Mary, Vince Gill, and many others. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, she has sold over 5 million albums worldwide, and she has collaborated with stalwarts such as Whitney Houston, Michael W. Prime Cuts: I Have a Savior, Hunger, Jesus, You're BeautifulĬeCe Winans has won 2 Grammy Awards and 23 GMA Dove Awards.