As a teenager in 1982, Cece Winans moved to North Carolina to sing on the Christian show The PTL Club with BeBe Winans while also attending beauty school.
Laser-focused on her goals, an encounter back home in Detroit, Michigan changed Cece's life forever. She met Alvin Love II in a bowling alley with a few friends. Although they didn't speak, the two were lovestruck. As Alvin told Today's Christian Woman, "Ronald, Cece's second-oldest brother, had befriended me at church... When you meet one of the Winanses, eventually you meet the rest."
With connections in both family and faith, Cece thought Alvin was "cute" but was too occupied with music. Alvin thought the singer was "really pretty" and later travelled to Charlotte to see her sing on PTL. Their meetings in North Carolina were full of laughs, paving the way for their eventual down-to-earth marriage. Cece describes "jumping up and down" that week, with Alvin feeling "strongly" that he had met his future wife. He was right – the pair married just 2 years later (via Encyclopedia).
As Winans pursued music, Love supported her every step of the way, leaving his job at Xerox to manage Cece's career. Today, they share two adult children, 36-year-old music producer Alvin Love III (via NPR) and 33-year-old Ashley Love (via Information Cradle), and live in Brentwood, Tennessee happily running their renown church (via Visit Music City).
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