Marvin Winans has focused on work as the pastor of Perfecting Church in Detroit, where he continues to record albums with the church’s choir, under the name Marvin Winans and the Perfected Praise Choir. He has 5 Grammy’s and 3 Gold Records, several NAACP Awards and Soul Train Awards after 30 years in the business.
On JCarvin received the President’s Merit Award from the Recording Academy in recognition of his extraordinary gifts as a passionate singer, performer, expressive communicator, and pioneer of contemporary gospel music. In October 2007 he was inducted in the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in Nashville Tennessee along with his brothers. He also co-founded, with Gladys Knight, the Gladys and Ron’s Chicken & Waffles restaurant chain. In addition to his involvement with The Winans, Ron released a solo album in the late 1980s on the EMI Gospel label, and recorded a series of five CDs, Ron Winans Family & Friends). He was married to Deborah Ann Coduto Winans (she died due to illness in 2007) and has a daughter, Seven Simone. David also has solo Christian rock projects, Xairia, DWP, and more recently, David Winans’ pi. David Winans II is an instrumentalist first, as bassist for “The Winanaires”, the earliest version of the Winans as a gospel quartet, before they became “The Testimonial Singers”.
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