Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Today we speak with

legendary gospel singer C. C. C. Wienins who has sold over 12 million

records worldwide and won 10 Grammy Awards.

She is the best-selling female gospel artist of all time as of 2015.

C.C. talks about taking a break for music to start a church with her husband and how her life has been a

series of saying yes to God whenever he has called on her.

I'm C. C. Wienins and I am a gospel singer. Been singing all of my life. I'm originally from that.

No, not Nashville, Tennessee. I'm originally from Detroit, Michigan. I have been in Nashville for several years now, but I was

raised in a family, a singing family, my mom and dad both sang, and I had nine

other siblings and we all sing and record the

winen's family. So singing is my life. I love it and it's a ministry for me and it's amazing to see the power of music.

I don't think if it wasn't a calling it would be something even though I enjoy singing

I don't think it would have been something I would have chosen to do as a career

full-time. I begin to understand at a pretty young age that it was more than just a

career choice but a ministry that God had given me. We were asked to be a part of a

Christian TV network group of singers years ago in Charlotte, North Carolina, and they needed two more vocalists and they

asked BB and I to be a part of that group.

We had no plans or ideas or ever thought about being a duet, but they gave us a song to sing together in that group.

And it was a televised Christian network.

And the song was, Lord Lift Us Up.

They took the song Love List Us Up and changed the lyrics

and had us sing that song together.

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