April 08, 2009

By AP

David Winans Sr., the patriarch of that gospel music family, has died in Nashville. He was 76.

A statement from a Los Angeles public relations company representing the family said he died Wednesday at a hospice in Nashville. He had been at the hospice since January after suffering a heart attack and stroke last
October.

He sang with his wife and solo. He was the father of BeBe and CeCe Winans, known for their hits ?Addictive Love? and ?I?ll Take You There.?

Funeral arrangements were pending.

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