Pop Winans
| Pop Winans | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | David Glenn Winans, Sr. |
| Born |
April 20, 1934 Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
| Died | April 8, 2009 (aged 74) Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Genres | Christian, Gospel |
| Occupation(s) | Singer |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 1980s-2008 |
| Associated acts | BeBe Winans, BeBe & CeCe Winans, Carlton D. Pearson, Carvin Winans, CeCe Winans, Daniel Winans, James Cleveland, Marvin Winans, Ronald Winans, The Winans, Winans family |
David Glenn Winans, Sr. (April 20, 1934–April 8, 2009), better known to the general public as "Pop" Winans, was an American gospel music singer and band manager. Winans was best known as the manager of the gospel group The Winans during its early years in the 1980s and as the patriarch of the Winans family.
Pop Winans also had a solo career in music, releasing a CD of gospel music with his wife Delores "Mom" Winans called Mom & Pop Winans in 1989. The CD was nominated for a Grammy Award. Winans himself received a gospel nomination for best traditional gospel album for his solo album Uncensored in 2000.
Winans was born David Glenn on April 20, 1934 in Detroit, Michigan. His parents never married and he was raised by his mother, Laura Glenn, a singer with the Zion Congressional Church of God in Christ. However, Winans was brought up in Detroit's Mack Avenue Church of God in Christ, of which his paternal grandfather, Isaiah Winans, was the pastor. His father, Carvin Winans (April 16, 1902–February 1, 1992), denied paternity of David. When he grew up, David changed his surname from Glenn to Winans at the request of his grandfather.
At the age of 18, Winans began singing with The Nobelaires, a soul group in Detroit. Winans played the saxophone and the clarinet and joined the Lucille Lemon Gospel Chorus in 1950. However, after his children were born, Winans put aside his singing career and would not sing professionally again for the next 30 years.
Delores Ransom was born on September 22, 1936 in Detroit. Her father was a baker and her mother was a homemaker. She has one sister. As a youth, Delores learned how to play the piano and as an adolescent began piano playing for the Lucille Lemon Gospel Chorus. Ransom was the chorus' pianist for ten years. In 1950, Ransom and Winans met for the first time. The two soon began to date and were married at Zion Congressional COGIC on November 21, 1953.
The couple's eldest child, David Winans, Jr., now an engineer, was born on September 24, 1954. Six more sons; Ronald, Carvin II, Marvin (fraternal twins), Michael, Daniel and Benjamin "BeBe", were born before the Winans' first daughter Priscilla Marie (CeCe Winans) was born on October 8, 1964. Two more daughters; Angelique "Angie" (born 1968) and Debbie (born 1972), were born to David and Delores completing the set of ten children born to the couple.
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