The Daily Swarm

Associated Press

David “Pop” Winans Sr., the Grammy-nominated patriarch of the award-winning gospel music family, died Wednesday. He was 74.

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

Detroit News

Lovingly referred to as Mom and Pop Winans, the deeply rooted Detroit couple crafted an impressive career that later extended to their children and grandchildren. Michael, Marvin, Carvin and Ronald performed in the Grammy-winning quartet The Winans while duo BeBe and CeCe Winans blazed their own path with songs such as “Addictive Love.

The family’s music legacy also helped establish the city as the gospel capital of the world.

“He was a person who loved Jesus through sickness and health,” said gospel singer Vickie Winans, the former wife of Pop Winans’ son Marvin. “To see him sick was the worst thing, but he kept on lifting up the name of Jesus. I loved him with all my heart.”

Chicago Tribune

In recent years, Mom and Pop Winans appeared regularly at Benny Hinn crusades and on The Trinity Broadcasting Network’s “Praise the Lord” program.

David Winans, a native of Detroit, began singing with a gospel quartet at age 18.

He later worked as a car salesman, taxi driver, custodian, barber and also was a preacher. After four of his children signed a recording contract, he was their manager for a while.