{"id":36123,"date":"2024-05-28T11:45:09","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T15:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=36123"},"modified":"2024-05-28T11:45:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T15:45:09","slug":"cece-winans-american-idol-performance-of-goodness-of-god-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2024\/05\/cece-winans-american-idol-performance-of-goodness-of-god-goes-viral.html","title":{"rendered":"CeCe Winans&#8217; &#8216;American Idol&#8217; Performance of &#8216;Goodness of God Goes Viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_36129\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36129\" style=\"width: 891px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2024\/05\/cece-winans-american-idol-credit-american-idol-youtube.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36129\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2024\/05\/cece-winans-american-idol-credit-american-idol-youtube.png\" alt=\"cece winans\" width=\"891\" height=\"562\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36129\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Idol\/YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAmerican Idol\u201d recently crowned a new champion, but for many viewers, the highlight happened earlier in the show, when CeCe Winans joined contestant Roman Collins for a powerful rendition of \u201cGoodness of God.\u201d On Instagram, the song garnered more comments, likes, and shares than any other post from the night, including contestant\/singer duets including Hootie and the Blowfish, New Kids on the Block, Bishop Briggs and Wynonna Judd. Judge Katy Perry was moved to tears.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoodness of God\u201d is a song that was originally included on a 2019 Bethel Music album and then covered by Winans, whose 2021 live rendition entered the Top 10 of Billboard\u2019s Hot Christian Songs chart. It was included on her\u00a0\u201cBelieve for It\u201d\u00a0album. Worship leader Brian Tabor wrote on X, formerly Twitter, \u201cCeCe Winans just took the American Idol finale audience to church!\u201d Sports journalist Brad Crawford wrote, \u201cHard to believe it was allowed on network TV, but CeCe Winans just blew everyone off the stage on Idol with \u2018Goodness of God.\u2019 Had Katy Perry, former worship singer turned mainstream, in tears. Just unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F4SlVg9rPSM?si=ILqcKtX0joP8E7GV\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Reporter Jacob Davis wrote, \u201c@cecewinans and Roman Collins proclaimed the gospel to millions of homes across the world at the American Idol finale Sunday night. Incredible performance with teary-eyed folks all over the room. Chills!\u201d Shannon Bream of Fox News also was moved. \u201cThat @cecewinans duet with Roman Collins &#8212; I am not okay,\u201d Bream\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShannonBream\/status\/1792382997515129180\">wrote<\/a>.\u00a0Winans told K-Love earlier this year she added\u00a0\u201cGoodness of God\u201d to her 2021 album because many people in the African American community had not heard it. In fact, Winans was one of those until a member of the worship team at her church introduced her to it.\u00a0She told K-Love, \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of people who haven\u2019t heard it, who look like me. That song showed me how sometimes our cultures are so far apart. A song can really be big in the CCM world, and in the Black church, or in a different denomination, they haven\u2019t heard it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said of the popular song, \u201cThis is my testimony.\u201d Abi Carter won\u00a0American Idol\u00a0Season 22. Roman Collins, like Winans, a Christian, recently released his debut album,\u00a0Same Gospel New Sound. He finished in the Top 12 of\u00a0American Idol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAmerican Idol\u201d recently crowned a new champion, but for many viewers, the highlight happened earlier in the show, when CeCe Winans joined contestant Roman Collins for a powerful rendition of \u201cGoodness of God.\u201d On Instagram, the song garnered more comments, likes, and shares than any other post from the night, including contestant\/singer duets including Hootie&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":36129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[642,6420],"class_list":["post-36123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-television","tag-american-idol","tag-cece-winans"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin 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