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That is the voice of singer and songwriter BeBe Winans. His birth name is Benjamin but he is known to all as "BeBe." BeBe comes from a large Christian family. His parents, Delores and David Winans, raised seven sons and three daughters. Winans says music, God and family were the foundation of his upbringing. "Growing up in the family I grew up in, evolved around music, it evolved around God and it evolved around family. When we went to church, it was family and it is the main foundation, I think, I've had since I've left home, since I've left Detroit, Michigan." At the age of 17, BeBe and his 15-year old sister Priscilla, called CeCe, left home for Pineville, North Carolina. They began their professional music careers as background singers on the popular Christian television show "PTL Club." PTL stood for Praise the Lord. Winans says the hosts of the show, Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, treated him and his sister as family. While there, the siblings recorded their first album, "Lord Lift Us Up," for PTL Records. In 1987, the Winans left "PTL Club." That same year they released their first album, "BeBe & CeCe Winans." The mainstream album gave them their first R&B hit, "I.O.U. Me." The brother and sister recorded five albums together. In 1995, they decided to seek individual careers.
As a lyricist, BeBe Winans says he always knew he could express his spirituality in any song -- be it gospel or contemporary. "I think what separated me in my writing with others is that I felt that I could talk about what God meant to me in every area of my life... in my relationships, in my family and in my work, in everything, in play, in every aspect of my life. So I was moved by songs that wasn't in the gospel category all my life. So, ‘Coming Back Home,' and ‘Love Said Not So' and ‘Lost Without You' and ‘In The Meantime,' you know, all those songs is reflective of my life." BeBe Winans has several solo albums and six Grammy awards. He also has written and produced hit songs for others. And he is an actor and author.
His latest professional undertaking is a musical about his life. Winans and family friend and director Charles Randolph-Wright together wrote "Born for This, The BeBe Winans Story." The artist says it all began with a phone conversation with the singer-songwriter Roberta Flack. "The musical started with a phone call. And that was a phone call with Roberta Flack. And we were talking about everything other than the musical, and right in the middle of the conversation she detoured and said, ‘BeBe, when are you going to write that musical about you and your family?" It's an American musical, it's a story, it's a film after that, and four days later, I'm at a hotel in Montreal. I walk in and I open up my laptop and it was like a faucet came on. And right then and there, I wrote the first draft of what now is 'Born for This." " BeBe says "Born for This" explores his and his sister's personal and musical journey. "It talks about coming of age of two young African Americans being thrust from a childhood up until that point of predominantly a black situation and then thrust into a world that was predominantly a white situation. So we endured racism, we endured a lot of things, but just a culture shock, you know. Different worlds, you know. It talks about finding myself. What's true about God and what's not true. What's philosophy and what's laws and what's reality. So, it's a journey in how music played a very important part in that journey." The actors who play BeBe and CeCe Winans in "Born for This" know their subjects pretty well. That is because they are Winans themselves. BeBe is happy about the family connection. "It's been an absolute joy to see my niece Deborah Joy and my nephew Juan, who are brother and sister, playing a brother and sister who happens to be their uncle and aunt. It's hard to put in words how I feel when I see them knowing, just like my parents knew, there was some talent that they saw in us, so they nurtured that talent. I saw that talent in Juan and Joy when they were knee high. Now to see them, especially during rehearsals, it was funny to see how they learned a lot more about their aunt and uncle and what we with through when we were their age and even younger. And so, every time I see them on stage, I am just tickled, if I can say that. The musical celebrated its world premiere on April 23 at The Alliance Theater in Atlanta, Georgia. Now, it has made its way to Washington, D.C. for performances at the Arena Stage.
重点解析
1.stand for 代表
In his second year, he stood for election and became the first African-American President of the Law Review.
在哈佛的第二年，他参加选举并一举当选为《哈》社历史上第一位非洲裔主席。
2.other than除了
The doctor advised about many things other than medicine.
这位医生除了开药以外，还对很多事情提出忠告。
3.every aspect of 方方面面
No, this is about collaboration with your customers in every aspect of your business.
这是关于与你的客户在业务的每个方面进行协作。
4.treat 对待
Ten years ago, the most gracious hosts in China provided dinner-party guests with imported vintage reds, a rare treat as the country began to open up to Western-style extravagance.
十年前，中国多数慷慨的主人会给参加晚宴的宾客提供进口的红葡萄酒，在该国开始向西式铺张开放之时，这是难得的款待。
5.start with 从…开始
You can start with one of them and add the others as you have time.
你现在就可以开始只用其中之一，如果你有时间的话，还可以加上其它的。
6.in the middle of 在…中间
Here it is: Being President with this Congress is like standing in the middle of a cemetery.
我想到一个笑话：作为总统，站在这样的国会面前，就像站在一块墓地的中央。
参考译文
这是歌手兼词曲作者贝比·怀南斯的声音。他的本名是本杰明，但是人们都叫他“贝比”。贝比来自一个基督教大家庭。他的父母德洛丽丝和大卫·怀南斯养育了七个儿子和三个女儿。怀南斯说，音乐、上帝和家庭是他成长的基础。“在我成长的家庭中长大，我伴随着音乐而成长，也伴随着上帝而成长，也伴随着家庭而成长。我觉得当我们去教堂的时候就像到了家里，这是我生活的根基，自从我离开家、离开密歇根州的底特律的时候，我就有了这种想法。17岁那年，贝比和他15岁的妹妹茜茜（本名普里西拉)离开家，来到北卡罗来纳州的派恩维尔。他们在基督教电视节目“PTL俱乐部”中担任背景音乐歌手，开始了他们的职业音乐生涯。PTL代表赞美上帝。怀南斯说，节目主持人吉姆和塔米·菲·贝克把他和他的妹妹当作一家人。在那里，兄妹俩为PTL唱片公司录制了他们的第一张专辑“Lord Lift Us Up”。1987年，怀南斯兄妹离开了“PTL俱乐部”。同年，他们发行了第一张专辑“BeBe&CeCe Winans”。这张主流专辑为他们带来了他们的第一张节奏布鲁斯热卖专辑“i.o.u Me”。这对兄妹共录制了五张专辑。1995年，他们决定各自单飞发展。
作为词作者，贝比·怀南斯说他总是知道他可以在任何歌曲中表达他的灵性——无论是福音歌曲还是当代歌曲。“我觉得，我的创作与别人的不同之处在于，我可以在生活的每一个方面谈论上帝对我的意义……关于我的关系，我的家庭，我的工作，任何事情，比赛，关于我生活的方方面面。所以在我一生中，那些除福音歌曲以外的歌曲也能打动我。所以你知道，像“归来”、“爱情说不是这样”、“没有你的迷失”和“与此同时”这些歌曲都反映了我的生活。”贝比·怀南斯发行了几张个人专辑，并获得过六次格莱美奖。他还为其他人创作和制作热门歌曲。而且他也是一个演员和作家。
他最近的作品是一部关于他生活的音乐剧。怀南斯和他的朋友兼导演查尔斯·伦道夫·赖特共同创作了“为此而生，贝比·怀南斯的故事”。这位艺术家表示，这一切都始于他与创作型歌手罗伯塔·弗拉克的一通电话。这个音乐剧是从一通电话开始的。那是罗伯塔·弗莱克打来的电话。而且当时我们谈的都是音乐剧以外的东西，就在聊天中，她突然说道，贝比，你打算什么时候创作一部关于你和你家人的音乐剧?这是一部美国音乐剧，是一个故事，是一部电影。四天后，我出现在蒙特利尔的一家旅馆里。我走进去，打开电脑，我当时真的是文思泉涌。就在那时，我写下了“为这个而生”的初稿。贝比说“为这个而生”探索了他和他妹妹的个人和音乐之旅。音乐剧讲述了两个受压迫的年轻非洲裔美国人不断成长，直到来到一个黑人占主导地位的时代，然后又进入了一个白人占主导地位的时代。所以我们忍受了种族歧视，我们忍受了很多事情，但你知道这只是文化冲击。你知道我们处于不同的世界。它讨论的是寻找自我的故事。它是关于上帝的真实和不真实的故事，它是关于什么是哲学、什么是法律、什么是现实的故事。所以，这是一段音乐如何在这段旅程中扮演重要角色的旅程。在“为这个而生”中扮演贝比和茜茜的演员们非常了解他们的主题。这是因为他们自己就是怀南斯家人。贝比对这种家庭成员之间的联系感到高兴。“看到我的侄女黛博拉·乔伊和侄子胡安真是太高兴了，他们本身就是兄妹，然后扮演的兄妹恰好是他们的叔叔和婶婶。当我看到他们是懂我们的时候，当时的那种感觉是很难用语言来表达的，就像是我们的父母懂我们一样，他们看到了我们拥有的某些才华，所以他们也培养了那种才华。当胡安和乔伊仅长到我们膝盖那么高的时候，我就在他们身上看到了这种才华。现在去看他们，尤其是在排练的时候，他们在试着更多地去了解自己的叔叔和婶婶，我们则会回想自己在他们这个年龄甚至更小的时候的经历，这是很有趣的事情。所以，每次我在舞台上看到他们，我都会像挠痒一样的开心，如果我可以这么说的话。这部音乐剧于4月23日在乔治亚州亚特兰大的联盟剧院举行了全球首演。现在，这部音乐剧已经开始在华盛顿中心舞台剧场演出。
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