The Winans Family in Popular Culture
On December 24, 1990 the Winans family appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Family members on the show included Ronald, Carvin, Marvin, and Michael (as "The Winans"), BeBe & CeCe (as a duo), Vickie, Mom and Pop, Daniel, David, Angie, and Debbie.
Hip-hop artists A Tribe Called Quest mention the family in their track "Buggin Out" from the album The Low End Theory; Phife raps "I float like gravity/ never had a cavity / got more rhymes than the Winans got family".
In the Disney Channel's animated television show The Proud Family TV series, the baby twins were named "BeBe & CeCe."
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