CeCe Peniston

Songwriter: James Wirrick Richard Wolf

So many ways that love can tear away your faith
So many times that it deserts me
And I will bless the day When I have found my place
Until then this life just hurts me
But I know in the end
I will be turned away no more
Yes I know any day now
I will be received
Is there a chance that I will live to see the day
When promises will stay unbroken
So many fires rage deep inside my soul
So many feelings left unspoken
But I know in the end
I will be turned away no more
Yes I know any day now
I will be
And it seems oh so far away
When I want to touch my soul's salvation
And I know there's a state of grace
And you can reach it if you hold on
I will be received
But I know in the end
I will be turned away no more
Yes I know any day now
I will be received

CeCe Peniston is an R&B and dance singer/songwriter known for her international ‘90s pop hit “Finally.” The Phoenix, Arizona native got her start doing demos and background vocals for rapper Overweight Pooch. Though she didn’t have a lot of time to work on her debut album Finally, it still yielded multiple hit singles like “Keep On Walkin,” “We Got a Love Thang,” and the sentimental soul ballad “Inside That I Cried” that landed in the Top 20 Billboard charts in Pop, Dance and/or R&B categories.

For her 1994 follow-up, Thought Ya Knew, CeCe forged into more R&B territory with the Soulshock & Karlin-produced lead single “I’m In The Mood”. The album also yielded the hit singles “I’m Not Over You” and “Hit By Love”.

Label shake-ups affected the success of her third album I’m Movin' On, but the singles “Movin' On” and her remake of Jocelyn Brown’s dance classic “Somebody Else’s Guy” still made impact on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Thought ’Ya Knew (1994)

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