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Article: Mario Winans scores big with R&B hit 'I Don't Wanna Know'.(Entertainment)(Interview)
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- Jet
- Article date:
- August 9, 2004
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When you hear the name Winans, you automatically think gospel. Well, listen again, because Mario Winans is not singing gospel, but straight-up R&B with a hip-hop twist.
Mario, the son of gospel singer Vickie Winans and the stepson of her former husband Marvin Winans of the famed Winans gospel family group, is making a name for himself in the R&B world.
He's riding the charts with the hit I Don't Wanna Know featuring Enya and P. Diddy, a song about a man dealing with his girlfriend's infidelity. The song is on his new CD Hurt No More, for which he produced and co-wrote all of the songs.
He explains why he sings R&B instead of gospel.
"I ...