Brandon Lake & CeCe Winans, I Know A Name | Music Lifts 🎶 🏋

In the 31st edition of Music Lifts (2025), we’re uplifted by Brandon Lake & CeCe Winans performing “I Know A Name.”

Welcome to Music Lifts 🎶 🏋, featuring songs that encourage, inspire, and uplift the spirit; songs that exude fortitude, positivity, and resolve, even in the face of adversity.  Featured songs aren’t genre-specific; songs may or may not be faith-based. The goal is for these songs to make you feel better – be LIFTED to new heights!  So, for the 31^st edition of Music Lifts 🎶 🏋 (2025), we highlight “I Know A Name” as performed by Brandon Lake and CeCe Winans.

From the start, “I Know A Name” is electrifying. A warm introduction using piano and rhythmic synths sets the tone. Brandon Lake sings first, continuing to characterize Jesus as a “name that can empty out a grave,” “saves,” and “Worthy of all praise.”  CeCe Winans sings the second verse, which features a fuller, more developed musical accompaniment.  Her King “holds the keys in his holy nail-scarred hands!” Lake harmonizes with Winans in the second half of the verse as they laud “Our resurrected Great I Am.” They sound amazing in the high-flying, powerful, rock-oriented chorus.  What do they do? Why, they name Him!

“I call you, Jesus

I call You, I call You, Healer

Risen and Reigning in power

Something comes out of the grave

Every time I call You, Jesus

I call You, I call You, Savior

Worthy of glory forever

Something comes out of the grave

Every time I call Your Name.”

The chorus is nothing short of epic.  It’s not the only epic moment of “I Know A Name.” The refrain is also incredibly powerful, where Lake and Winans proclaim, “Chains break, dry bones wake / Every time I call  Your name / The gates of Hell shake / Every time I call  Your name.” Post-refrain, things come down about it, only to gradually build back up to a fever pitch. Don’t you know, “Dead things come alive in the name of Jesus?” Eventually, the dynamic chorus returns in all its glory, with the outro, where once again, dead things come alive, capping things off. “I Know A Name” is a must-hear, powerful, contemporary Christian song.