Steve Winwood

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Stephen Lawrence Winwood (born 12 May 1948) is an English singer and guitarist whose genres include progressive rock, blue-eyed soul, rhythm and blues, blues rock, pop rock, and jazz.

Winwood, who is primarily a vocalist and keyboardist, also plays a variety of other instruments; on several of his solo albums, he has performed all instrumentation, including drums, mandolin, guitars, bass, and saxophones. Winwood was a vital part of The Spencer Davis Company, Traffic, Blind Faith, and Go.

He had a fruitful solo career, with hits including "While You See a Chance," "Back in the High Life Again," and two US Billboard Hot 100 number one hits, "Mighter Love" and "Roll with It" charting 20 years after the start of his musical career.

In 2005, Winwood was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Traffic, thanks to his "enduring influence on generations of musicians."

Rolling Stone ranked Winwood No. 63 in 2008. In its 100 Greatest Singers of All Time, 33 of them appear in its 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.

Winwood has received two Grammy Awards.

He was nominated twice for the British Male Artist Award in 1988 and 1989: 1988 and 1989.

The British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors named Ivor Novello for his outstanding Song Collection in 2011.

Early life

Winwood was born in Handsworth, Birmingham, on May 12, 1948. Lawrence, his father, a journeyman by trade, was primarily a semi-professional performer who played mainly the saxophone and clarinet. When interested in swing and Dixieland jazz, the 4-year-old began playing piano and then went on to play drums and guitar. He was also a choirboy at St. John's Church of England, Perry Barr. The family migrated from Handsworth to Kingstanding (Atlantic Road) Birmingham, where Winwood attended the Great Barr School, one of the country's first comprehensive schools. He studied at the Birmingham and Midland Institute of Music to develop his talents as a pianist but did not finish his program.

He appeared in the Ron Atkinson Band with his father and elder brother Muff at eight years old. Muff later remembered that the piano had to be turned with its back to the audience to try to conceal him since Steve began playing regularly in licensed bars and clubs because he was so obviously underage.

Personal life

Winwood was married to Nicole Weir (d. 2005), who appeared as background vocals in some of his early solo performances. Both of the two young people were married at the Cheltenham Register Office.

Winwood's primary residence is a 300-year-old manor house in the Cotswolds, England, where he also has a recording studio. Winwood and his partner, Eugenia Crafton, a Trenton, Tennessee native who married in 1987, also have a home in Nashville, Tennessee. They have four children. Both were patrons of the Cheltenham Festivals of music and literature between 2007 and 2015.

Mary Clare, Winwood's eldest daughter, was born in 2011 and later became the Conservative Party's Co-Chairman. Both the couple have two sons. Lilly Winwood's daughter is a singer; she was on television with him in a Hershey commercial performing a duet of his song "Higher Love" by a winwood girl. On her father's 2018 Greatest Hits Live tour, she opened her show and appeared as backup on several songs.

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Career

Winwood, who was still a student at Great Barr School, was a member of the Birmingham blues rock band, playing the Hammond C-3 organ and guitar, assassinating blues and rock legends such as Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, B.B. Bo Diddley and King Chuck Berry on their United Kingdom tours, the usual for US singers at this time was to travel solo and be backed by pick-up bands. Winwood was living on Atlantic Road in Great Barr, near the Birmingham music halls, where he appeared. After Ray Charles, Winwood modeled his singing.

Winwood (then identified as "Stevie" Winwood) and his older brother Muff, who later achieved fame as a record producer, became partners with the Spencer Davis Group after Davis saw them performing as the Muffy Wood Jazz Band at a Birmingham pub called the Golden Eagle. The Eagle made their debut at the Eagle and then had a Monday-night residency there. Winwood's unique high-tenor singing voice and vocal style earned comparisons to Ray Charles.

They signed their first recording deal with Island Records in 1964. "He was really the cornerstone of Island Records," producer and founder Chris Blackwell later said of Winwood. He's a natural performer, and since he was on Island, all the other talent wanted to be with Island." The group's first album, a single, was released ten days after Winwood's 16th birthday. With "Keep on Running," the group had their first number one single at the end of 1965; the money from this success enabled Winwood to buy his own Hammond organ. Before leaving the Spencer Davis Group in 1967, Winwood co-wrote and produced the chart-topping hits "Gimme Some Lovin" and "I'm a Man."

Winwood joined forces with guitarist Eric Clapton as part of the one-off group Eric Clapton and the Powerhouse. Songs were released for the Elektra brand, but only three tracks were included on the 1966 compilation album, What's Shakin'.

When they jammed together at The Elbow Room, a Birmingham club, Winwood met drummer Jim Capaldi, guitarist Dave Mason, and multi-instrumentalist Chris Wood. The Spencer Davis Group formed Traffic in April 1967 after Winwood left the Spencer Davis Group in April 1967. Soon after, they rented a cottage near Aston Tirrold, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), to write and rehearse new music. They were able to escape the city and discover their music as a result.

Winwood and Capaldi formed a songwriting partnership early in Traffic's history, with Winwood producing music to match Capaldi's lyrics. The majority of Traffic's songs, including "Paper Sun" and "The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys," was based on this relationship, and the band outlived the company, with several songs for Winwood and Capaldi's solo albums. Winwood has performed the majority of their lead vocals, keyboard instruments, and guitars over the band's history. He also performed bass and percussion, up to and including the recording sessions for their fourth album. Winwood was taken by Jimi Hendrix to play organ on the Electric Ladyland album, despite being trapped in Traffic.

In 1969, Winwood formed the Blind Faith club, which included Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, and Ric Grech. Clapton's greater involvement in Blind Faith's opening act Delaney & Friends left the band at the tour's end, but it was short-lived. Ginger Baker's Air Force was formed by Baker, Winwood, and Grech. The lineup featured 3/4 of Blind Faith (without Clapton, who was replaced by Denny Laine), half of Traffic (Winwood and Chris Wood, plus Capaldi and Mason), and Graham Bond, as well as Phil Seamen, Harold McNair, John Blood, and Graham Bond.

This initiative also came to an end. Winwood stepped into the studio to begin working on a new solo album dubbed Mad Shadows. Winwood did eventually call in Wood and Capaldi to assist with session duties, which caused Traffic's comeback album John Barleycorn Must Die in 1970.

In 1972, Winwood performed Captain Walker in the highly successful orchestral version of The Who's Tommy. Remi Kabaka and Abdul Lasisi Amao's album as Third World, Aiye-Keta, appeared on June 1973. The album was re-released and identified as being solely by the band members' names later, after the reggae group Third World had existed. Winwood performed vocals and keyboards on Go, a Japanese composer Stomu Yamashta's concept album. Winwood appeared on Fania All Stars' Delicate and Jumpy album in 1976 and appeared as a guest with the band in their first UK appearance, a sold-out show at the Lyceum Theatre in London.

Winwood had to leave Traffic and go back to sessioning for many years due to exhaustion from touring and recording. He resurfaced with his self-titled first solo album in 1977, under pressure from Island Records. This was followed by his 1980 hit Arc of a Diver (which included his first solo hit, "If You Have a Chance") and Talking Back to the Night in 1982.

Both albums were recorded at Winwood's house in Gloucestershire, with him on all instruments. During this time, he continued to attend sessions, and in 1983, he co-produced and co-wrote the Will Powers top 20 hit "Kissing with Confidence" and appeared on Jim Capaldi's top 40 hit "That's Love" and co-wrote the Will Powers top 20 hit "Kissing with Confidence."

In 1986, he moved to New York. Back in the High Life in the United States was a huge success, and the singer employed a crew of actors to record Back in the High Life. He topped the Billboard Hot 100 with "More Love" and received two Grammy Awards: Year's Best Male Pop Vocal Performance and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.

Winwood embarked on a lengthy tour of North America in support of the album.

Both these albums were released on Island Records. Winwood, on the other hand, migrated to Virgin Records and published Roll with It and Refugees of the Heart during his commercial fame. The album Roll with It and the title track debuted at No. 1. In 1988, the first one on the US album and singles charts debuted. Far From Home, Virgin's second album, was officially credited to Traffic, but virtually all of the instruments were played by Winwood. Despite not having a major hit, it fell out of the top 40 in both the United Kingdom and the United States.

Junction Seven's last Virgin album remained in the top 40.

Wincraft Music through Columbia Records released Nine Lives, a new studio album released on April 29, 2008. The album debuted at No. 1. His highest US debut ever ranks 12 on the Billboard 200 album chart, his highest US debut ever.

In 2008, he was granted an honorary doctorate from Berklee College of Music to add to his honorary doctorate from Aston University, Birmingham. Winwood was one of Roger Daltrey's most popular guests on "An Evening with Roger Daltrey and Friends" at the Royal Albert Hall on March 28, 2012.

In 2013, Winwood toured North America with Rod Stewart as part of the "Live the Life" tour. Winwood and The Heartbreakers toured North America in 2014.

Steely Dan's announcement of a North American summer tour in January 2020 was the start of a new one in January 2020.

Winwood appeared in "A Tribute to Ginger Baker," which took place at Eventim Apollo Hammersmith in London on February 17, 2020. Ron Wood, Roger Waters, and Eric Clapton were among the other participants. Ginger Baker, his ex band member in Blind Faith who had died the previous year, was the subject of the performance.

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