Profile
Steve Winwood
Singer-songwriter and Multi-instrumentalist
Male
Born
May 12, 1948
Age
65
Hometown
Handsworth, West ...
Genres
Psychedelic rock ...
Instruments
Fender Telecaster...
Performed With
Jim Capaldi + Eri...
Record Label
Island Records
Other Names
Winwood, Stephen ...
Stephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood is an award winning English songwriter and musician whose genres include blue-eyed soul, R&B, rock, blues-rock, pop-rock, and jazz. A multi-instrumentalist, he plays the electric organ, synthesizers, bass, drums, guitar… Read More
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Romance
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Eugenia CraftonMarried 1987
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Nicole WeirMarried 1978 - 1986
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Nicole Tacot WeirMarried 1977 - 1986
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András Simonyi: Waiting For Sugar ManHuffington Post - Mar 19, 2013
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Ten Years After Guitarist Dies At Age 68Huffington Post - Mar 07, 2013
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Rod Stewart, Steve Winwood Get Ready To Live The LifeUSA Today - Dec 03, 2012
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Tonight In Music: Pwrhaus, The Pharmacy, Steve Winwood & MoreThe Portland Mercury - Nov 14, 2012
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1948
Birth
Born on May 12, 1948.
TEENAGE
1965
17 Years Old
At the end of 1965 the group had their first number one single with "Keep On Running" and the money from this success allowed Winwood to buy his own Hammond B-3 organ.
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1967
19 Years Old
After Winwood left the Spencer Davis Group in April 1967, the quartet formed Traffic.
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TWENTIES
1973
25 Years Old
In 1973 Winwood recorded an album with Remi Kabaka, Aiye-Keta, for Antilles Records.
1976
28 Years Old
In 1976, Winwood provided vocals and keyboards on Go, a concept album by Japanese composer Stomu Yamashta.
1977
29 Years Old
Weariness with the grind of touring and recording prompted Winwood to leave Traffic and retire to sessioning for some years. Under pressure from Island Records, he resurfaced with his self-titled first solo album in 1977.
THIRTIES
1980
32 Years Old
This was followed by his 1980 hit Arc of a Diver (which included his first solo hit, "While You See a Chance") and Talking Back to the Night in 1982.
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1983
35 Years Old
He continued to do a number of sessions during this period, and in 1983 he co-produced and played on Jim Capaldi's top 40 hit "That's Love" and co-wrote the Will Powers top 20 hit "Kissing with Confidence".
1986
38 Years Old
In 1986, he enlisted the help of a coterie of stars to record Back in the High Life in the US, and the album was a hit.
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1987
39 Years Old
Winwood lives in a 300-year-old manor house in the Gloucestershire countryside with his wife Eugenia Crafton, a native of Trenton, Tennessee, whom he married in 1987.
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FORTIES
1994
46 Years Old
In 1994, Capaldi and Winwood reunited Traffic for a new album, Far From Home, and a tour, including a performance at Woodstock '94 Festival.
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1995
47 Years Old
In 1995 and 1996, Winwood released Reach for the Light for the animated film Balto.
1997
49 Years Old
In 1997, Winwood released a new album, Junction Seven, toured the US and sang with James Taylor at the VH-1 Honors.
FIFTIES
1998
50 Years Old
In 1998, Winwood joined Tito Puente, Arturo Sandoval, Ed Calle and other musicians to form the band "Latin Crossings" for a European tour, after which they split without making any recordings.
2000
52 Years Old
Winwood also appeared in the film Blues Brothers 2000, as a member of the Louisiana Gator Boys, appearing on stage with Isaac Hayes, Eric Clapton, and KoKo Taylor at the battle of the bands competition.
2003
55 Years Old
In 2003, Winwood released a new studio album, About Time on his new record label, Wincraft Music. 2004 saw his 1982 song "Valerie" used by Eric Prydz in a song called "Call on Me".
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In 2005, his Soundstage Performances DVD was released, featuring recent work from the About Time album along with prior hits including "Back in the High Life".
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2006
58 Years Old
Christina Aguilera features Winwood (using the piano and organ instrumentation from the "John Barleycorn" track, "Glad") on one of her songs from her 2006 record Back to Basics, called "Makes Me Wanna Pray".
2007
59 Years Old
In July 2007, Winwood performed with Eric Clapton in the latter's Crossroads Guitar Festival.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
On 19 February 2008 Winwood and Clapton released a collaborative EP through iTunes titled Dirty City.
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2012
64 Years Old
On 28 March 2012 Winwood was one of Roger Daltrey's special guest stars for "An Evening with Roger Daltrey and Friends" gig, in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust at the Royal Albert Hall.
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