Legend Steve Winwood Was In 3 FAMOUS Bands Before Blowing Up As A Solo Artist! | Professor of Rock

The story of Steve Winwood From the Spencer Davis Group to Blind Faith to Traffic and Solo. From child prodigy, to a Hall of Fame rock n’ roll troubadour, Steve Winwood has shared his elite gift & passion with a lifetime of timeless R&B, Folk, Jazz, Progressive Rock, and pop classics with the world. , Steve Winwood truly brought us all a higher love of the arts because of his boundless gifts. This is the story of his career and his top 5 songs. including Higher Love and While You See a chance. One of the greatest voices ever.

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Reflect on a time you’ve been stunned with the talent of a precocious youngster that leaves you with the impression that you just witnessed future greatness. That was exactly how audiences felt when seeing the performance of a diminutive child prodigy in the late 50s and early 60s, named Stevie Winwood. Famed producer and founder of Island records Chris Blackwell said that hearing Winwood was like Ray Charles on helium.

Winwood was born into a very musical family in Handsworth, Birmingham, England.He began playing the piano at the age of 4- mimicking 30s and 40s dance ditties that his father fancied.
By the time he was 8 years old, Stevie Winwood was already playing with his Dad & his older brother, Muff, in the Ron Atkinson Band. At 12, he was smuggled into pubs to play the piano with Muff and his friends.

The\ piano had to be turned backwards on the stage, so that Stevie’s back was to the audience, to hide the fact that he was well under the legal age to be playing in a pub.

As a teenager in the Birmingham, England R&B scene, Winwood played a Hammond C3 Organ, and was called upon to back up such luminaries as John Lee Hooker, BB King, Chuck Berry, and Bo Diddley. Winwood modeled his magnificent singing style after the aforementioned Ray Charles- developing a high tenor vocal range. Stevie loved Ray’s phrasing and his ability to segue effortlessly from one genre to the next, a skill that Winwood perfected as a teenager.

The great Billy Joel recalls the moment he first saw Steve Winwood perform: “I thought he was the greatest singer- this skinny little English kid singing Ray Charles.”
Joel has also called Steve Winwood his “favorite piano player,” which is a huge compliment coming from the “Piano Man” himself.
Winwood made a welcome appearance on Billy Joel’s 1986 album the Bridge, playing the Hammond B3 on the song getting closer

Winwood joined the Spencer Davis Group at the age of 14.
Spencer Davis heard Stevie imitating legendary blues singer Jimmy Reed, and couldn’t believe what he was hearing.
After a 3 year run with the Spencer Davis Group, Winwood teamed with guitar hero Eric Clapton and the eccentric virtuoso Ginger Baker in ’67, for a one-off project called Eric Clapton and the Powerhouse. In the spring of ’67, Winwood met musicians Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood, and Dave Mason, at the Elbow Room, a club in Aston, Birmingham.