Steve Winwood, born Stephen Lawrence Winwood, is an English singer and songwriter. He was very young part of the Rhythm & Blues scene in Birmingham, to the point of not being able to play in front of the public because he was too young to work at night. He joined the Spencer Davis Group from 1964 to 1967, then founded the Traffic group, then Blind Faith in 1969 with a certain… Eric Clapton, before flying off on his own from 1977. Year when he released his first solo album "Steve Winwood". Album without real success. First successes, first arriving with the singles "While you see a chance" in 1980, "Night train" in 1981 and "Valérie" in 1982. But it was the album "Back in the high life" in 1986 which remained as his greatest success with 3 million copies sold, in particular thanks to the flagship title "Higher Love".
Other albums and other Singles will be released later but they will never know the level of success reached by those who will have preceded them unfortunately... To discover or rediscover. Discography (among others ...):
• Hold on 1977
• Time is running out 1977
• While you see a chance 1980
• Arc of a diver 1981
• Night train 1981
• Spanish dancer 1981
• Still in the game 1982
• Valérie 1982
• Talking back to the night 1982
• Your silence is your song 1983
• Higher love 1986
• Freedom overspill 1986
• Back in the high life again 1987
• The finer things 1987
• Roll with it 1988
• Don't you know what the night can do ? 1988
• Holding on 1988
• Hearts on fire 1989
• One and only man 1990
• I will be here 1991
• Reach for the light 1995
• Spy in the house of love 1997
• Gotta get back to my baby 1997
• Domino morning 2003
• Horizon 2003
• Fly 2008
• Dirty city 2008
• We're all looking 2008
Clips :
1977 ... the first steps. The voice is already there. Style, on the other hand, has nothing to do with what it will be a few years later...
1977... the potential is real in any case and it only remains for this young singer to raise his level of play for a while...
1980 ... the excellent title which will reveal it and offer it its first planetary mega hit. A title that launches for good his solo career. This time, the style is well and truly posed ...
1981 ... a continuation of certain quality which shows the full potential of the artist. And there is potential, it's clear !
1981 ... a "Night Train" which takes us to first-rate melodic regions. New hit !
1981 ... without hurrying, calmly, calmly ... In Ballad mode, an area he also masters at first sight ...
1982...back in force in this new year thanks to this pretty duo which works relatively well. A year 1982 which will benefit him to the highest degree !
1982...new top hit. Thanks WHO ? Thanks Valerie ! Needless to say, the girls did pretty well for him, especially during this year of 1982 in particular...
1982...a top-notch 1982 with a 3rd title which once again hit the mark. Definitely, when it wants, it wants !
1983...here he is in soundtrack mode for the film "They call it an accident". A film that will go completely unnoticed just like its title...
1986 ... the title of the consecration. ENORMISSIME title which will remain as its biggest hit and makes him enter definitively in the musical legend of the 80s...
1986... impossible for this title to compete with the previous steamroller but it will do more than resist, that's clear...
1987...a decidedly exceptional mid-decade for him. Everything smiles on him as if by magic and the mega hits follow one another at a speed that is impressive to say the least...
1987... this title will not experience the same level of success as its predecessor but will still pull through with flying colors. All is well in the best of all worlds...
1988...the great adventure continues with this much more rock title, a register that is not necessarily the style that suits him best...
1988 ... rocko-rock parenthesis already ended, we set off again in a musical register which until then had succeeded rather well...
1988...a 3rd hit which demonstrates once again that inspiration is always at the top. Rather a good sign for the rest of the events...
1989...a single-title 1989 year, something that hasn't happened to him for some time. After seeing the number of hits obtained recently, he has the right to breathe a minimum...
1990...change of decade and new hit. Still in the race the guy and determined to go as far as possible...
1991...a new gentle parenthesis with this particularly inspired title. We're not going to lie to each other, the best years are now behind him, but what he continues to offer largely holds up...
1995...we will lose sight of him for nearly 4 years and here he is back in soundtrack mode for the film 'Balto'. BO which will only know a level of success for the least limited...
1997 ... his last notorious hit. This time, it is indeed the end of a magnificent adventure which will have lasted almost 20 years ...
1997...a magnificent adventure at the highest level because the adventure is not over far from it. It's just the level of success that's not really going to be the same as before...
2003...here he is attacking this new decade with the firm intention of not letting go. As long as he enjoys doing what he does, why throw in the towel...
2003...in any case it is the fans of the first hour who rejoice at the highest point as soon as a new opus comes out. And us with them necessarily...
2008 ... here he is again almost 5 years later, still determined to believe in it until the end. He still has things to offer and especially to sing at first sight...
2008...you still have to remember that he started his solo career in 1977, which is almost 30 years ago ! Not to mention the previous adventures...
2008...and even if he doesn't really stick to the latest musical developments of the moment, what he continues to offer is far from being ridiculous, that's for sure...
2021... it's in grouped mode that we will find him 13 years later on this cover of the cult Procol Harum title dating from 1967. The copy will not surpass the original but associate Santana with Winwood on this one can only give a most interesting revisited version !
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