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Get the Earth Wind & Fire T Shirt . Earth Wind & Fire (abbreviated in initials as EWF or EW&F) is an American band that has spanned the musical genres of R&B, soul, funk, jazz, disco, pop, rock, Latin, and Afro pop.[1] They have been described as one of the most innovative and commercially successful bands of all time.[2][3][4] Rolling Stone called them “innovative, precise yet sensual, calculated yet galvanizing” and declared that the band “changed the sound of black pop”.
Get the Earth Wind & Fire T Shirt . The band was founded in Chicago by Maurice White in 1970, having grown out of a previous band known as the Salty Peppers.[6][7] Other prominent members of EWF have included Verdine White, Philip Bailey, Ralph Johnson, Larry Dunn, Al McKay, Roland Bautista, Sheldon Reynolds and Andrew Woolfolk. In 1969, Maurice White, a former session drummer for Chess Records and former member of the Ramsey Lewis Trio, joined two friends in Chicago, Wade Flemons and Don Whitehead, as a songwriting team composing songs and commercials in the Chicago area. The three friends eventually got a recording contract with Capitol Records. Calling themselves “The Salty Peppers” they went on to have a marginal hit single in the Midwestern area entitled “La La Time”. The Salty Peppers’ second single, “Uh Huh Yeah”, did not fare as well. With this being so Maurice moved on from Chicago to Los Angeles. He then added to the band singer Sherry Scott[16] and percussionist Yackov Ben Israel, both from Chicago, and then asked his younger brother Verdine how he would feel about heading out to the West Coast. On June 6, 1970, Verdine left Chicago to join the band as their new bassist. Maurice began shopping demo tapes of the band, featuring Donny Hathaway, around to different record labels and the band was thus signed to Warner Bros. Records.
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