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Īt eight years of age, Winwood first performed with his father and elder brother Muff in the Ron Atkinson band. During this time, he befriended future Fleetwood Mac member Christine McVie. He also attended the Birmingham and Midland Institute of Music to develop his skills as a pianist, but did not complete his course. The family moved from Handsworth to Atlantic Road Kingstanding Birmingham, where Winwood attended the Great Barr School, one of the first comprehensive schools. Steve Winwood began playing piano at the age of four while interested in swing and Dixieland jazz, and soon started playing drums and guitar.

His father Lawrence, a foundryman by trade, was a semi-professional musician, playing mainly the saxophone and clarinet. Winwood was born on in Handsworth, Birmingham. In 2008, Rolling Stone ranked Winwood number 33 on its list of 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. He has won two Grammy Awards and an Ivor Novello Award, and has been honored as BMI Icon. In 2004, Winwood was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Traffic. Although his hit singles ceased after the 1980s, he continued to release new albums up to 2008, when Nine Lives, his latest album, was released. He found the top of the Hot 100 again with ' Roll With It' (1988) from the album of the same name, with ' Holding On' also charting highly the same year. His 1986 album Back in the High Life marked his career zenith, with hit singles including ' Back in the High Life Again', ' The Finer Things', and the US Billboard Hot 100 number one hit ' Higher Love'.

During the 1980s, his solo career flourished and he had a number of hit singles, including ' While You See a Chance' (1980) from the album Arc of a Diver and ' Valerie' (1982) from Talking Back to the Night ('Valerie' became a hit when it was re-released with a remix from Winwood's 1987 compilation album Chronicles). Winwood achieved fame during the 1960s and 1970s as an integral member of three major bands: the Spencer Davis Group (1964–1967), Traffic (1967–19–1974) and Blind Faith (1969). Though primarily a guitarist, keyboard player, and vocalist prominent for his distinctive, soulful high tenor voice, Winwood plays other instruments proficiently, including drums, mandolin, bass, and saxophone. Stephen Lawrence Winwood (born ) is an English musician and songwriter whose genres include blue-eyed soul, rhythm and blues, blues rock, and pop rock.

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