Maurice White
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Vive La France
- Strength and Dignity
- My Life with Earth, Wind & Fire
- Bituminous mixes and flexible pavements
- Earth tales
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Other
- Gender
- Not applicable
- Origin
- [Worldwide]
Discography
- Гагаку (Японская Старинная Музыка)1974
- [unknown]1975
- A White Christmas1991
- Jude On A Ragga Tip (U.K. Mix) / How Does It Feel! (The New Order Remix)1992
- Bagpipe Marches and Music of Scotland: With Brass and Accordion Accompaniment1994
- Runaway Train1994
- Best of Ballroom: Tango1995
- Floorbangers1995
- More Floorbangers1995
- The Smurfs1995
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 11,640
- Total plays
- 75,965
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Maurice White (born December 19, 1941; died February 3, 2016) was an American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, arranger and bandleader. He was the founder of the band Earth, Wind & Fire and the older brother of current and former Earth, Wind & Fire members Verdine White and Fred White respectively. White served as the band's main songwriter and record producer, and was co-lead singer (along with Phillip Bailey). White has won seven Grammys, and was nominated for Grammys 21 times in
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
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- RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 25,516x
- The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project
· 1996 · cited 18,867x
- A Heteroskedasticity-Consistent Covariance Matrix Estimator and a Direct Test for Heteroskedasticity
· 1980 · cited 18,368x
- Multilayer feedforward networks are universal approximators
· 1989 · cited 18,293x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1941-12-19 ) December 19, 1941, Memphis, Tennessee , U.S.
- Origin
- Chicago, Illinois , U.S.
- Died
- February 4, 2016 (2016-02-04) (aged 74), Los Angeles, California , U.S.
- Genres
- Soul funk R&B jazz
- Occupations
- Singer musician songwriter record producer
- Instruments
- Vocals drums kalimba
- Years active
- 1962–2016
- Labels
- Columbia Kalimba Music
- Website
- mauricewhite .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Maurice
- Family name
- White
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Memphis
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- lyricist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- music
- Genre
- soul
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Columbia Records
- Official website
- www.mauricewhite.com
- Image
- Maurice White 75.jpg
- Voice type
- tenor
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- Commons category
- Maurice White
- date of birth
- 1941-12-19
- medical condition
- Parkinson's disease
- manner of death
- natural causes
- date of death
- 2016-02-04
- member of
- Earth, Wind & Fire
- cause of death
- Parkinson's disease
- start of work period
- 1962-00-00
- end of work period
- 2014-00-00
- ethnic group
- African Americans
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Encyclopedic overview
Maurice White (December 19, 1941 – February 4, 2016) was an American musician, best known as the founder, leader, main songwriter and chief producer of the band Earth, Wind & Fire, also serving as the band's co-lead singer with Philip Bailey.
Described as a "visionary" by Vibe and a "mastermind" by Variety, White was nominated for a total of 22 Grammys, of which he won seven. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Vocal Group Hall of Fame as a member of Earth, Wind & Fire, and was also inducted individually into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. White also worked with musical acts such as Deniece Williams, Cher, The Emotions, Barbra Streisand, Ramsey Lewis, and Neil Diamond.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Maurice White” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.