{"id":175561,"date":"2023-01-03T02:28:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T02:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/earth-wind-and-fire-drummer-dead-at-67-rolling-stone\/"},"modified":"2023-01-03T02:28:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T02:28:56","slug":"earth-wind-and-fire-drummer-dead-at-67-rolling-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/earth-wind-and-fire-drummer-dead-at-67-rolling-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth, Wind and Fire Drummer Dead at 67 \u2013 Rolling Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cHe joins our brothers Maurice, Monte, and Ronald in heaven and is now drumming with the angels,\u201d Verdine White wrote in a tribute<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n\tFred White, drummer<\/span> for the groundbreaking funk outfit Earth, Wind and Fire \u2014 and half-brother of lead singer Maurice and brother of bassist Verdine White \u2014 has died, his family announced on Jan. 1. White was 67 years old.<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cHe joins our brothers Maurice, Monte, and Ronald in heaven and is now drumming with the angels,\u201d Verdine White wrote in a tribute shared on Instagram. (He did not disclose a cause of death; Maurice White died after a battle with Parkinson’s Disease in 2016.)<\/p>\n

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\tA child prodigy who began drumming at age nine before going on to earn his first gold record at the age of 16 for his work on Donny Hathaway’s live<\/em> \u2014 which made Rolling Stone<\/em>‘s list of 50 greatest live albums of all time \u2014 White joined his brothers’ band in 1974 just before the group shot to stardom on the success of its sixth studio album, That’s the Way of the World<\/em>. Both the album and the single, \u201cShining Star,\u201d hit number 1 on the Billboard charts.<\/p>\n

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\tEarth, Wind and Fire went on to sell more than 90 million records, cementing its status as one of the best-selling bands of all time. Beloved by critics as well as fans, the band was nominated for 17 Grammys, and won six. <\/p>\n

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\tMore than two dozen members have cycled in and out of Earth, Wind and Fire since its founding in 1969, but White was part of the nine-man lineup inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000.<\/p>\n

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\tWhile Maurice \u2014 Earth, Wind and Fire’s vocalist, co-founder, and producer \u2014 began his career as a drummer, it was Fred playing percussion on the Earth Wind and Fire’s biggest hits, like \u201cSeptember,\u201d \u201cBoogie Wonderland,\u201d and \u201c Shining Star.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n