Bill Withers

Bill Withers (born on July 4th, 1938 with Slab Fork in Virginia-Western) is a Auteur-compositeur-interprète states-unien which was active end of the year 1960 in the middle of the years 1980. It is one of the most famous representatives of music Soul the most taken again and one of.

Biography

Bill Withers loses his/her father at the 13 years age. At 17 years, it engages in the United States Navy, spends nine years there, then settles with Los Angeles in 1967. It there works during the day in a factory Ford and plays during the night in Jook joint S. When it made its beginnings in the world of the music with Ain' T No Sunshine it kept its work at Ford convinced that the show business was unforeseeable and that he was only one beginner compared with other black artists such as The Temptations or Sammy Davis Jr.

Bill Withers recorded 9 albums between 1971 and 1985. Its first success was with the label Sussex Records in 1971 with its hit Ain' T No Sunshine , on the album Just As I Am . Its second album Still Bill was also a business success. It contains the individual hit " Lean one Me ". Its album live Bill Withers, Live At Carnegie Hall , encensé by criticisms, goes back to 1972. One can quote among his most popular titles Use Me , Lovely Day , Just the Two off Custom , which he interpreted with the saxophonist of Jazz Grover Washington, Jr..

The June 9th, 2005, Withers was introduced into the Songwriters Hall off Famed with David Porter, Isaac Hayes, Steve Cropper, Robert B. Sherman, Richard Mr. Sherman and John Fogerty.

Recoveries and samples

Its songs were very often included by many singers and rappeurs, and in a plethora of publicities and films.

  • Lean one Me

- In 1976 Lean one was taken again to Me by the group of glam-rock'n'roll Mud and rose with British 7 place des charts .
- New Club in 1986 made in the same way and saved in Withers its third Grammy as a type-setter.
- the piece appears in an episode of Simpsons.
This song also is very often included in the American churches thanks to its spiritual words, preaching the unit and the love. Song which besides was inspired by the religious anthems gospels that Withers listened in Slab Fork in its youth.

  • Ain' T No Sunshine

- Paul McCartney in 1991 in: Unplugged (The Official Bootleg).

- DMX in the piece of the same name in 1999 for the B.O of Exit Wounds.
- the singer country Kenny Rogers always in 1999
- Over the Rhine made of it a recovery in its round 2004 then recorded it in their album Changes Like .
- the piece appears in the film Love at first sight in Notting Hill
- And well of others such Michael Jackson, Sting, Horace andy, Otis Redding…

  • Uses to me

- Taken again by Grace Jones, Hootie and the Blowfish, Mick Jagger/Lenny Kravitz, Better Than Ezra, Fiona Apple, My Brightest Diamond. Fiona Apple also taken again Kissing My Love on its round of 1998.
- In film of 2004 Anchorman: The Legend off Ron Burgundy

  • Who Is He (And What Is He to You)?

- Cool L J takes again the front in the hit of 1997, Phenomenon .
- Me' Shell Ndegeocello in 1996 on its album Peace Beyond Passion .

  • Lovely Day

In Lovely Daze (DJ Jazzy Jeff)
Twista sample the piece in individual the Sunshine with Anthony Hamilton.
T.W.D.Y and Too Short samplent " Lovely Day" , in Playa' S Holiday .

  • Just the Two off Custom

- By Will Smith in 1997.

  • Grandma' S Hands

- Blackstreet in their first hit No Diggity samplé this piece which was in the beginning a poem.

  • Turned pink

- Pink Kanye West in .

  • has Song has City"

- In live , Eskimo Joe always starts has Song has City with Kav singing Ain' T No Sunshine in prelude.

  • I can' T Write left handed

- Conceited Servant boy Slim sample for the piece Demons in featuring with Macy Gray in 2001

Quotations

" You' Re too much, for one man, goal not enough for two". ( Who Is He (And What Is He to You)? )

Discography

  • 1971 - Just Ace I Am
  • 1972 - Still Bill
  • 1973 - Live At Carnegie Hall
  • 1974 - 'Justments
  • 1975 - Making Music, Making Friends
  • 1976 - Naked & Warm
  • 1977 - Menagerie
  • 1978 - 'End Coils
  • 1985 - Watching You, Watching Me
  • 1993 - Still Bill
  • 1997 - Ain' T No Sunshine
  • 1999 - Signal Bill

Bonds

  • Official site
  • Biography of Soultracks.com

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