1. Maurice White worked with musical acts such as Deniece Williams, Cher, The Emotions, Barbra Streisand, Ramsey Lewis, and Neil Diamond.
35 Facts About Maurice White
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Maurice White was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on December 19,1941.
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Maurice White grew up in South Memphis, where he lived with his grandmother in the Foote Homes Projects and was a childhood friend of Booker T Jones and David Porter.
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Maurice White made frequent trips to Chicago to visit his mother, Edna, and stepfather, Verdine Adams, who was a doctor and occasional saxophonist.
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Maurice White later played the drums on 1966's The Movie Album along with 1967's Dancing in the Street and Goin' Latin.
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Maurice White performed on the Trio's 1968 LPs Up Pops Ramsey Lewis, Mother Nature's Son and Maiden Voyage.
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Maurice White was inducted, with the band, into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Vocal Group Hall of Fame, The Songwriters Hall of Fame and The NAACP Image Awards Hall of Fame.
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Maurice White immersed a sense of eclecticism to the band's recordings, conceptualizing their vibrant stage portrayals while crafting the vocal interplay between his tenor and Philip Bailey's falsetto.
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Onwards Maurice White retained executive control of Earth, Wind and Fire and remained active in the music business.
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Maurice White was co-producing with Charles Stepney, Deniece Williams' debut album This Is Niecy when in May of 1976, Stepney died unexpectedly during the album's recording.
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Maurice White went on to produce Williams' sophomore album Songbird, released in 1977.
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Maurice White then released 1979's When Love Comes Calling on ARC Records, Maurice's subsidiary label on Columbia.
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Maurice White featured as a guest artist on the LP, which peaked at No 27 on the US Billboard Top Soul Albums chart.
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Maurice White produced the girl group's 1979 LP Come into Our World which was released on his own Columbia imprint ARC Records.
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Maurice White went on to be Grammy nominated in the category of Producer of the Year Non-Classical.
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Maurice White composed a song called Tahiti Hut with Eumir Deodato on his 1978 studio album Love Island.
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Maurice White then appeared as a guest artist on Ramsey Lewis' 1980 LP Routes and gospel artist Walter Hawkins' 1980 Grammy nominated album The Hawkins Family.
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Maurice White wrote a song called Only In Chicago with Barry Manilow on his 1980 album Barry.
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Maurice White later produced Jennifer Holliday's Grammy nominated 1983 LP Feel My Soul.
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Maurice White went on to co-produce Barbra Streisand on her 1984 album Emotion.
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Maurice White appeared as a guest artist on Lee Ritenour's Grammy nominated 1986 album Earth Run.
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Maurice White later co-produced with Lenny Maurice White Pieces of a Dream's 1986 album Joyride.
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Maurice White produced on Neil Diamond's 1986 album Headed for the Future.
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Maurice White worked as a producer with Atlantic Starr on the band's 1987 LP All in the Name of Love.
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Maurice White then appeared a guest artist on Cher's 1987 self-titled LP.
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Maurice White produced El DeBarge on his 1992 LP In The Storm.
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Maurice White collaborated with the Japanese band Dreams Come True on two songs.
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Maurice White appeared as a guest artist on Marcus Miller's 1993 album The Sun Don't Lie.
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Maurice White went on to produce the debut album of jazz group Urban Knights released in 1995 by GRP Records.
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Maurice White appeared as a guest artist on Jazz saxophonist Kirk Whalum's 2003 album Into My Soul.
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Maurice White wrote and produced songs for the feature films Coming to America, A Low Down Dirty Shame, and Gatchaman OVA.
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Maurice White composed music for the television series Life Is Wild.
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Maurice White won an ASCAP Award as a composer of "That's The Way Of The World", with it being a theme song of the sitcom Hearts Afire.
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Maurice White was a married father of three children: one daughter, Hemeya and two sons, Kahbran and Eden.
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Maurice White owned two homes in California, one in Carmel Valley and the other a four-level condominium in Los Angeles.