September 23, 2024
Questlove will be certain everybody remembers the twenty first day of September with the Earth, Wind & Fireplace documentary.
Questlove has an Earth, Wind & Fireplace documentary on the way in which, and it solely made sense to announce it on the twenty first day of September.
Following 2001’s Shining Stars: The Official Story of Earth, Wind & Fireplace, Questlove has an official documentary that can inform the success story of the legendary soul group, Deadline reviews. The movie will discover the band’s legacy, cultural influence, and physique of labor with an unique look into its visible, audio, and written supplies archives.
The Roots drummer, who gained an Oscar for his Summer season of Soul documentary, reportedly obtained the complete assist of Maurice White’s property and the band. White served because the founder, chief, fundamental songwriter, and chief producer of Earth, Wind & Fireplace, in addition to the band’s co-lead singer with Philip Bailey.
“Having been baptized within the Afrocentric pleasure river of this powerhouse unit, I’ve discovered about them, I’ve discovered about us & extra importantly, I’ve discovered and rediscovered myself within the course of,” Questlove mentioned in a press release. “I’m so excited to be a part of the method of preserving their optimistic however very susceptible and actual story of Soul, Self & Battle.”
All through their five-decade profession, Earth, Wind & Fireplace offered greater than 90 million data, launched 11 consecutive gold or platinum albums, and gained six Grammy Awards. Maurice White shaped the band in Chicago in 1969. Distinguished members of the group embrace Verdine White, Philip Bailey, Ralph Johnson, Larry Dunn, Al McKay, Roland Bautista, Robert Brookins, Sonny Emory, Freddie Ravel, Ronnie Legal guidelines, Sheldon Reynolds, and Andrew Woolfolk, who handed away in 2022 at age 71.
Further accolades embrace 4 American Music Awards, induction into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame, the Vocal Group Corridor of Fame, the NAACP Picture Award Corridor of Fame, Hollywood’s Rockwalk, and a Hollywood Stroll of Fame star. The band obtained an ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Heritage Award, a BET Lifetime Achievement Award, a Soul Practice Legend Award, a NARAS Signature Governor’s Award, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2012 Congressional Horizon Award, and the Kennedy Middle Honors in 2019.
Rolling Stone credited Earth, Wind & Fireplace for being the band that “modified the sound of Black pop,” whereas VH1 described them as “one of many best bands” of all time. The group’s solely inactive years have been throughout a hiatus from 1984 – 1987. The band’s founder, Maurice White, handed away in 2016 at age
Questlove is producing the movie with Maurice White’s son, KB White of Damaged Halo Leisure, and Arron Saxe of Kinfolk Administration + Media. Different producers of the movie, made in affiliation with Sony Music Imaginative and prescient, embrace RadicalMedia, Questlove and Black Thought’s Two One 5 Leisure, and financing and gross sales from Fifth Season. Zarah Zohlman and Shawn Gee of Two One 5 Leisure will function govt producers alongside Jon Kamen of RadicalMedia, Cheo Hodari Coker, and Amos Newman.
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