Steve Winwood: Valerie

Stephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood (born 12 May 1948) is an English international recording artist whose career spans more than 40 years. He is a singer-songwriter whose styles include soul (blue-eyed soul), R&B, rock, blues-rock, poprock and jazz. He is a multi-instrumentalist who plays organ, synthesizers, guitars, bass, drums and other stringed instruments. His trademark style is singing in a tenor voice and playing Hammond organ. In addition to his solo career, he was a member of the bands the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, Blind Faith and Go. He has won multiple Grammy Awards. In 2008, Rolling Stone ranked Winwood #33 in its 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.

In his teens, Winwood played Hammond B-3 organ and guitar in 'pick-up' bands that backed up well-known US blues performers. He formed Blind Faith in 1969 with Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker and Ric Grech. His first solo album was in 1977. In 1986, he topped the Billboard Hot 100 with "Higher Love", and with this earned the year's Grammy Award for Record of the Year and another for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. In 1994, Jim Capaldi and Winwood reunited Traffic for a new album, Far From Home.


- Lyrics:

Songwriters: Winwood, Steve; Jennings, Will;


So wild, standing there, with her hands in her hair
I can?t help remember just where she touched me
There?s still no face here in her place
So cool, she was like jazz on a summer?s day
Music, high and sweet, then she just blew away
Now she can?t be that warm with the wind in her arms

Valerie, call on me-call on me, valerie
Come and see me-i?m the same boy I used to be

Love songs fill the night, but they don?t tell it all
Not how lovers cry out just like they?re dying
Her cries hang there in time somewhere
Someday, some good wind may blow her back to me
Some night I may hear her like she used to be
No it can?t be that warm with the wind in her arms

So cool, she was like jazz on a summer?s day
Music, high and sweet, then she just blew away
Don?t tell me you?re warm with the wind in your arms