Earth, Wind & Fire’s Philip Bailey Remembers Sheldon Reynolds: ‘A Truly Kind and Loving Individual’

Ex-Earth, Wind & & Fire and the Commodores band member Sheldon Reynolds is being kept in mind by previous partners as a great guitar player, vocalist and songwriter, and an even much better individual.

Reynolds passed away Tuesday (March 23) at the age of 63. “This news of Sheldon Reynolds shift is really unfortunate for everybody who understood and dealt with him. Sheldon vocally had Reese down,” composes Bailey in a social post, republished by the main EWF accounts.

” That’s what Maurice stated when he worked with Sheldon to share vocals and play guitar. Sheldon was an exceptional addition to the band, a terrific author and manufacturer, and a really kind and caring individual. He will be missed out on. Our acknowledgements to his household.”

Information surrounding his death have actually not been officially revealed.

Born Sept. 13, 1959 in Cincinnati, OH, Reynolds showed a present for the guitar at an early age. He went on to visit with vocalist Millie Jackson, and later on signed up with Sun, tape-recording 3 albums with the R&B act.

In 1983, he signed up with the Commodores. Throughout a four-year spell with the band, he carried out on the 1985 LP Nightshift and the list below year’s album release United

The great times kept coming when Reynolds signed up with EWF as lead guitar player and co-vocalist. He went on to use the soul band’s LPs Touch The World ( 1987 ), Heritage ( 1990 ), Centuries ( 1993) and In The Name of Love (1997 ). The midtempo Centuries struck “Sunday Early morning” made a Grammy Award election in the classification of finest R&B singing efficiency by a duo or group.

Thanks in part to Reynolds’ contributions, the band was inducted into the Rock-and-roll Hall of Popularity’s class of 2000, and made a star on the Hollywood Stroll of Popularity, granted in 1995.

Reynolds went on to work throughout solo tasks with Bailey and EWF’s late band leader Maurice White, who passed away in 2016. His passing carefully follows the death of previous EWF drummer Fred White in January, at the age of 67.

EWF and Lionel Richie, who fronted the Commodores up until 1983, prior to starting an effective solo profession, will set out on a joint trip from this August, called Sing A Song, All Night Long.