Ex-Earth, Wind & Fireplace and the Commodores band member Sheldon Reynolds is being remembered by former collaborators as a nice guitarist, singer and songwriter, and a good higher individual.
Reynolds died Tuesday (March 23) on the age of 63. “This information of Sheldon Reynolds transition may be very unhappy for all of us who knew and labored with him. Sheldon vocally had Reese down,” writes Earth, Wind & Fireplace’s Philip Bailey in a social publish, republished by the official EWF accounts.
“That’s what Maurice stated when he employed Sheldon to share vocals and play guitar. Sheldon was a superb addition to the band, an amazing author and producer, and a genuinely form and loving individual. He will likely be missed. Our condolences to his household.”
Particulars surrounding his demise haven’t been formally introduced.
Born Sept. 13, 1959 in Cincinnati, OH, Reynolds displayed a present for the guitar at an early age. He went on to tour with singer Millie Jackson, and later joined Solar, recording three albums with the R&B act.
In 1983, he joined the Commodores. Throughout a four-year spell with the band, he carried out on the 1985 LP Nightshift and the next 12 months’s album launch United.
The nice instances saved coming when Reynolds joined EWF as lead guitarist and co-vocalist. He went on to play on the soul band’s LPs Contact The World (1987), Heritage (1990), Millennium (1993) and In The Title of Love (1997). The midtempo Millennium hit “Sunday Morning” earned a Grammy Award nomination within the class of greatest R&B vocal efficiency by a duo or group.
Thanks partially to Reynolds’ contributions, the band was inducted into the Rock And Roll Corridor of Fame’s class of 2000, and earned a star on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame, awarded in 1995.
Reynolds went on to work on solo initiatives with Bailey and EWF’s late band chief Maurice White, who died in 2016. His passing carefully follows the demise of former EWF drummer Fred White in January, on the age of 67.
EWF and Lionel Richie, who fronted the Commodores till 1983, earlier than embarking on a profitable solo profession, will set out on a joint tour from this August, dubbed Sing A Tune, All Night time Lengthy.
