Edgar Winter
Edgar Winter
Edgar Holland Winteris an American rock and blues musician. He is known for being a multi-instrumentalist — keyboardist, guitarist, saxophonist and percussionist — as well as a singer. His success peaked in the 1970s with his band, The Edgar Winter Group, and their popular songs "Frankenstein" and "Free Ride"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth28 December 1946
CityBeaumont, TX
CountryUnited States of America
We started out when I was 6 years old. We played ukuleles and sang Everly Brothers songs.
I love music more just in and of itself. I love harmony and rhythm.
My favorite songs are those that are most deeply personal and emotional for me, and they include the love songs that I've written for Monique.
I've always had a great love of music since childhood. It changes every day... every time you write, it's a new experience. It's a self expression.
I've not met Elvis or Jim Morrison, but Jimi Hendrix, Johnny and I used to jam at a club in New York called The Scene where the house band was the Young Rascals, so I did get to meet Jimi.
She has been a great supporter throughout all the years we've been married. She's really showed me what love is.
I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.
Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.
I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with more of a tendency toward jazz.
I started out playing ukulele when I was 5 or 6 years old.
But when I played Woodstock, I'll never forget that moment looking out over the hundreds of thousands of people, the sea of humanity, seeing all those people united in such a unique way. It just touched me in a way that I'll never forget.
The most profound, tangible influence in my life has been my wife, Monique. I don't know that I would even be alive were it not for her, and I certainly would not be the person that I am today.