Steve Winwood
Johnny Black, MOJO, May 1997
IT WAS NOT UNTIL 1993, 30 years after he first heard Ray Charles sing, that Steve Winwood met his lifelong idol. Winwood happened to be in Barcelona, where Brother Ray was playing a gig.
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