Steve Winwood was among the many performers on the Coronation Live performance for England’s King Charles, held at Windsor Fortress on Sunday night time.
The hitmaker, identified for his solo success, in addition to his tenures within the band Visitors and the supergroup Blind Religion, delivered a rousing rendition of his traditional monitor “Increased Love.”
Backed by a choir and full symphony, Winwood carried out the 1986 chart-topper in entrance of a crowd of greater than 20,000 followers, with hundreds of thousands extra watching the occasion on tv and streaming across the globe. Different performers on the occasion included pop star Katy Perry, opera singer Andrea Bocelli, R&B legend Lionel Richie and (suprisingly) Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog of the Muppets.
Watch Winwood play “Increased Love” on the Coronation Live performance under.
The efficiency was simply Winwood’s second public gig in roughly 4 years. In 2022, he made a shock look throughout a competition set in Oxfordshire, England, taking part in three songs with the Staks Band.
Winwood’s final full live performance came about in 2019. He was scheduled to hit the highway with Steely Dan in 2020 – later pushed again to 2021 – nevertheless the pandemic put the kibosh on these plans. Winwood has not introduced any new concert events because the cancellation of his Steely Dan dates.
The English rocker – whose hometown of Handsworth is roughly 120 miles north of the situation the place the Coronation Live performance was held – has a connection to the royal household that goes past the current efficiency. In 2011, his daughter Mary-Clare Winwood married Ben Elliot, a multi-millionaire entrepreneur and nephew to the newly topped Queen Camilla.
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