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STEVE WINWOOD PERFORMANCE LIGHTS UP NSCA 2004 EXPOJAM
Press Release
2004-06-15

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Recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Steve Winwood was the highlight of this year's NSCA Systems Integration Expo®, performing at the opening night ExpoJam! event. The performance was sponsored by Yamaha Corporation of America and NSCA, and took place on March 18 at the Las Vegas Hilton.

A longtime Yamaha artist, Winwood's career has spanned decades and touched many musical genres, defying any single definition. At age fifteen, he was already playing in the blues clubs of Birmingham, England with John Lee Hooker and Memphis Slim when he joined the R&B combo The Spencer Davis Group, which spawned a series of unforgettable radio standards, including "Gimme Some Lovin'" and "I'm a Man."

"It was really an honor to have Steve Winwood kickoff this year's NSCA Expo," states Larry Italia, general manager, Yamaha Commercial Audio. "Steve's music is really timeless, and we were happy to have him perform."

Winwood went on to collaborate with Blind Faith and later, Traffic. His highly successful solo albums include Arc of a Diver, Roll With It and Back in the High Life, which earned the coveted GRAMMY® for Record of the Year. He continues to blur the musical boundaries with his latest effort, About Time.

Winwood crew: L.T. Walter Jaquiss (FOH), James Towler (MOE), Denzil Daniels (Drum Tech), Kumar Kamalagharan (Tour and Production Manager), JT Poe (Band Tech). Photo credit: John Staley Photo. Yamaha and A1 Entertainment Systems of Las Vegas supplied sound reinforcement gear for the concert, including SLS house loudspeaker and monitor systems, a new Yamaha PM5000 mixing console for front of house and a DM2000 digital mixer for monitors.

For more information, write Yamaha Corporation of America, Commercial Audio Systems Division, P.O. Box 6600, Buena Park, CA 90622; telephone (714) 522-9011; e-mail infostation@yamaha.com; or visit www.yamaha.com/proaudio.