
Steve Winwood (born 12 May 1948) was an English singer-songwriter and musician who enjoyed a successful musical career from the 1970s to the 1980s. Born in Birmingham in 1948, he was raised in the suburb of Great Barr and joined the Ron Atkinson Band in 1952 at the age of 8 and The Spencer Davis Group in 1962 at the age of 14. He later became a member of Traffic, Blind Faith, and Go, and embarked on a successful solo career with hits such as "While You See a Chance", "Valerie", "Back in the High Life Again", "Higher Love", and "Roll with It". Winwood was a "rock conservative" who was a staunch Conservative Party supporter; he argued against rock and roll's anti-establishment image by arguing that it could not have become a worldwide success without big record companies, and his daughter married Conservative Co-Chairman Ben Elliot in 2011.