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Founding member Johnnie Wilder was an American serviceman based in West Germany when he first began performing; upon his discharge from the US Army, he stayed in Germany. He sang in nightclubs and taverns with an assortment of bands while still enlisted.
Oct 31, 2017 · Keith Wilder, the singer of the influential Seventies funk outfit Heatwave, died Sunday at the age of 65. Les Spaine, the group’s manager, confirmed the singer’s death to Rolling Stone. Wilder...
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Nov 3, 2017 · The members of Heatwave (circa 1978), from l to r: Mario Mantese, Rod Temperton, Keith Wilder, Johnnie Wilder, Roy Carter, Eric Johns and Ernest Berger. In other words, Heatwave was to the late 1970s what Sly & the Family Stone was to the earlier part of that decade, except Heatwave made Sly Stone’s all-American mixed-race/mixed-gender group ...
Apr 14, 2015 · A stabbing, a car accident, paralysis, a coma: nothing could stop the Heatwave - the pre-eminent multi-ethnic band of the Funk, Boogie and Disco era.
Sep 20, 2023 · Co-Founder Of the mega selling recording group HEATWAVE, Keith Wilder discuss the success of HEATWAVE and Rod Tempterton. Rod Temperton was the keyboard play...
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Heatwave. Band, 1975-1984 DE. R&B/Soul. International disco-funk group, formed in Europe in mid-1970s. Heatwave was founded by Johnnie Wilder, an American serviceman based in West Germany, who stayed on there after his discharge.
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Heatwave is an international disco and funk band. The group was formed around 1975. Its most popular lineup was Americans Johnnie Wilder, Jr and Keith Wilder for vocals, Englishman Rod Temperton for the keyboards, Jamaican Eric Johns and Briton Roy Carter for guitar.
