Steve Winwood will present an award to Sam Moore at the MOBO Awards tonight at the Royal Albert Hall. Steve recently performed on Moore's new album Overnight Sensational. For more on the MOBO awards, visit their website: www.mobo.com The BBC will air the awards show live on BBC3 at 9 p.m. It will be repeated on BBC1 on September 22nd.
Steve appears on the new Christina Aguilera album Back to Basics. The track "Makes Me Wanna Pray" features a sample of the Traffic classic "Glad" as well as steve re-playing the familiar piano/organ lines. For more details on the release, check out Aguilera's website. Clips are available on iTunes.
For the fall dates announced yesterday (on July 25th, 2006), Steve's touring band will consist of guitarist Jose Neto and percussionist Karl Vanden Bossche. Steve is also pleased to introduce two new bandmates: Paul Booth on sax/flute and Richard Bailey on drums.