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[1] [2] A musical crossover band, War became known for its eclectic blend of funk, [3] soul, [4] jazz, and rock, [5] an amalgam of the different sounds and styles the band members heard living in the racially diverse ghettos of Los Angeles. Their album The World Is a Ghetto was Billboard's best-selling album of 1973. [6]
Members of the band War, its earlier incarnation as Nightshift, and its later incarnation as the Lowrider Band. Pages in category "War (American band) members" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
Leroy "Lonnie" Jordan (born November 21, 1948, in San Diego) [1] [2] is an American musician and songwriter. He is a founding member of the American funk band War. [3] Jordan had a number of roles over the years, acting as vocalist and playing guitar, piano, synthesizer, and percussion.
Howard E. Scott (born March 15, 1946) is an American funk/rock guitarist and founding member of the successful 1970s funk band War. Biography Scott ...
The Lowrider Band consists of three of the four surviving original core group members of the multi-platinum selling band War: Howard E. Scott, Lee Oskar, and Harold Brown. These members lost the right in federal court to use and tour under the name "War" in the mid-1990s to Far Out Productions (producer and manager Jerry Goldstein ).
Harold Ray Brown (born March 17, 1946) is a founding member of War, an American funk band in the 1970s to 2000s. [1] Harold had a number of roles over the years, acting as drummer, percussionist, vocalist, and bandleader. Brown is the oldest of six children, and the only one in his family to pursue music.
The version of the band that performed alongside Burdon in 2008 at the Royal Albert Hall was not the original band but a reformed one led by the only original member, keyboardist Lonnie Jordan. This was due to a court injunction. The remaining surviving members of WAR perform as "The LowRider Band". [citation needed]
Charles William Miller (June 2, 1939 – June 4, 1980) [1] was an American musician best known as the saxophonist and flutist for the multicultural California funk band War. Notably, Miller provided lead vocals as well as sax on the band's Billboard R&B #1 hit "Low Rider" (1975).