List of awards and nominations received by Earth, Wind, & Fire

List of Earth, Wind, & Fire awards

Earth, Wind & Fire performing at the opening ceremony of the 2008 US Open on August 25th, 2008.
Award	Won
Grammy Awards	6
American Music Awards	4
Berklee College of Music	Doctor of Music
Columbia College Chicago	Doctor of Music
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame	Inductee

This page includes the achievements, nominations and awards of the band Earth, Wind, & Fire.

Earth, Wind & Fire is an American R&B band formed in Chicago, Illinois, in 1969 and led by founder Maurice White. Also known as EWF or the Elements of the Universe, the band has won six Grammy Awards and four American Music Awards. They have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Vocal Group Hall of Fame.^[1][2] They have sold over 90 million albums worldwide earning them a place on the list of best-selling music artists where they are ranked as the seventh best selling American band of all time.^[3][4] Rolling Stone Magazine has described Earth, Wind & Fire as "innovative, precise yet sensual, calculated yet galvanizing" and has also declared that the band "changed the sound of black pop".^[5] Earth, Wind & Fire were also ranked at number 60 on VH1's list of the 100 Greatest Artists of Rock & Roll.^[6]

The band's music contains elements of African music, Latin music, funk, disco, soul, jazz, pop, rock, and other genres. The band is known for the dynamic sound of their horn section and the interplay between the contrasting vocals of Philip Bailey's falsetto and Maurice White's tenor.^[7] The kalimba (African thumb piano) is played on all of the band's albums.^[8]

American Music Awards

The American Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony created by Dick Clark in 1973. Earth, Wind, & Fire has won four awards from twelve nominations.^[9]

Grammy Awards

The Grammy Awards are awarded annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States. Earth, Wind, & Fire has received 6 awards from 17 nominations.^[9]

Other awards

• First black performers to receive Madison Square Garden's Gold Ticket Award for selling more than 100,000 tickets.

• First black performers to receive the Columbia Records Crystal Globe Award for selling more than five million albums in foreign markets.

• In 1994 Earth, Wind and Fire were inducted into the NAACP Hall Of Fame.

• On September 14, 1995, EWF was honored with a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.^[10]

• Earth, Wind & Fire was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 6, 2000.

• On Monday, June 17, 2002 Earth Wind & Fire received the ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Heritage Award.

• On Tuesday, June 25, 2002 Earth, Wind & Fire received the BET Lifetime Achievement Award.

• In 2003 Earth, Wind & Fire was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame.

• Earth, Wind & Fire were inducted into Hollywood's RockWalk on Monday, July 7, 2003

• On Tuesday June 8, 2004 Earth, Wind & Fire received the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Signature Governor's Award by the Los Angeles chapter of the Academy.

• In 2004 the album "That's the Way of the World" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame ^[11]

• In 2007 "Shining Star" was inducted into the Grammy Hall Of Fame

• On May 10, 2008 Maurice White and Philip Bailey received honorary doctorates from the Berklee College of Music.^[12]

• On May 18, 2008 Maurice White, Ralph Johnson, Philip Bailey and Verdine White each received an honorary degree from the Arts and

Media College at Columbia College Chicago during the college's 2008 commencement exercises.^[13]

• In 2009 Earth, Wind & Fire won the Entertainer Award at the 2009 TV Land Awards and the Daniel L. Stephenson Humanitarian Award for Lifetime Achievement in Music at the 15th Temecula Valley International Film Festival.

• In 2010 Earth, Wind & Fire's Maurice White, Phillip Bailey, Verdine White, Al McKay and Larry Dunn were inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame.^[14]

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