Kevin Grace visits the grave of Philippe Wynne of The Spinners

Kevin Grace visits the grave of Philippe Wynne of The Spinners

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  • @FredaDaniels-md6vx
    @FredaDaniels-md6vx Жыл бұрын

    What a performer I loved him and still listen The Spinners to this day.

  • @Louie914
    @Louie914 Жыл бұрын

    A Legend! The way he improvised is still uncomparable to this day.

  • @johnpeebles5602
    @johnpeebles56022 жыл бұрын

    Phillipe , was from Cincinnati, Ohio. He moved to Detroit in the sixties. He was a legendary singer, one of the best ever! ✌🏽

  • @cle-chi

    @cle-chi

    11 ай бұрын

    O H I O

  • @monicathorpe9828
    @monicathorpe9828 Жыл бұрын

    ONE OF THE BEST!!!!

  • @florencecritchlow372
    @florencecritchlow3727 ай бұрын

    Phillipe.... legendary...I just love him....his voice is to die for..❤

  • @florencecritchlow372
    @florencecritchlow3727 ай бұрын

    The group performance is it top of the line... with everlasting music..just love them

  • @carlt9265
    @carlt9265 Жыл бұрын

    Loved him cool as they come great singer rip

  • @gazeinward4824
    @gazeinward48242 жыл бұрын

    I LOVE PHILIPPE WYNNE!!! 🥹 Lord Knows his voice took me through so many things ❤️❤️❤️🌹❤️❤️❤️

  • @timothyhines9800
    @timothyhines98002 жыл бұрын

    When I hear brother Phil voice especially when song Sadie that song reminds of mother God bless brother pillepa Wynn your singing always brings me joy RIP your music 🎶 are truly ❤ miss my brother brother.

  • @gazeinward4824
    @gazeinward48242 жыл бұрын

    I GOTTA COMMENT AGAIN!! THE WAY HE DANCES AND SINGS!!! He knew he had it!!! Lord Philippe ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ I JUST LOVE HIM!!

  • @Steve-mp7by
    @Steve-mp7by8 ай бұрын

    I'm a huge fan. When he passed that was a sad day

  • @KEYBEATZ
    @KEYBEATZ2 жыл бұрын

    Phillipe Wynne was definitely their best lead singer(not say to the others which could all sing lead were slouches) he just had that special and unique voice and his voice had soul and that special ummmmmffff! I think if he stayed with the group and waited a little longer he would've really made it solo

  • @dianethurston8036
    @dianethurston80362 жыл бұрын

    The man could sang we thank you for your music sir., riotous is very much miss

  • @peterwrohr1388
    @peterwrohr13882 жыл бұрын

    Yes, I know he was from Cincinnati. Here are the facts of Phil’s involvement with the Afro Kings: Phil first came to Düsseldorf, where apparently his sister was a singer at the Düsseldorf Opera House. I had met the Afro Kings and George Hutchinson a couple years earlier, when I worked as a bar pianist at the Ambassador Hotel in Monrova (Liberia, West Africa) I loved their American Soul Music and African Highlife and as a result, we we were all travelling to Germany on an iron ore freighter a few month later. Germans loved the AFRO KINGS and all went well. While touring through Germany, this stranger, Mr “Phil Soul Walker” stepped on stage one day and sang his heart out with us. We already had an amazing frontman who delivered an amazing James Brown inspired dance and vocal show. However we did love Mr Phil Soul Walker and he joined the band and toured with us for some 18 month, mainly through US army clubs. Well, it was a very strange situation! Here I was, in the middle of Germany in NCO clus, blowing my King Curtis inspired sax to a crowd of some 100 Afro American G.I.s and I loved it when the guys in the front seats were calling out to me “Blow your horn, brother!” Yes, it was strange, here in the middle of Germany, my Austrian trumpet player Hubert Grillberger, me and a couple of german waitresses where the only white people in this club in the middle of Germany. (segregation? definitely entertainment segregation, because of different musical taste?yes!) And our Phil Soul Walker keeps on running across the stage in front of us with a special long microphone lead (no cordless microphones in those days :-) We even met Lou Rawles who also toured the US clubs. After about 18 month, I was offered a very lucrative 6 month contract in Salou, a beach resort near Tarragona, Spain. Phil didn’t want to come a long to Spain and went back to the US. We toured Spain and recorded a single in Barcelona until the Afro Kings dissolved in 1970. I joined the Spanish group “Máquina!” A few years later, I lived back in Munich, I saw a concert poster one day. “My god this is Phil!”. I bought tickets and there he was walking across the stage in front of the Detroit Spinners. I got a big hug when I went behind the stage and we had a great time together at the hotel bar. Never saw him again until decades later I saw him on KZread. That was after I “had been moved” to Australia by my home sick Australian wife in 1980. R.I.P Phil. It looks like George Hutchinson and me are the only survivors. We are still musically active. George is singer of a Blues Band in Tarragona, Spain and I am the bandleader of BIG BAND OBSESSION. R.I.P Phillippe Wynn

  • @NnamdiAzikiwe_keyamsha

    @NnamdiAzikiwe_keyamsha

    Жыл бұрын

    Fascinating story Peter. I visualized some of what you were describing. It plays like a movie. The Afro Kings sounds like a legend in itself. For instance how did you end up in Liberia?

  • @peterwrohr1388

    @peterwrohr1388

    Жыл бұрын

    Dear Nmindi, I only saw your comment now. Its Easter and Im busy with my half a dozen grandchildren. I will answer later

  • @briangoddard3511
    @briangoddard35112 жыл бұрын

    Sorely missed one of my generations great soul singers , when he went solo end of mighty love live , without band or rest of group , was something to see , amazing

  • @georgettecouvall2037
    @georgettecouvall2037 Жыл бұрын

    Don't forget to vote for the Spinners DAILY starting now through Friday, April 28th so that they get inducted into the 2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

  • @thetruth1213
    @thetruth12134 ай бұрын

    Very great performer, God bless his soul

  • @perrywilliams512
    @perrywilliams512 Жыл бұрын

    Fabulous voice.

  • @carmelitacarter3913
    @carmelitacarter39132 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for another great video. I loved Sadie ❣️❣️❣️❣️.

  • @kinglord7707
    @kinglord77073 ай бұрын

    It's sad that all the Spinners have passed away.Thank God Henry Fambrough see his group go to Rock N Roll hall of Fame

  • @Chet73
    @Chet73 Жыл бұрын

    So thankful someone paid for a headstone for him. When I found out he was buried in an unmarked grave I was shocked and saddened by it.

  • @richardwilliams6365

    @richardwilliams6365

    Жыл бұрын

    I went looking for his gravesite and unfortunately a headstone had not yet been placed there

  • @pedroraulfonceaolivares9063
    @pedroraulfonceaolivares90632 жыл бұрын

    Maestro del Soul Phillipe Wynne

  • @gpinkard
    @gpinkard2 жыл бұрын

    My family and I loved the Spinners!

  • @gdorlexa
    @gdorlexa2 жыл бұрын

    loved the Spinners!

  • @johnpeebles5602
    @johnpeebles56022 жыл бұрын

    He was from Cincinnati,Ohio. He later moved to Detroit. He had family in the Detroit area.

  • @rodjoe9086
    @rodjoe9086 Жыл бұрын

    Dope

  • @NnamdiAzikiwe_keyamsha
    @NnamdiAzikiwe_keyamsha Жыл бұрын

    Finger poppin feel good music... Hand me down my walkin cane Hand me down my hat Hurry now and don't be late cus we aint got time to chat you and me we goin out to catch the latest sounds guarenteed to blow your mind so high you wont come down.

  • @BlackAnvil47
    @BlackAnvil472 жыл бұрын

    Please visit Donald Goines Detroit Memorial Park East Warren, Macomb County, Michigan, USA PLOT Section 38 Plot 2014...... Spinners Safe awesome song

  • @kevingrace945

    @kevingrace945

    2 жыл бұрын

    I did please stop asking me. Will post either tomorrow or later today. I also stopped by house where he was killed. No house and Donald doesn't have headstone

  • @kevingrace945

    @kevingrace945

    2 жыл бұрын

    so did you see the Donald Goines video?

  • @Steve-mp7by

    @Steve-mp7by

    8 ай бұрын

    Who?

  • @SJDunham
    @SJDunham2 жыл бұрын

    This is literally right by my house, love living in Warren! RIP to one of the greats🙏🏼

  • @jaylene.turner6524
    @jaylene.turner6524 Жыл бұрын

    Two of his sons passed away. One died drowning to save someone else in 2001, and the other was shot during a drive-by in 1999.

  • @kevingrace945

    @kevingrace945

    Жыл бұрын

    well it was some family member that approved the headstone with the fan. The grounds keeper told me it was his son that approved it.

  • @jaylene.turner6524

    @jaylene.turner6524

    Жыл бұрын

    @@kevingrace945 Oh ok. That’s great. I was just saying that his family had more tragedy after his tragic passing.

  • @justanadams9430
    @justanadams94304 ай бұрын

    Phillippe Wynne had 3 sons. 2 has died. One died from an Drive-by shooting and the other one died from drowning trying to save someone's life. And the third one was his first born from an previous relationship.

  • @kevingrace945

    @kevingrace945

    4 ай бұрын

    thanks for clarifying that since the one person questioned how his son helped a fan with the headstone purchase

  • @SleepyBrownEyes1
    @SleepyBrownEyes12 жыл бұрын

    Am I reading the message correctly? The headstone was purchased in 2021 by a fan and one of his sons?? His sons both died many years ago: Alvarez by drive-by shooting, and Emmanuel by drowning. Did he have a third son that we didn’t know about?

  • @kevingrace945

    @kevingrace945

    2 жыл бұрын

    this is the info the grounds keeper told me

  • @frankied6440

    @frankied6440

    Жыл бұрын

    @@kevingrace945 Findagrave does not have this photo of his grave. Thank you for this video. My favorite Soul/R&B group along with the Four Tops.

  • @timechi2961
    @timechi29612 жыл бұрын

    ❤️

  • @weotalks2810
    @weotalks2810 Жыл бұрын

    He DIED ON STAGE..BOTH SONS DEAD..ONLY 6 PEOPLE SHOWED UP TO HIS FUNERAL...SADE was a MIGHTY LOVE..RIP

  • @kevingrace945

    @kevingrace945

    Жыл бұрын

    well the caretaker told me a fan contacted a son and they both purchased a headstone about 2 yrs ago for Phillippe. Who told you that both sons passed away?!

  • @weotalks2810

    @weotalks2810

    4 ай бұрын

    It's A FACT...GOOGLE ...ONE SON DIED HERO SAVING A DROWNING CHILD...THE OTHER SON DIED IN A DRIVE BY...PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE...

  • @tomahawk5959
    @tomahawk59592 жыл бұрын

    🕶👍

  • @leonallen2858
    @leonallen2858 Жыл бұрын

    What cemetery is he buried in?

  • @kevingrace945

    @kevingrace945

    Жыл бұрын

    I say the name of cemetery in the opening

  • @janeharrison1713
    @janeharrison17132 жыл бұрын

    His real name is Rev Roy Abram that is not Philepe in that grave Rev passed away in Detroit today 4/23/22 RIP

  • @NnamdiAzikiwe_keyamsha

    @NnamdiAzikiwe_keyamsha

    Жыл бұрын

    @@yeoldeentertainment9154 you're not the only one... Basically a Phillipe Wynn impersonator...without the glasses.... kzread.info/dash/bejne/hnuoz9eMe6XYgLw.html