TOWER OF POWER

Hi !
My name is Yannick and I'm 17. I'm a piano and a guitar bass player and I would like to talk about music because I think music is very important for each human being. Music is like an international language which everybody can understand. Moreover music is a personal experience because each person feels and interprets it in a different way. Each person has a particular feeling when they hear a song. I think music could bring all the people closer on earth because it is very convivial and a good social means to integrate people. I like all kinds of music but today I would like to introduce you with band I like very much.
Their name is “Tower of Power”. Tower of power is a soul and funk band who come from Oakland, California.

In the mid-1960s, the17 year-old tenor saxophonist Emilio Castillo moved from Detroit, Michigan, to Fremont, California. He started a band called The Gotham City Crime Fighters which evolved into the Motowns, specializing in soul music. In 1968, Castillo teamed up with baritone saxophonist Stephen "Doc" Kupka and trumpet/trombone player Mic Gillett, moved to Oakland, and began to write original material. They changed the band's name to Tower of Power and began playing frequently in the Bay Area.
Tower of Power has remained active throughout the years, and is still touring. Personnel changes have been part of the history and evolution of the band; at least 60 musicians have performed, toured, and/or recorded with the band through the years, including Saturday Night Live musical director Lenny Pickett, drummer David Garibaldi, trumpet Rick Waychesko, bassist Rocco Prestia, saxophonist Richard Elliot, and bassist and BALCO founder Victor Conte whose cousin Bruce
Conte played guitar in the band as well (Bruce Conte has recently rejoined). After leaving the band, one of their original vocalists, Rick Stevens, was sentenced to life in prison on three counts of first-degree murder. The other original vocalist, Rufus Miller, performed most of the lead vocals on "East Bay Grease."