Drummer Fred White, who backed up his brothers Maurice and Verdine White in the Grammy-winning ensemble Earth, Wind & Fire, has died. He was 67. Verdine White, a vocalist,.
Drummer Fred White, who backed up his brothers Maurice and Verdine White in the Grammy-winning ensemble Earth, Wind & Fire, has died. He was 67. Verdine White, a vocalist, percussionist, and bass player for the band, posted Sunday on his Instagram account that his younger brother Frederick Eugene « Freddie » White had died. He didn’t say how or where his brother died, the AP reports. Fred « joins our brothers Maurice, Monte, and Ronald in heaven and is now drumming with the angels, » he wrote. Band founder Maurice White died at the age of 74 in 2016.
