YAMAHA SPONSORS STEVE WINWOOD PERFORMANCE AT NSCA EXPOJAM

BUENA PARK, CA (March 8, 2004)—Blues master, Pop icon, singer, songwriter and new Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame inductee Steve Winwood performed at the NSCA Systems Integration Expo® opening night ExpoJam!, March 18, at the Las Vegas Hilton. The show was sponsored by Yamaha Corporation of America and NSCA.

Steve Winwood

"It was an honor to have Steve Winwood kick off this year's NSCA Expo," states Larry Italia, general manager, Yamaha Commercial Audio. "His music is timeless, and we were extremely happy to have had him perform for the commercial audio industry."

A longtime Yamaha artist, Winwood's career has spanned decades and touched many musical genres, defying any single definition. At age fifteen, he was already playing in the blues clubs of Birmingham, England with John Lee Hooker and Memphis Slim when he joined the R&B combo The Spencer Davis Group, which spawned a series of unforgettable radio standards, including "Gimme Some Lovin'" and "I'm a Man."

Winwood went on to collaborate with Blind Faith and later, Traffic. His highly successful solo albums include Arc of a Diver, Roll With It and Back in the High Life, which earned the coveted GRAMMY® for Record of the Year. He continues to blur the musical boundaries with his latest effort, About Time.

For more information, write Yamaha Corporation of America, Commercial Audio Systems Division, P.O. Box 6600, Buena Park, CA 90622; telephone (714) 522-9011; e-mail infostation@yamaha.com or visit www.yamaha.com/proaudio.

For more information and registration on the 2004 NSCA Systems Integration Expo®, visit www.nscaexpo.org.