Brenda Russell: My Epic Collaboration with Maurice White & Earth, Wind & Fire | Mick Unplugged

My biggest collaboration too. Maurice White, who was unbelievable. He was like royalty working with him. He was gentle and a gentleman, very gifted and very encouraging to a young artist, as I was when I met him and I collaborated with them. And David Foster, who is the wonderful David Foster, brought me to them, to Earth, Wind and Fire because he was working with them. He wrote after the Love Is Gone, killer song of all time. He wrote it with them and he introduced me to them and Maurice because they wanted someone to write lyrics for them. And it was a very learning experience because Earth, Wind and Fire, when they gave me the songs, everything was there except the lyrics and the melody. So I was like, oh my God, I've never written a song collaborated with the horns and everything was on there except this. And I was like, whoa, this is different. So it was a real challenge for me. But I rose to the challenge, I think.