Ronnie Wayne Laws, born October 3, 1950 in Houston, Texas, is an American jazz
and smooth‑jazz saxophonist and singer. He began playing saxophone at 11 and
attended Stephen F. Austin State University for two years before moving to
Los Angeles in 1971, where he first performed with trumpeter Hugh Masekela and
then joined Earth, Wind & Fire, contributing saxophone and flute to the 1972
album Last Days and Time. Laws' solo career launched with Pressure Sensitive
(1975), which peaked at number 25 on the Billboard Top Soul Albums chart,
followed in 1976 by Fever reaching number 13. Su...