Raise! is the eleventh studio album by the American band Earth, Wind & Fire, released in October 1981, by ARC/Columbia Records.The album spent 11 weeks atop the Billboard Top R&B albums chart and peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 chart. Raise! has been certified Platinum in the US by the RIAA, Gold in the UK by the BPI and Gold in Canada by Music Canada.
Maurice White – lead vocals, backing vocals, kalimba, drums Fred White – drums, percussion Philip Bailey – lead vocals, backing vocals, percussion Ralph Johnson – percussion, additional backing vocals Paulinho da Costa – percussion Verdine White – bass guitar, additional backing vocals Roland Bautista – guitars, guitar solos Johnny Graham – guitars Marlo Henderson – guitars Beloyd Taylor – guitars, additional backing vocals Larry Dunn – acoustic piano, synthesizers, synthesizer programming David Foster – keyboards Bill Meyers – keyboards Greg Phillinganes – keyboards Wayne Vaughn – keyboards Wanda "Ms. Pluto" Vaughn – additional backing vocals Andrew Woolfolk – tenor saxophone Michael Boddicker – synthesizers, vocoder
The Phenix Horns Don Myrick – alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, sax solos Louis Satterfield – trombone, trombone solos Rahmlee Michael Davis – trumpet Michael Harris – trumpet
Bill Meyers – arrangements (1, 3, 7) Jerry Hey – arrangements (2, 4, 6, 8, 9) Tom Saviano – saxophones George Bohanon, Dick Hyde, Charles Loper, Lew McCreary and Bill Reichenbach Jr. – trombone Oscar Brashear, Chuck Findley, Gary Grant, Larry G. Hall and Jerry Hey – trumpet
