"Keep Your Head to the Sky" is a song by R&B band Earth, Wind & Fire

Earth, Wind & Fire

Earth, Wind & Fire is an American soul and R&B band formed in Chicago, Illinois, in 1969 by Verdine and Maurice White. Also known as EWF, the band has won six Grammy Awards and four American Music Awards. They have been inducted into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Vocal Group Hall of...

 which was written by Maurice White

Maurice White

Maurice White is a Grammy Award–winning American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, arranger. He is the older brother of Verdine White and Fred White and the leader and founder of the band Earth, Wind & Fire...

 and produced by Joe Wissert

Joe Wissert

Joe Wissert is an American record producer. His credits include albums by artists such as Earth, Wind & Fire, Helen Reddy, The J. Geils Band, Gordon Lightfoot, Boz Scaggs, The Sinceros and The Turtles....

. Included on the band's 1973 album, Head to the Sky

Head to the Sky

Head to the Sky is the 4th studio album by Earth, Wind & Fire, released in 1973. Their second album on Columbia Records, Head to the Sky was EWF's first commercially successful album and it has been certified platinum in the United States for sales of over a million copies...

it It was released as a single in the same year.

"Keep Your Head to the Sky" peaked at number 52 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart and number 23 on the Black Singles Chart.

The song was also sampled on the track, "Guidance" by Gang Starr

Gang Starr

Gang Starr was an influential East Coast hip hop duo that consisted of the late MC Guru and DJ/producer DJ Premier. Their style combined elements of New York jazz and hip hop.-Background:...

 acclaimed rapper Guru

Guru (rapper)

Keith Edward Elam , better known by his stage name Guru, was an American emcee and member of the hip-hop duo Gang Starr, along with DJ Premier. He was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts...

 featuring Amel Larrieux

Amel Larrieux

Amel Larrieux is an American soul and R&B singer-songwriter and keyboardist. Larrieux rose to fame in the mid 1990s as a founding member of the duo Groove Theory along with Bryce Wilson. After leaving the group in 1999, she released her debut solo album Infinite Possibilities the following year on...

 on 2000's Guru's Jazzmatazz, Vol. 3: Streetsoul.

Chart positions

Chart (1973)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Pop Singles Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...	52
U.S. Billboard Black Singles	23