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Stevie Wonder - "You got my future in your hands"
Stevie
Wonder, vocals, piano, keyboard
Stevie
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Master
Blaster 3:05
Higher Ground 2:46
A Time To Love 2:38
So What's the Fuss 4:44
Signed Sealed Delivered 2:52
Shelter in the Rain 4:24
Superstition 4:03
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Stevie Wonder (real name: Steveland Hardaway Judkins
(he later changed his last name to Morris, which was his mother's married
name), born on May 13, 1950 in Saginaw, Michigan) is an American singer,
songwriter, producer, musician, humanitarian and social activist. Stevie
Wonder, blind nearly from birth, became one of the most successful and
well-known artists on the Motown label, with nine #1 hits to his name
and album sales totaling more than 72 million units. Stevie Wonder has
recorded several critically acclaimed albums and hit singles, and writing
and producing songs for many of his labelmates and outside artists as
well. A multi-instrumentalist, Stevie Wonder plays the drums, guitar,
synthesizers, congas, and most famously the piano, harmonica and the keyboard.
Steveland Judkins was born prematurely, and became blind after being exposed
to excessive oxygen levels in his incubator. Wonder learned to play a
number of instruments, most notably the piano, congas, and harmonica,
at an early age, and was proclaimed a child prodigy. In 1962, at the age
of eleven, Stevie Wonder was signed by Berry Gordy to the Motown label
as Little Stevie Wonder.
Little Stevie Wonder's first major hit came in 1963 with "Fingertips
(Pt. 2)", a live recording from a Motortown Revue performance. The
song, featuring Stevie Wonder on vocals, congas, and harmonica, was a
#1 hit on the US pop charts and launched him into the public consciousness.
Dropping the "Little" from his moniker, Stevie Wonder went on
to have a number of other hits during the mid-1960s, including "Uptight
(Everything's Alright)", "With a Child's Heart", and "Blowin'
in the Wind", a Bob Dylan cover which was one of the first songs
to reflect Wonder's social consciousness. He also began to work in the
Motown songwriting department, composing songs both for himself and his
labelmates.
By 1970, Stevie Wonder had scored more major hits, including "My
Cherie Amour" and "Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours)".
Besides being one of the first songs on which Stevie Wonder serves as
both songwriter and producer, "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" is
one of the main showcases for his backup group Wonderlove, a trio which
included at various times Minnie Riperton, Deniece Williams, Lynda Laurence,
and Syreeta Wright, whom Wonder married on September 14, 1970. Wonder
and Wright divorced eighteen months later, but they continued to collaborate
on musical projects.
Besides Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder was one of the few Motown stars to
contest the label's factory-like operation methods: artists, songwriters,
and producers were usually kept in specialized collectives with little
or no overlap, and artists had no creative control. After a number of
arguments with Berry Gordy over allowing Wonder to have his own creative
control, Wonder allowed his Motown contract to expire, and left the label
on his twenty-first birthday in 1971. His final album before his departure
was Where I'm Coming From, which Gordy had strongly fought against releasing.
Stevie Wonder independently recorded and released two albums, which he
used as a bargaining tool while negotiating with Motown. Eventually, the
label agreed to his demands for full creative control and the rights to
his own songs, and Stevie Wonder returned to Motown in 1972 with Music
of My Mind, an album which is considered a classic of the era.
Unlike most previous artist LPs on Motown, which usually consisted of
a collection singles, b-sides, and covers, Stevie Wonder's Music of My
Mind was an actual LP, full-length artistic statement. The critical and
commercial successes Talking Book and Innervisions continued Stevie Wonder's
critical and popular acclaim, addressing more and more political issues
as his music progressed. Talking Book featured the #1 pop and R&B
hit "Superstition", which is one of the most distinctive examples
of the sound of the clavinet. (Wonder performed "Superstition"
on the children's television show Sesame Street in 1973.) Wonder's artistic
growth continued on Fulfillingness' First Finale (1974) and his magnum
opus, Songs in the Key of Life (1976).
Stevie Wonder's next album was a soundtrack album for the film Journey
Through the Secret Life of Plants. The album was panned at the time of
its release but has come to be regarded as a classic album. Hotter Than
July (1980) become Wonder's first platinum selling album, and its single
"Happy Birthday" was a successful vehicle for his campaign to
establish Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday as a national holiday. The
album also included "Master Blaster (Jammin')", his tribute
to Bob Marley, and the sentimental ballad, "Lately", which was
later covered by '90s R&B act Jodeci.
In 1982, Stevie Wonder released an introspective of his '70s work with
Original Musiquarium and included three more hit singles in his catalogue,
including the ten-minute funk classic "Do I Do" (which included
legendary jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie), "That Girl" (one
of the year's biggest singles to chart on the R&B side) and "Ribbon
in the Sky", one of his many classic compositions.
1984 saw the release of Stevie Wonder's soundtrack album for The Woman
in Red. The lead single, "I Just Called to Say I Love You",
was a #1 pop and R&B hit in the US, and is Motown's biggest-selling
single ever in the United Kingdom. Wonder's album was placed 13th in the
all-time list of best-selling singles in the UK issued in 2002, and it
won an Academy Award for "Best Song" in 1985. The following
year's In Square Circle featured the #1 pop hit "Part-Time Lover".
After 1987's Characters LP, Stevie Wonder continued to release new material,
albeit at a slower pace. He recorded a soundtrack album for Spike Lee's
film Jungle Fever in 1991, and released both Conversation Peace and the
live album Natural Wonder during the same decade. In December 1999, Stevie
Wonder announced that he was interested in pursuing an intraocular retinal
prosthesis to partially restore his sight.
Wonder's first new album in 10 years, A Time 2 Love is scheduled to be
released on June 14, 2005.
Besides creating his own material, Stevie Wonder has written and produced
a number of songs for other artists. Among his most significant compositions
or co-compositions are "The Tears of a Clown" by Smokey Robinson
& The Miracles, "It's a Shame" by The Spinners, " "I
Can't Help It" by Michael Jackson and "You Are My Heaven"
by Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway. He has also collaborated with Quincy
Jones, Barbara Streisand, B.B. King, The Supremes, The Temptations, Dionne
Warwick, Julio Iglesias, and former Musical Youth lead singer Dennis Seaton.
Stevie Wonder's success as a multi-instrumentalist and socially conscious
musical performer was significantly influential to both R&B and pop
music. Among the musicians and performers who list Wonder as one of their
major influences are Mariah Carey, India.Arie,
Musiq Soulchild, Alicia Keys, John Legend,
Jay Kay, and the members of Jodeci and Dru Hill.
Stevie Wonder has received 22 Grammy Awards and one Academy Award over
the course of his career. In 1989, Wonder was inducted to the Rock &
Roll Hall of Fame. Wonder is also an inductee to the Songwriter's Hall
of Fame. Stevie also received Kennedy Center Honors in 1999, and was awarded
the highest honor to be received at the Billboard Music Award for the
Century Award in 2004.
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