Stevie Wonder

See also: Wonder (homonymy)

Stevie Wonder , of her true name Steveland Judkins (then Steveland Morris after the second marriage of his/her mother), is a song writer and performer black American, born the May 13rd 1950 with Saginaw, Michigan. It is blind since its early childhood. Stevie Wonder sold more than 72 million discs and received twenty-two Grammy awards during a career which extends now over a half-century.

Biography

Beginnings

Stevie Wonder controls many instruments as of her childhood, in particular the Piano, the Harmonica like various percussion instruments. He is discovered by the type-setter Ronnie White, then member of the group The Miracles at the sides of Smokey Robinson. Wonder records for the label Tamla Motown as of the eleven years age, its first album is published under the name of Little Stevie Wonder in 1962. It quickly obtains its first success with individual the Fingertips (Pt. 2) , its compositions appear on its own discs like on those of the other artists of the Motown label. It starts to ensure itself the role of producer on the album Signed, Sealed and Delivered left in 1970, who contains the tube My Cherie Amour . To its majority in 1971, it enters in conflict with its label and obtains a complete artistic freedom.

Artistic blooming

The album Music off My Mind left in 1972 is entirely carried out by the artist (composition, song, instruments, production), who starts to use off Synthétiseur S. Music My Mind is not composed of a continuation the individual ones, like its preceding albums, but conceived like a coherent whole. In the following albums, Talking Book and Innervisions , Wonder approaches social topics in songs like Big Brother or Living For The City , but continuous to meet success with for example the piece Superstition , which reaches the first place of the hit parades in the categories Pop and Rhythm and Blues, or the ballade You Are The Sunshine Of My Life .

The double album Songs in the Key off Life , left in 1976, contains the hits I Wish and Sir Duke (recorded in homage to Duke Ellington), which is at the head classified classification of the best sales in the United States. In 1980 the song Happy birthday extracted the album Hotter Than July militates for the one bank holiday institution national in memory of the reverend Martin Luther King. On the same album it pays homage to the singer jamaïcain Bob Marley with the title Master Blaster (Jammin') . In 1982 Stevie Wonder interprets Ebony and Ivory in company of the ex-Beatle Paul McCartney, the song is reproduced on the album Tug Of War of McCartney and is classified first of the British charts. With I Just Call To Say I Coils You , made up for the film the Girl in red ( The Woman in Red ), Stevie Wonder gains the Oscar of the best original song; it also obtains its first number one in the United Kingdom as an artist solo, the title being classified at the head charts during six weeks of sharpened in 1984. It appears among the twenty best sales of the history in the United Kingdom. The following year Stevie Wonder belongs to the collective of forty-four artists baptized the USA for Africa which interprets the caritative song We Are the World , and carries out the album Square Circle which contains new a hit, Share-Time To coil . In 1991 it writes the original soundtrack of the film Jungle Fever realized by Spike Lee. The album has Time To Love leaves in 2005, ten years after its predecessor, Conversation Peace .

Recognition

Less active since the end of the year 1980, Stevie Wonder receives nevertheless a multitude of price; these years are those of the recognition. In 1987, he sings a duet with Michael Jackson present on the album Bad, in the title Just Good Friends . He is established with the Rock' Roll Hall off Famed in 1989, Grammy award rewarding the unit for his career (Lifetime Achievement Award) is decreed to him in 1996. Grammy Hall off Famed award is decreed with individual the Superstition in 1998, the albums Talking Book and Innervisions is preceded the following year, like Songs In The Key Of Life and individual the You Are The Sunshine Of My Life in 2002. During the year 2006, he collaborates with certain rappeurs such as Busta Rhymes or Snoop Doggy Dogg

Discography

Albums studio

  • The Drunk Jazz Off Little Stevie (1962, Motown) -
  • Tribute to Uncle Ray (1962, Motown) -
  • Recorded Live! - The 12 Year Old Genius (1963, Motown) US charts: #1
  • With has Song In My Heart (1963, Motown) -
  • Stevie At the Beach (1964, Motown) -
  • Uptight (Everything' S Alright) (1966, Motown) US charts: #32
  • Down to Earth (1966, Motown) US charts: #92
  • I Was Made to Love Her (1967, Motown) US charts: #45
  • Someday At Christmas (1967, Motown) US charts: #81
  • For Ounce In My Life (1968, Motown) US charts: #50
  • My Cherie Amour (1969, Motown) US charts: #34
  • Signed, Sealed and Delivered (1970, Motown) US charts: #25
  • Where I' m Comin' From (1971, Motown) US charts: #62
  • Music off My Mind (1972, Motown) US charts: #21
  • Talking Book (1972, Motown) US charts: #3
  • Innervisions (1973, Motown) US charts: #4
  • Fulfillingness' First Finale (1974, Motown) US charts: #1
  • Songs in the Key off Life (1976, Motown) US charts: #1
  • Journey Through The Secret Life off Seedlings (1979, Motown) US charts: #4
  • Hotter Than July (1980, Motown) US charts: #3
  • In Public garden Circle (1985, Motown) US charts: #5
  • Characters (1987, Motown) US charts: #17
  • Conversation Peace (1995, Motown) US charts: #16
  • has Time to Love (2005, Motown) US charts: #5

Compilations and various

  • Recorded Live - The Twelve-year-old-genius (concert, 1963, Motown)
  • Greatest Hits (compilation, 1968, Motown)
  • Eivets Rednow featuring Alfie (instrumental under the pseudonym of Eivets Rednow, 1968, Motown)
  • Live In Persson (concert, 1970, Motown)
  • Stevie Wonder Live (concert, 1970, Motown)
  • Stevie Wonder' S Greatest Hits vol. 2 (compilation, 1971, Motown)
  • Looking Back (a.k.a. Anthology) (compilation, 1977, Motown)
  • Stevie Wonder' S Journey Through the Secret Life Off Seedlings (original soundtrack, 1979, Motown)
  • Stevie Wonder' S Original Musiquarium I (compilation, 1982, Motown)
  • The Woman In Red (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (original soundtrack, 1984, Motown)
  • Jungle Fever (Music from the Movie) (original soundtrack, 1991, Motown)
  • Natural Wonder (double album in concert, 1995, Motown)
  • Song Review - has Greatest Hits Collection (compilation, 1996, Motown)
  • Balad Collection (compilation, 1999, Motown)
  • At the Close Off has Century (box four discs, 1999, Motown)
  • The Definitive Collection (compilation, 2002, Motown)
  • The iTunes Stevie Wonder Boxset (compilation iTunes, 2005, Motown)
  • Number Ones (compilation, 2007, Motown)

Sources

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