Songs In The Key Of Life - Album
Songs In The Key Of Life (Album) by Stevie Wonder
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Stevland Hardaway Morris Né Judkins May 13 1950 Known Professionally As Stevie Wonder Is An American Singer-Songwriter Who Is Credited As A Pioneer And Influence By Musicians Across A Range Of Genres That Include Rhythm And Blues Pop Soul Gospel Funk And Jazz. A Virtual One-Man Band Wonder's Use Of Synthesizers And Other Electronic Musical Instruments During The 1970s Reshaped The Conventions Of R&B. He Also Helped Drive Such Genres Into The Album Era Crafting His LPs As Cohesive And Consistent In Addition To Socially Conscious Statements With Complex Compositions. Blind Since Shortly After His Birth Wonder Was A Child Prodigy Who Signed With Motown's Tamla Label At The Age Of 11 Where He Was Given The Professional Name Little Stevie Wonder. Wonder's Single "Fingertips" Was A No. 1 Hit On The Billboard Hot 100 In 1963 At The Age Of 13 Making Him The Youngest Artist Ever To Top The Chart. Wonder's Critical Success Was At Its Peak In The 1970s. His "classic Period" Began In 1972 With The Releases Of Music Of My Mind And Talking Book The Latter Featuring "Superstition" Which Is One Of The Most Distinctive And Famous Examples Of The Sound Of The Hohner Clavinet Keyboard. His Works Innervisions 1973 Fulfillingness' First Finale 1974 And Songs In The Key Of Life 1976 All Won The Grammy Award For Album Of The Year Making Him The Tied-Record Holder For The Most Album Of The Year Wins With Three. He Is Also The Only Artist To Have Won The Award With Three Consecutive Album Releases. Wonder Began His "commercial Period" In The 1980s He Achieved His Biggest Hits And Highest Level Of Fame Had Increased Album Sales Charity Participation High-Profile Collaborations Including Paul McCartney And Michael Jackson Political Impact And Television Appearances. Wonder Has Continued To Remain Active In Music And Political Causes. Wonder Is One Of The Best-Selling Music Artists Of All Time With Sales Of Over 100 Million Records Worldwide. He Has Won 25 Grammy Awards The Most By A Solo Artist And One Academy Award Best Original Song For The 1984 Film The Woman In Red . Wonder Has Been Inducted Into The Rhythm And Blues Music Hall Of Fame Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame And Songwriters Hall Of Fame. He Is Also Noted For His Work As An Activist For Political Causes Including His 1980 Campaign To Make Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday A Federal Holiday In The U.S. In 2009 He Was Named A United Nations Messenger Of Peace And In 2014 He Was Honored With The Presidential Medal Of Freedom. Wonder Was Born Stevland Hardaway Judkins In Saginaw Michigan On May 13 1950 The Third Of Five Children Born To Lula Mae Hardaway And The Second Of Hardaway's Two Children With Calvin Judkins. He Was Born Six Weeks Premature Which Along With The Oxygen-Rich Atmosphere In The Hospital Incubator Resulted In Retinopathy Of Prematurity A Condition In Which The Growth Of The Eyes Is Aborted And Causes The Retinas To Detach So He Became Blind.
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Stevland Hardaway Morris Né Judkins May 13 1950 Known Professionally As Stevie Wonder Is An American Singer-Songwriter Who Is Credited As A Pioneer And Influence By Musicians Across A Range Of Genres That Include Rhythm And Blues Pop Soul Gospel Funk And Jazz. A Virtual One-Man Band Wonder's Use Of Synthesizers And Other Electronic Musical Instruments During The 1970s Reshaped The Conventions Of R&B. He Also Helped Drive Such Genres Into The Album Era Crafting His LPs As Cohesive And Consistent In Addition To Socially Conscious Statements With Complex Compositions. Blind Since Shortly After His Birth Wonder Was A Child Prodigy Who Signed With Motown's Tamla Label At The Age Of 11 Where He Was Given The Professional Name Little Stevie Wonder. Wonder's Single "Fingertips" Was A No. 1 Hit On The Billboard Hot 100 In 1963 At The Age Of 13 Making Him The Youngest Artist Ever To Top The Chart. Wonder's Critical Success Was At Its Peak In The 1970s. His "classic Period" Began In 1972 With The Releases Of Music Of My Mind And Talking Book The Latter Featuring "Superstition" Which Is One Of The Most Distinctive And Famous Examples Of The Sound Of The Hohner Clavinet Keyboard. His Works Innervisions 1973 Fulfillingness' First Finale 1974 And Songs In The Key Of Life 1976 All Won The Grammy Award For Album Of The Year Making Him The Tied-Record Holder For The Most Album Of The Year Wins With Three. He Is Also The Only Artist To Have Won The Award With Three Consecutive Album Releases. Wonder Began His "commercial Period" In The 1980s He Achieved His Biggest Hits And Highest Level Of Fame Had Increased Album Sales Charity Participation High-Profile Collaborations Including Paul McCartney And Michael Jackson Political Impact And Television Appearances. Wonder Has Continued To Remain Active In Music And Political Causes. Wonder Is One Of The Best-Selling Music Artists Of All Time With Sales Of Over 100 Million Records Worldwide. He Has Won 25 Grammy Awards The Most By A Solo Artist And One Academy Award Best Original Song For The 1984 Film The Woman In Red . Wonder Has Been Inducted Into The Rhythm And Blues Music Hall Of Fame Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame And Songwriters Hall Of Fame. He Is Also Noted For His Work As An Activist For Political Causes Including His 1980 Campaign To Make Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday A Federal Holiday In The U.S. In 2009 He Was Named A United Nations Messenger Of Peace And In 2014 He Was Honored With The Presidential Medal Of Freedom. Wonder Was Born Stevland Hardaway Judkins In Saginaw Michigan On May 13 1950 The Third Of Five Children Born To Lula Mae Hardaway And The Second Of Hardaway's Two Children With Calvin Judkins. He Was Born Six Weeks Premature Which Along With The Oxygen-Rich Atmosphere In The Hospital Incubator Resulted In Retinopathy Of Prematurity A Condition In Which The Growth Of The Eyes Is Aborted And Causes The Retinas To Detach So He Became Blind.
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Published: 10 Oct 2013, 23:39
Released In The Fall Of 1976 Songs In The Key Of Life Was Stevie Wonder's Longest Most Ambitious Collection Of Songs A Two-LP Plus Accompanying EP Set That -- Just As The Title Promised -- Touched On Nearly Every Issue Under The Sun And Did It All With Ambitious Even For Him Wide-Ranging Arrangements And Some Of The Best Performances Of Wonder's Career. The Opening "Love's In Need Of Love Today" And "Have A Talk With God" Are Curiously Subdued But Stevie Soon Kicks Into Gear With "Village Ghetto Land " A Fierce Exposé Of Ghetto Neglect Set To A Satirical Baroque Synthesizer. Hot On Its Heels Comes The Torrid Fusion Jam "Contusion " A Big Brassy Hit Tribute To The Recently Departed Duke Ellington In "Sir Duke " And Another Hit This One A Grammy Winner As Well The Bumping Poem To His Childhood "I Wish." Though They Didn't Necessarily Appear In Order Songs In The Key Of Life Contains Nearly A Full Album On Love And Relationships Along With Another Full Album On Issues Social And Spiritual. Fans Of The Love Album Talking Book Can Marvel That He Sets The Bar Even Higher Here With Brilliant Material Like The Tenderly Cathartic And Gloriously Redemptive "Joy Inside My Tears " The Two-Part Smooth-And-Rough "Ordinary Pain " The Bitterly Ironic "All Day Sucker " Or Another Classic Heartbreaker "Summer Soft." Those Inclined Toward Stevie Wonder The Social-Issues Artist Had Quite A Few Songs To Focus On As Well "Black Man" Was A Bicentennial School Lesson On Remembering The Vastly Different People Who Helped Build America "Pastime Paradise" Examined The Plight Of Those Who Live In The Past And Have Little Hope For The Future "Village Ghetto Land" Brought Listeners To A Nightmare Of Urban Wasteland And "Saturn" Found Stevie Questioning His Kinship With The Rest Of Humanity And Amusingly Imagining Paradise As A Residency On A Distant Planet. If All This Sounds Overwhelming It Is Stevie Wonder Had Talent To Spare During The Mid-'70s And Instead Of Letting The Reserve Trickle Out During The Rest Of The Decade He Let It All Go With One Massive Burst. His Only Subsequent Record Of The '70s Was The Similarly Gargantuan But Largely Instrumental Soundtrack Journey Through The Secret Life Of Plants. Songs In The Key Of Life Eventually Went On To Be Certified Diamond.