Stevie Wonder'S Last Album4/20/2021
This began Wonders classical period and marked a long collaboration with TONTOs Expanding Head Band.He has recorded 23 albums and more than 30 U.S.
Superstition, Sir Duke and I Just Called To Say Love You (which topped all the charts the board it faced). He has written and produced songs for many of his labelmates and other artists as well. His music, which concerns love, peace, care and knowledge about the outside world has won him 25 Grammy Awards(the most awarded to a male solo artist). Wonder plays the drums, guitar, synthesizers, congas, and most famously the piano, harmonica, and the keyboard. His real name is Stevland Hardaway Judkins but he later dropped the name Morris and it has been his name for his life. While in the hospital his incubator was left too warm, which caused his retina to detach and resulted in severe optical nerve damage. This earned wonder his contract with Motown and he was mentored by Clarence Paul.Wonders first album, The Jazz Soul of Little Stevie, was released by Motown Records in 1962 when Wonder was 12 years old. This album was to showcase Stevies instrumental talents and contained to compositions that Wonder and Paul co-wrote - Session Number 112 and Wondering. He released his second album Tribute to Uncle Ray later that year, mostly covers of Ray Charless songs including a fresh song, Sunset. These two albums were released in reverse order of recording and failed to gain recognition.Clarence, feeling a song was coming on set Mother Thank You for release as a single, which was pulled and replaced with I Call It Pretty Music But The Old People Call It The Blues. The song almost broke into the Billboard Hot 100, appearing at 101 before dropping out of sight. The followups Little Water Boy and Contract on Love had no success, despite the latter appearing on the Uptight album. His first live album Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius reached number one in the Billboard 200 and contained the live two part single Fingertips, 2 This made him the youngest musician ever to have a number one album in the United States and the youngest artist ever to top the chart. To save him, a fresh single Up-Tight, co-written with Wonder was recorded in 1965 with reports saying it was based on a rhythm he had been humming and during recording the lyrics were sung back to Wonder as they were unavailable in Braille and that he never missed a beat. The single charted at No.1 and an album was rushed into production the following year to back it success. ![]() The albums have been compared with Marvins seen as successful, whereas Wonders seen as self-indulged, undistinguished, pretentious and overall lacking in unity and flow. Wanting to become a more independent artist, Wonder allowed his old Motown contract to expire. He then met Malcolm Cecil and Robert Margouleff who introduced him to an electric orchestra known as TONTO (The Original New Timbral Orchestra) Around the time of its release the previous year, it garnered a lot of attention. On March 3, 1972 Wonder released a new album by the name of Music of My Mind, with all songs flowing together thematically. The album spawned the singles Superwoman and Keep On Running. The album was a success with critics finding it representative of his artistic growth. Although he was separate from Motown, he would still submit his albums to his old record label, Tamla. Cecil and Margouleff helped him engineer the TONTO synthesiser and so were listed as associate producers.
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