By Hannah Haag
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Born on May 13, 1950 in
Saginaw Michigan
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Born premature and lost
his eye sight
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By the age of 10 Stevie
taught himself how to
play the harmonica,
piano, and drums.
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Age 11 Ronnie White discovered little Stevie
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Had an audition with Berry Gordy, the
Motown founder.
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His harmonica playing won his audience over.
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Started getting called Stevie “A Little
Wonder”
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1962 released first album “Little Stevie
Wonder the 12 year Old Genius”
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In 1963 Stevie released Fingertips Part 2
which took the public by storm.
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Hits include Uptight, With A Child’s Heart,
Blowing In The Wind, The Miracles, Tears Of A
Clown.
Bigger hits were Signed Sealed Delivered I’m
Yours, For Once In My Life, and I was Made to
Love Her.
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Contract with Motown expires.
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Branches off and makes two albums of his own.
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Wrote songs that pertained more to life.
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Song “You Haven’t Done Nothing” threw punch
at Richard Nixon.
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In 1972 Berry Gordy signed Stevie with a $13
million contract with Motown records.
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August 6, 1973 Stevie was in a
collision with a flatbed truck
that sent him into a coma.
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The Jackson 5 visited Wonder
the day after the accident.
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At a concert in November 2008
Stevie thanked God as well as
the Doctors who saved his life
in 1973.
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Stevie Wonder has won a record breaking 25 Grammys in his career.
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Youngest person to be honored by Kennedy Center.
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First blind person to receive an Academy Award with the song “I just
called to say I love you”.
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In 2008 when Obama won the presidency, Stevie performed the song
“Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I’m Yours”.
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Song off of the 1976 album Key of Life
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Wrote this song to celebrate the birth of his daughter
Aisha.
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Gregory Phillinganes played the keyboard and all other
instruments were played by Stevie Wonder himself.
0:00- Intro starts with piano and drums right on
the first beat of the measure we know right
away its in a major chord.
0:08- Verse 1 the dynamics have built from the
introduction.
0:40-Verse 2
1:13-Interlude
1:45-Verse 3 begins and then Stevie plays
harmonica, music fades
3:19-Ending
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Composed by R. Miller and O.
Murden and produced by Henry
Cosby.
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Stevie was quoted saying “Even
though it was a ballad and I
loved it as that, I felt the tune
could be done in the form of
rejoicing in meeting someone
who needed me. I was excited
and recorded it that way”.
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The Funk Brothers helped
Stevie with the music.
0:00- Introduction goes for 6 measures in a
major chord
0:17- Verse 1 begins with guitar, tambourine,
and drums making a full sound
0:34- Verse 2
0:52- Verse 3 background singers have joined
Stevie.
2:07- Verse 3 repeated
2:24- Verse 4
2:53- Ending
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First single taken from the
album Talking Book in
1972.
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“When you believe in
things you don’t
understand then you
suffer”.
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Steve Madaio- trumpet,
Trevor Laurencesaxophone other
instruments- Stevie
Wonder.
0:00-Intro has drum pickup line and is joined by a clavinet.
0:20-Verse 1 shows song is in major chord. Lines 1 and 2 rhyme and lines
3 and 4 rhyme.
1:00- Chorus begins and has building effect.
1:19-Verse 2 begins
2:00- Chorus repeats here.
2:38- Verse 3 starts again but is building up more with more ad libs by
Stevie.
3:17- Chorus
3:40-Outro was purely music with the trumpet playing a descending
scale over and over while clavinet and drums play same funky beat.
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In 1970 made the album
Signed, Sealed,
Delivered, I’m Yours.
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composed by Stevie
Wonder, Lee Garrett,,
Syreeta Wright, Lula Mae
Hardaway.
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The Funk Brothers helped
Stevie with the music.
0:00- Intro shows us it’s a duple/metered song. Stevie
screams the words “hey” a few times before verse starts.
0:08- Verse 1 starts with the rithym really steady. Guitar and
piano play as trumpet joins in. Form is ABC
0:43- Chorus begins, trumpet stands out and background
vocals join in.
1:01- Add-on with more of a talkative section
1:12- Verse 2
1:46- Chorus is same as before
2:02- Add-on another talkative sing-song voice but with a
few different words.
2:11- Outro the main phrase of the song are sang over and
over as song fades out.
2:41- Ending
Striano, Bruno. Winberg, Thomas. Gould, Kenny.
Haraguchi, Makoto. Richardson, Pete. Bertrand,
Joachim. Glowacki, Piotr.
http://www.steviewonder.org.uk/bio/biography.html
2012 A&E Television Networks.
http://biography.com/people/stevie-wonder-9536078