Stevie Wonder is one of the most notable popular music figures of the second half of the 20th century.
He is one of the most successful songwriters and musicians.
Virtually a one-man band during his peak years, his use of synthesizers and further electronic musical instruments during the 1970s helped expand the sound of R&B.
Not many knows what Stevie Wonder looks like without glasses on and recently, pictures of Stevie without sunglasses resurfaced and immediately began going viral.
Stevie is also credited as one of the artists who helped drive R&B into the album era, by crafting his LPs as cohesive, consistent statements with complex sounds.
His “classic period”, which culminated in 1976, was marked by his funky keyboard style, personal control of production, and use of integrated series of songs to make concept albums.
In 1979, Wonder used Computer Music Inc.’s early music sampler, the Melodian, on his soundtrack album Stevie Wonder’s Journey Through “The Secret Life of Plants”.
This was his first digital recording and one of the earliest popular albums to use the technology, which Wonder used for all subsequent recordings.
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