Stevie Wonder (born 1950) is one of the most cherished rhythm-and-blues singers and songwriters of his generation. The 19-time Grammy winner is known for his soulful voice and catchy tunes as well as for his commitment to political and humanitarian...

In the 1970s, as pop music fractured into a thousand competing subgenres, Stevie Wonder blended pop, jazz, soul, rock, funk, and reggae without trivializing or pastiching. As he grew from child prodigy to music's foremost ambassador, he topped...

Stevie Wonder (born Steveland Hardaway Judkins on May 13, 1950, name later changed to Steveland Hardaway Morris),[1] is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. A prominent figure of 20th century popular music, Wonder...

VINNY DiTRANI, Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 01-28-2000 STEVIE WONDER -- MCNAIR MAKES TITANS GO By VINNY DiTRANI, Staff Writer Date: 01-28-2000, Friday Section: SPORTS Edition: All Editions -- Four Star B, Three Star B, Two Star P, One Star B...

Steve Coil has managed to find time to write ambitious pieces while serving as the Washington Post's managing editor. Now he's working on a book about U.S. intelligence and Osama bin Laden. Can he do that and reach his goal of building a...

Stevie Wonder is no stranger to the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival but has never headlined the event — until now.Wonder debuts on the second weekend of the 2008 Jazz Fest that will also headline other festival first-timers Billy Joel, Sheryl Crow and Louisiana...

Stevie Wonder has not performed at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in 35 years, and has never headlined the event. Organizers want to change that this year.Wonder was scheduled to headline the second weekend of the 2008 Jazz Fest along with Billy Joel,...

Stevie's songs of [his earliest songwriting] period undoubtedly have the Motown stamp on them, some of them also clearly have his special touch. With few exceptions, even the most canned lyrics and monotonous bass line and percussion can soar when the song is performed by that swelling, feeling voice. Of this genre, I particularly like Signed, Sealed, And Delivered…. It is one of the all-time great dancing tunes, and Stevie manages to imbue the ordinary lyrics with immense feeling and life. Th...

The first notes of Songs in the Key of Life waft up from a choir of humming colored folks who might be refugees from Vincente Minnelli's Cabin in the Sky. Their music is mellifluous, placid, and elevated; it seems to epitomize (as black critic Donald Bogle wrote of Cabin in the Sky) "ersatz Negro folk culture … passed off as the real thing." The catch is that this ersatz culture may be the real thing…. Fallacious or not, questions of intention arise immediately, as they so...

Stevie Wonder is a fool. I state it that way—baldly, without qualification—because the qualifications are so obvious that they tempt us away from the truth. I'm not saying he's a complete fool; in fact, I'm not saying he isn't a genius. But you can't deny that if you were to turn on a phone-in station and hear Stevie rapping about divine vibrations and universal brotherhood, especially with that inevitable dash of astrology, you would not be impressed with hi...