By Hannah Haag

 Born on May 13, 1950 in Saginaw Michigan  Born premature and lost his eye sight  By the age of 10 Stevie taught himself how to play the harmonica, piano, and drums.

 Age 11 Ronnie White discovered little Stevie  Had an audition with Berry Gordy, the Motown founder.  His harmonica playing won his audience over.  Started getting called Stevie “A Little Wonder”

 1962 released first album “Little Stevie Wonder the 12 year Old Genius”  In 1963 Stevie released Fingertips Part 2 which took the public by storm.

 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.

 Contract with Motown expires.  Branches off and makes two albums of his own.  Wrote songs that pertained more to life.  Song “You Haven’t Done Nothing” threw punch at Richard Nixon.  In 1972 Berry Gordy signed Stevie with a $13 million contract with Motown records.

 August 6, 1973 Stevie was in a collision with a flatbed truck that sent him into a coma.  The Jackson 5 visited Wonder the day after the accident.  At a concert in November 2008 Stevie thanked God as well as the Doctors who saved his life in 1973.

 Stevie Wonder has won a record breaking 25 Grammys in his career.  Youngest person to be honored by Kennedy Center.  First blind person to receive an Academy Award with the song “I just called to say I love you”.  In 2008 when Obama won the presidency, Stevie performed the song “Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I’m Yours”.

 Song off of the 1976 album Key of Life  Wrote this song to celebrate the birth of his daughter Aisha.  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

 Composed by R. Miller and O. Murden and produced by Henry Cosby.  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”.  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

 First single taken from the album Talking Book in  “When you believe in things you don’t understand then you suffer”.  Steve Madaio- trumpet, Trevor Laurence- saxophone 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.

 In 1970 made the album Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I’m Yours.  composed by Stevie Wonder, Lee Garrett,, Syreeta Wright, Lula Mae Hardaway.  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

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