From
12-year-old multi-instrumentalist prodigy to groundbreaking adult
songwriter and producer, Stevie Wonder is one of the handful of
pop musicians who just about everybody agrees is possessed of
genius. His 1960s recordings were great straight-up
R&B, but
his visionary '70s albums took pop and
R&B where they'd never
been before, incorporating electronics, reggae, and incredibly
sophisticated melodic and harmonic development. |