On the standard of the professional musician, the politician and the athlete, Stevie worked as an eagletarian and
mentor whose careful direction, today, awakens in the lives of a host of highly sucessful Americans. Among them
Luciano Pavoratti, Barack Obama, 1968 Olympic medalists, Tommy Smith and John Carlos, Stevie Ray Vaughn, George Michael, Mary
J Blidge and Janet Jackson, Ashanti, Ken Lihai, Utada HIkaru and Boyz 2 Men and many, many others.
With the support of Wonderlove, which included back-up musicans Minnie Ripperton, Angela Winbish and Deniece Williams,
Stevie once exchanged treble clefts and motets in the key of platnum style sound with producer, Mickey Stevenson and indulged
the sophistication in the classical orchestration of George Gershwin, warranting iterative recognition from the
Grammy orgaization and numerous other award academies.
9 of 29 Stevie Wonder At Radio City Music Hall Mandela Day July
18, 2009 New York City.
Giving vent to his past experiences, even those most profound of reverence and lyrical expertise
are issued the creative license to digress and are, however, frequently changed, being edified by spirit
through a need to encounter growth. Stevie Wonder, at one time, sang of the evils in the practice of superstition
and spoke of a 'Pastime Paradise' that he, during a course of time in life, may have appeared
fixed upon; conjoined, possibly, in the harmony of dissonance. Proving that this conflict of spritual conviction had
been broken, however, Stevie exercised his ability to choose. Then, when life became too hard, Stevie would
give a testament to a forward thinking choice--that even he would 'Have a Talk With God'.
In his own right, in this apportionment of his world, his music commands audience and Stevie Wonder takes
( ) to the stage in stellar high light. Though, while the spotlight, yet, shines, it is not the
bright lights and the Hollywood action that captures his heart, but the light that shines in the eyes and the lives of Stevie's
children that tugs at his sense of aesthetic import.
"...been wasting most of
thier days in remembrance of ignorance... so... dispraised...how many of them are you and me...?...consolation, disapation, race relations, dispensation, segregation, isolation, exploitation... mutilation,
miscreation, confirmation to the evils of the world..."
-S.Wonder
Aisha, now a vocalist, is the first
among the brightly lit stars which bring Stevie's heart full circle. The song containing her name at birth,
'Isn't She Lovely,' was the vehicle Stevie drove home to describe his first new-borne light, Aisha, doing so to
a background of Africa-centric music, he defined her name as meaning 'life' as fans agreed in praise.
Married twice, Stevie's
relationship with Syreeta Wright lasted for 2 years, while his second marriage, since 2001 has kept him sacredly faithful
to Kai Milla Moriis. Kai and Stevie brought to thier union the lights of Kailand, Mandla kadja and Carl Steveland Morris.
To Melody McCulley was born Stevie's 4th and 5th children, Mumtaz and Sophia Morris. Aisha's mother Yolanda Simmons
bore two other children, Aisha's direct siblings, Keita and Kwame.
Women in Stevie's life had always played a staring role. Stevie attributes the matriarch of his childhood with
setting his life on a right vourse, in the direction required for him to have achieved his present success. His mother, Lula
Morris, he exalts as the one person who layed for him the foundation for love.
In the glow of preeminence, among his peers Stevie Wonder is a mentor with a following. From Hollywood
to Harlem, Stevie is the man; the musician, the ministrant, the miestro who walks the talk with such incomparable
flounce, he may be envied by many. It is almost without question that the likes of an antagonist, in pursuit of
ill-fated feats will be stopped, persuaded of love given as much as a listen to the wonder of it all.
"just as hate knows love's a cure, you can rest your mind assured...until
the day is night and night becomes the day...always...until the day the earth starts
turning right from left, until you dream of life and life becomes a dream...I'll be loving you forever...always"
Summarily, it might be unlikely to find one word by which to describe Stevie Wonder. If, however, anyone were to
ask why it is that I can listen to his music, often the same few tunes, repeatedly; i.e., 'Songs In The Key Of Life,' my only stanchion would be quite simple, " He is a Wonder... Bless his name!"